Eli Black knows what it’s like to have his world flipped upside down in an instant, from daily runs to daily chemo drips.

Finding romance during the COVID-19 pandemic was a challenge for many, but not for Maggie Garnsey. Garnsey met her now wife, Alli, at a bar a few days before the COVID-19 lockdown sent everyone home.

Minnesota’s fertility rate is following national trends downward. It could spell trouble for the economy and state budget, ...