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Twin Cities PBS | Redesigning Minnesota's State Flag

Two high school students convince Rep. Peter Fischer to redesign Minnesota’s State Flag. 

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City flags are having a moment – everywhere but Minneapolis

By Richard Chin | Star Tribune O, say can you see … the Minneapolis city flag? Odds are, you didn’t know Minneapolis has a flag, much less seen it gallantly streaming. Although Minnesota’s biggest city has had a city flag for more than 60 years, residents haven’t exactly rallied around it. It’s rarely seen in public. In the few places it has been displayed, it often has flown upside down or with…

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Minneapolis Star | Is Bad Art Good History?

Minneapolis Star | Is Bad Art Good History?

By Austin C. Wehrwein of the Editorial/Opinion Staff The Minnesota Board of Human Rights is on the warpath against the Great Seal of the State of Minnesota, re-opening thereby a 119-year-old legal dispute. 1858 Minnesota State Seal (courtesy Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State) What worries the board about the seal, which is a little like a state trademark, is that it “depicts warfare”…

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Saint Paul Pioneer Press | Flag of a Different Color

Saint Paul Pioneer Press | Flag of a Different Color

Saint Paul Pioneer Press | Features August 14, 2001 It seems many Minnesotans agree with flag scholars who recently declared our state’s flag one of the nation’s ugliest.  In response to that troubling national report, the Pioneer Press asked readers to submit their designs for a new, improved flag …. We thank all who submitted designs.  Here are the winners — one best overall, plus winners in…

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Worthington Daily Globe | That Old Flag

Worthington Daily Globe | That Old Flag

Worthington Daily Globe | Editorial March 21, 1989 There is not a school child in southwest Minnesota who can draw the Minnesota flag, freehand. We had better amend that.  There are notably gifted children living in southwest Minnesota.  But there are few children in Minnesota, few adults in Minnesota, few people anywhere who could make a drawing of the state flag. It’s a complex thing.  The…

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Mankato Free-Press | We Salute the New, Unique Flag Design

Mankato Free-Press | We Salute the New, Unique Flag Design

Mankato Free-Press | Editorial March 23, 1989 Do you know what Minnesota’s state flag looks like?  Don’t be embarrassed if you don’t; relative few people do.  And that’s because it’s fairly undistinguished, “generic” even.  And that’s why the proposed new flag design, unfurled before a state House committee last week, deserves serious consideration. Minnesota’s banner has waved in anonymity since…

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Rochester Post-Bulletin | Time for New State Flag

Rochester Post-Bulletin | Time for New State Flag

Rochester Post-Bulletin | Editorial March 12, 2002 A good case can be made for designing a new state flag for Minnesota.  The main reason is that the existing state flag, adopted in 1893, is poorly designed, according to flag design experts.  It lacks focus, is too complex and uses symbols that are not relevant to 21st century Minnesotans.  The flag consists of a rectangular blue field with the…

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Minnesota Should Have a Flag Worth Waving

Minnesota Should Have a Flag Worth Waving

Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Editorial, March 21, 1989) From a distance of 100 yards how many Minnesotans can distinguish their state flag from, say, Nebraska’s?  From 100 feet?  Anyone want to try for 10 feet? It’s not that Minnesota has the most prosaic flag of all 50 states.  It’s that it shares the distinction with more than a dozen others, each content mainly to sew a copy of its state seal in…

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Speaking of State Flags...

Speaking of State Flags…

The Star Tribune recently voiced Minnesotan’s objections to official display of the Confederate flag at South Carolina’s statehouse. Minnesotans, however, should look first at our own state flag. After all, its history is also marred by bigotry. Among other things, Minnesota’s flag features our state seal. The latter shows a pioneer farming and an Indian riding away on horseback. It was created…

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The Origin of the Minnesota State Flag: A Theory

The Origin of the Minnesota State Flag: A Theory

By William M. Becker The history of Minnesota’s state seal has been I the object of considerable research over the years. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the origins of the state flag. This lacuna is surprising, not only because the flag is an important symbol, but because its obscure origins raise some interesting questions. Why, for example, did Minnesota’s first official flag have a…

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Star Tribune | As long as we're discussing flags, what about Minnesota's?

Star Tribune | As long as we’re discussing flags, what about Minnesota’s?

It, too, may fail to reflect current sensibilities. The current interest in the removal of the Confederate battle flag from public displays and store shelves provides an excellent opportunity to examine what the Minnesota state flag represents. The images on the flag are interpreted by state documents as innocuous symbols of the state’s history. A critical examination of what the flag is saying,…

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