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See Ya, Christopher Ingraham!
Some sad news for Minnesota media today as Christopher Ingraham announced on social media that he’ll be skedaddling from his northwestern Minnesotan home and returning with his family to upstate New York, to be closer to the rest of their family.
Ingraham made local news 10 years ago when he called Red Lake County, Minnesota, “the absolute worst place to live in America” in the Washington Post. Riled up Minnesotans invited him to visit, and he liked it so much he moved his family here, inspiring national news coverage. (You can read the whole tale in his book If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now.) In his time here Ingraham was diagnosed with (and recovered from) lymphoma and started working at the Minnesota Reformer.
So now, having proved his point that outstate Minnesota is indeed habitable, Ingraham’s done with us? Here’s what he had to say when we asked:…