Intern | Data team

Salma Loum is an intern with the Star Tribune's data team through the Rebele Journalism Internship program at Stanford University.

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Has pandemic lockdown led to more domestic violence in Minnesota?

When Minnesota's stay-at-home period started at the end of March, domestic violence advocates feared victims would be in greater danger. Here's what we've learned.


For St. Paul families, city help was welcome but short-lived

An emergency cash assistance program for families and businesses that lost income as a result of COVID-19 drew nearly 5,300 applications from families, less than a quarter of whom got a check.


They won St. Paul's emergency virus aid lottery. Then their businesses were hit in rioting.

Some St. Paul businesses that won lottery for COVID-19 grants fell victim to looters