The state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has awarded a southeastern Minnesota city a $1 million grant to support the state’s first pig-to-human transplant center.

Warfa has helped lead the effort to rethink DEED’s grant-making and held meetings across the state to get feedback and help patch up relationships. DEED’s first changes were aimed at making ...

The Minnesota Legislature in 2021 authorized DEED to launch the $18 million grant program with a requirement that the department equitably distribute the total funds between the metropolitan area ...

The BDPI grant program supports communities outside the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Under the program, DEED awards 50% of eligible capital costs for qualifying public infrastructure projects ...

Later this month DEED will open applications for another round of $50 million of broadband grant money.