Others wished there were more literal depictions of Minnesota icons, like designs of the state bird, a loon, or a walleye. Joe, a 37-year-old St. Cloud resident said the new flag sets itself apart ...

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opens new tab that he changed the state’s flag to resemble that of Somalia. “The old flag of Minnesota violated every principle, opens new tab of good flag design,” Brian Cham, a North ...

Minnesota's likely new state flag features an eight-pointed North Star on a dark blue ... who live more in the state's north. The old seal, which featured a barefoot white farmer and a spear-wielding ...

Ultimately, the commission voted to choose 24-year-old Minnesota resident Andrew ... inspired by the simplicity and popularity of state flags like New Mexico, Colorado, and Tennessee, all of ...

Jesse Grabow of the Detroit Lakes headquarters of the Minnesota ... changes in the state patrol nomenclature as a result of legislation approved by the progressives in the state assembly and ...

Utah, Georgia and Mississippi are already updating their flags, and Minnesota adopted its new flag in May. Their old state banner looked like someone had set a white dinner plate on a blue carpet ...

The Illinois Flag Commission began accepting submissions of new flag designs last week, opening up a process that could ...

Andrew Prekker, a 24-year-old Minnesotan artist ... Barring an unlikely rejection by the state legislature, the new flag will become official on 11 May - Minnesota's Statehood Day.