(St. Paul MN-) At 7 tonight, KSTP TV will be airing a documentary called “A Precarious State” about the decline of The State of Minnesota and The Twin Cities Metro area. The film was put together by former KARE 11 anchor and journalist Rick Kupchella, who says he has noticed Minnesota going down in things like wages and test scores and going up in violent crime over the past 5 or 6 years…
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…Kupchella says during the hour-long documentary he uses data that demonstrates the decline of Minnesota in many areas. For example, since the pandemic, he says the metro’s payroll employment has fallen from 12th or 13th highest in the country to 48th out of 49 metro areas that were measured. Regarding crime, Kupchella says Minneapolis lost 1/3rd of it’s police officers after the death of George Floyd and the subsequent riots, and violent crime is on the rise…
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…Kupchella says it’s an extension of the city being unable to police itself. He says “A Precarious State” is about the whole state, but most of the focus is on the decline of the metro, specifically Minneapolis. Kuchella says while KSTP will be airing the documentary, it will also be launched on his website “precariousstate.com”
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