WINONA, Minn. – Mayor Mark Peterson is worried that online learning will sap Winona of college students whose local presence is essential for the city to maintain eligibility for current levels of federal funding. For decades college students counted toward the city’s population, but with the COVID-19 crisis, Winona State and Saint Mary’s a have shifted to online courses. Many students aren’t in town now for the once-every-20 years census. In a Friday conference call Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., suggested the colleges encourage students to fill out the census as if they were living where they
