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Lake Superior shipwreck found 70 years after sinking
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- Lake Superior shipwreck found 70 years after sinking
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- 48 minutes ago
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- The freighter Henry Steinbrenner sank in a Lake Superior storm in 1953 had a 31-person crew. It sank south of Isle Royale.
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- Talking Volumes with Abraham Verghese, ‘The Covenant of Water’
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- 5 days ago
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- Abraham Verghese, author of “Cutting for Stone,” discusses his new book “The Covenant of Water” with Kerri Miller. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, “The Covenant of Water” is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning — and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
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- What do gender-neutral bathrooms in K-12 schools actually look like?
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- 6 days ago
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- Gender-neutral bathrooms in schools have been the focus of questions and political debate across the country. Johnson Senior High School in St. Paul, Minn., which made all of its bathrooms gender neutral in 2016, has some answers.
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- Listen: An interview with Sean Sherman at the State Fair
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- 20 days ago
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- At the Minnesota State Fair this year, arts reporters Alex V. Cipolle and Jacob Aloi spoke with James Beard Award winning chef and Time 100 Influential Person Sean Sherman, known for the famous Minneapolis restaurant Owamni.
Sherman spoke about his career, the great Minnesota get together and his mission to revitalize Native American food and culture.
Listen to the recorded version of the conversation.
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- First day of school in Minnesota: Getting students connected
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- 22 days ago
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- In Oakdale, Minn., 12th-grade students and teachers in orange shirts filled the gymnasium at Tartan High School Tuesday morning. When the doors pushed opened and the first ninth graders stepped inside, the whole room erupted in cheers.
For older students, many of whom spent their freshman year in distance learning due to the pandemic, welcoming younger students back in person was a way to give ninth graders an in-person welcome they didn’t experience.
Video by Kerem Yucel | MPR News
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- North Star Journey Live presents 'Big River Farm'
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- 27 days ago
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- Meet Project Big River Farm a Native American-led project that grows and distributes produce to the Twin Cities Native American community. They are an example of how Minnesota's sovereign tribes are reclaiming their relationship with the land.
How can Minnesota achieve more agricultural equity?
During a special North Star Journey Live conversation on Tuesday at the Minnesota State Fair, MPR News host Angela Davis talked with a panel of experts about what's working to get emerging farmers in the field, and what barriers are still in their way.
Listen to the full conversation: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/08/31/growing-diversity-the-changing-face-of-minnesota-farming
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- North Star Journey Live presents 'Dream of Wild Health'
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- 27 days ago
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- Meet Native-led nonprofit organization Dream of Wild Health. They are an example of how Minnesota's sovereign tribes are reclaiming their relationship with the land.
How can Minnesota achieve more agricultural equity?
During a special North Star Journey Live conversation on Tuesday at the Minnesota State Fair, MPR News host Angela Davis talked with a panel of experts about what's working to get emerging farmers in the field, and what barriers are still in their way.
Listen to the full conversation: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/08/31/growing-diversity-the-changing-face-of-minnesota-farming
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- North Star Journey Live presents 'Project Sweetie Pie'
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- 27 days ago
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- Meet Project Sweetie Pie, an example of urban farming focused on communities who don't have access to swaths of land to grow food for themselves. They aim to plant the "seeds of change."
How can Minnesota achieve more agricultural equity?
During a special North Star Journey Live conversation on Tuesday at the Minnesota State Fair, MPR News host Angela Davis talked with a panel of experts about what's working to get emerging farmers in the field, and what barriers are still in their way.
Listen to the full conversation: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/08/31/growing-diversity-the-changing-face-of-minnesota-farming
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- Mountain lion takes a backyard stroll in Duluth
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- 1 month ago
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- Nathaniel Smith expected to see a bear when his webcam pinged him at 3 a.m. Monday to tell him something was in his yard. What he saw was a mountain lion darting between his grill and the patio furniture.
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- Faribault, Minn., inmates learn honeybee management
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- 1 month ago
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- The University of Minnesota Bee Squad is behind the effort.
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- Scenes of medical evacuation from behind the front lines in Ukraine
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- 2 months ago
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- University of Minnesota medical student and EMT Sergey Karachenets mostly worked as part of a three-person team, helping with medical evacuations of soldiers in the Bakhmut area. Soldiers they transported had only basic field care, like bandages or a tourniquet, before Karachenets’ brigade stepped in. From there, the medics took the injured to a casualty collection point, similar to an emergency room in the U.S.
Videos were taken by Sergey Karachenets.
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- Interviews: Behind the front lines in Ukraine
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- 2 months ago
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- University of Minnesota medical student Sergey Karachenets has spent the last two months behind the front lines as a combat medic in Ukraine. While there, Karachenets interviewed some of his comrades. He found that almost all had no medical or military experience prior to the war.
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- Getting to Green: Minnesota's energy future
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- 2 months ago
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- Minnesota officials have set an ambitious goal for the state to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
Getting there will require generating our electricity from clean sources such as wind and solar, and electrifying vehicles, homes, office buildings, factories and farms that currently rely on fossil fuels.
Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future is an MPR News series digging deep into stories of the clean energy transition — and the opportunities and obstacles to reach that milestone.
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- Gregory Luce is a Minneapolis attorney who helped push through the change in adoption birth records
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- 2 months ago
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- A few sentences tucked into a massive bill that passed the Minnesota Legislature last session are poised to give people who were born in the state and then adopted, a new way to find their birth parents. In some cases, it could end decades of speculation and separation.
Read the full story: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/08/04/minnesota-adoption-birth-records-policy-change
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- Treetop Trail opens at the Minnesota Zoo
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- 2 months ago
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- On Friday, July 27, Minnesota Zoo visitors can get a new look at animals along the Treetop Trail, a new pedestrian walkway built on the old monorail.
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- Meet your team
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- 2 months ago
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- Thank YOU, our members and community supporters, for making journalism possible in Minnesota.
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- Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara's update on Fourth of July arrests and injuries
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- 3 months ago
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- At least five people were arrested and three people seriously injured after a Fourth of July night of chaos and disturbances involving fireworks in Minneapolis.
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- How crews fought a wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
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- 3 months ago
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- The Spice Lake Fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was 100 percent contained as of Wednesday, June 21 and a temporary closure order for part of the wilderness was drastically reduced.
The estimated 22-acre fire, about 10 miles southwest of the end of the Gunflint Trail, was first detected June 13. As of Wednesday morning, nine firefighters remained on-site, patrolling the area to help extinguish pockets of heat and smoke.
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- Attorney General Garland to reveal investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department
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- 3 months ago
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- At 10 a.m. Friday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is scheduled to announce the results of an extensive investigation into the city's police department — particularly officers’ use of force. The probe is widely expected to result in long-term federal court oversight of the MPD.
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- 'Systemic change': Local teacher, activist Marcia Howard on MPD changes at community meeting
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- 3 months ago
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- During a community meeting, Marcia Howard, a local teacher and activist, speaks after the findings of an investigation into the city's police department Friday morning in Minneapolis.
The Justice Department accused Minneapolis police Friday of engaging in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discriminating against Black and Native American people, following an investigation prompted by the killing of George Floyd.
Video by Kerem Yücel | MPR News
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- Grand Marais carpenter is in France rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral
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- 4 months ago
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- Join us on an awe-inspiring journey of craftsmanship and collaboration as we witness the meticulous restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral's timber frames.
Led by renowned timber framer Peter Henrikson of Grand Marais, Minn., a dedicated team of experts brings together timeless artistry and modern techniques to breathe new life into this iconic architectural masterpiece.
Explore the intricate process of crafting square timbers from felled trees using striking chisels, and experience the collaborative spirit that seamlessly reconstructs the historic timber frame structure.
Video and photos by Judy Griesidieck
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- In Focus Stories Behind the Storefront
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- 4 months ago
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- The Lake Street corridor was significantly damaged during the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd. But business owners and residents cleaned up and came back and insisted that justice be both a part and a goal of the process. How is this landmark business district faring, three years after it became ground zero for a national racial uprising? And what lessons could we learn about making economic recovery available to all?
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- Voyageurs Wolf Project: New research finds that fish are likely a widespread food for wolves
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- 4 months ago
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- New research shows that wolves are hunting for fish. MPR News Duluth reporter Dan Kraker has the story.
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- Stories Behind the Storefront: Baarla's Boutique
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- 4 months ago
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- The Lake Street corridor is still healing from the damage that followed the murder of George Floyd. How are the businesses and community doing 3 years later?
Join MPR News and Meet Minneapolis as we talk with business owners and community leaders IRL on Tuesday night.
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- How can we protect mosques in Minnesota? A community conversation with Sahan Journal and MPR News
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- 4 months ago
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- Recent attacks on local mosques have shaken the Muslim community. On June 6, Sahan Journal and MPR News will host a discussion at Masjid Ar-Rahma, in Minneapolis. Panelists include imams from the Twin Cities, the Islamic Association of North America, CAIR-MN, Minneapolis and St. Paul police, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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- Stories Behind the Storefront: Migizi
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- 4 months ago
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- The Lake Street corridor is still healing from the damage that followed the murder of George Floyd. How are the businesses and community doing 3 years later? Join MPR News and Meet Minneapolis as we talk with business owners and community leaders IRL on Tuesday night.
RSVP: https://www.mprevents.org/event/in-focus/hook-and-ladder-theater-lounge/minneapolis-minnesota/
In Focus: https://www.mprnews.org/in-focus
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- Stories Behind the Storefront: Dar Medina
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- 4 months ago
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- The Lake Street corridor is still healing from the damage that followed the murder of George Floyd. How are the businesses and community doing 3 years later? Join MPR News and Meet Minneapolis as we talk with business owners and community leaders IRL on Tuesday night.
RSVP: https://www.mprevents.org/event/in-focus/hook-and-ladder-theater-lounge/minneapolis-minnesota/
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- Talking Volumes: William Kent Krueger, Cork O’Connor Mysteries
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- 4 months ago
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- MPR News host Kerri Miller interviews William Kent Krueger, author of the Cork O'Connor Mysteries series, at Mitchell Auditorium at the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth.
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- The Rochester FC Loons
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- 4 months ago
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- There's a new soccer team in Med City. As Rochester's first pre-professional women's team prepares for its season opener, the Rochester FC Loons have drawn talent from near and far.
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- Talking Volumes: Drew Brockington, CatStronauts series and
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- 4 months ago
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- Drew Brockington joins MPR News host Kerri Miller to discuss his work with the CatStronauts and Waffles and Pancake children's book series.
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- Oromo American Tawhid Islamic Center's imam on the May 17 fire
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- 4 months ago
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- Abdurahim Doyo, imam of the Oromo American Tawhid Islamic Center, spoke outside the congregation's building on Dale Street in St. Paul, after a fire on May 17. The congregation had been worshipping there for about a dozen years, but had relocated to a larger site near Highway 280 and was renovating the building at 430 N. Dale St. when it burned. Witnesses said it had been occupied by homeless people recently, and St. Paul police said officers had found people living at the site.
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- Police, federal authorities probe St. Paul mosque fire
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- 4 months ago
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- St. Paul Fire Department spokesperson Roy Mokosso described the fire at a mosque on Dale Street on May 17, 2023, that is now being investigated as arson.
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- Ag exports critical to Minnesota in a changing world
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- 4 months ago
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- Minnesota's agriculture industry had a record-breaking year for exports last year. The state is a leading producer of many farm commodities like soybeans and corn, and exports to other countries are a key part of the ag economy. A complex web of connections moves those crops around the world. Reporting by Dan Gunderson and video by Derek Montgomery.
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- MPR News: Inform, include, inspire
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- 5 months ago
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- Thank YOU, our members and community supporters, for making journalism possible in Minnesota.
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- 'They all matter:' St. Cloud high school dance team builds connections
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- 5 months ago
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- Shana Black, coach of the Apollo Majorettes, welcomes all students regardless of experience. Her goal is to create an inclusive, supportive team where all students feel like they belong.
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- An aerial view of a sinkhole beside the Root River State Trail near Fountain, Minn.
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- 5 months ago
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- An aerial view of a sinkhole beside the Root River State Trail near Fountain, Minn. 📽️ by Ben Hovland | MPR News
Fountain, Minn., has long-styled itself as the Sinkhole Capital of the U.S. But sinkhole tourism, and the economic boost that it could bring, has never materialized. Now, some residents are working to change that.
Read more at MPRnews.org:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/05/10/sinkhole-tourism-fountain-minn-sees-an-opening
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- Sauna Days in Duluth
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- 5 months ago
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- When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, backyard sauna building took off in the state. Now a growing number of self-described “saunapreneurs” in Minnesota are helping take the experience to the masses.
Video by Derek Montgomery for MPR News
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- Federal grand jury indicts man in Minneapolis mosque arsons
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- 5 months ago
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- The Plymouth man suspected of setting fires at two Minneapolis mosques pleaded not guilty to charges of arson and damage to religious property.
Read the article here: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/05/04/federal-grand-jury-indicts-man-in-minneapolis-mosque-arsons
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- Federal grand jury indicts man in Minneapolis mosque arsons
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- 5 months ago
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- The Plymouth man suspected of setting fires at two Minneapolis mosques pleaded not guilty to charges of arson and damage to religious property. Read the article here: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/05/04/federal-grand-jury-indicts-man-in-minneapolis-mosque-arsons
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- In Focus: Breaking the Cycle
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- 5 months ago
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- When violence erupts, it creates a shock wave that impacts entire communities. The trauma embeds itself in both victims and perpetrators, and like a virus, often spreads and multiplies. How do we break the cycle?
MPR News host Angela Davis sat down with community leaders for this In Focus conversation. How does violent crime wound us, and how can we allow those wounds to heal? What are some new and creative strategies to inoculate communities from the contagion of violence?
Guests:
Lynnaia Jacobsen works as the Neighborhood Safety Community Council Manager in St. Paul’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, which was created in 2022.
Isaac Russell is the chair of St. Paul’s newly launched Neighborhood Safety Community Council. He also serves as director of public policy at the Center for Economic Inclusion.
Darlene Fry is the executive director of Irreducible Grace Foundation, a St. Paul nonprofit focused on creating safe space...
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- Duluth bird bonanza: Cold weather pauses flights north
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- 5 months ago
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- Thousands of birds are essentially stuck in the Duluth area, the consequence of what’s known as a migration “fallout.” Here are a sampling of them in MPR News Duluth reporter Dan Kraker's backyard after spreading some seed.
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- Muslim communities 'on edge' after back-to-back fires at Minneapolis mosques
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- 5 months ago
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- A day after police say someone attempted arson at a Minneapolis mosque, this mosque half a mile away also caught fire.
Authorities say the fires may be connected and may be bias-motivated crimes.
No one was hurt in the April 24 fire at this mosque and community center, Masjid Al Rahma.
Officials say the fire here was extinguished before it spread to other floors or buildings.
One day prior, worshippers put out a small fire in a restroom at Masjid Omar Islamic Center in 24 Mall.
Surveillance video there showed a masked man entered with a large paper bag, then ran out without the bag.
Minneapolis police confirmed the same man was behind an arson attempt at the mosque last year.
Minneapolis police say the FBI has joined the investigation.
No one has been arrested as of Tuesday evening.
Reporting by MPR News reporter Feven Gerezgiher. Read more here: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/04/...
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- Burnsville music class includes songs familiar to Somali students
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- 5 months ago
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- In a Burnsville school where half the students are Somali, a music teacher is diversifying her curriculum with help from the students
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- Celebrating and protecting a prairie icon: The prairie chicken
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- 5 months ago
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- The Minnesota Prairie Chicken Society celebrates 50 years of working to protect the iconic prairie species. Once abundant, the prairie chicken is now mostly found in a small area of western Minnesota.
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- Procession for fallen Deputy Joshua Owen makes its way to Pope County
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- 5 months ago
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- Law enforcement and community members came out for late Pope County Deputy Joshua Owen on Monday, April 17.
Video taken on I-94 in St. Cloud from Paul Middlestaedt and in Glenwood from Mathew Holding Eagle III.
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- Mayor says St. Paul is stepping up action against historic racial property covenants
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- 6 months ago
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- St. Paul mayor Melvin Carter says the city will take an active role in removing racial covenants from property deeds in the city, a legacy of discrimination and inequality. The covenants were invalidated more than 50 years ago, but Carter said too many people moving to St. Paul can encounter the lingering reminders of racism on their property. He spoke at a press conference on April 10, 2023.
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- Racial covenants are turning up in St. Paul's historic Black community
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- 6 months ago
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- Mikeya Griffin, executive director of the Rondo Community Land Trust in St. Paul, talks about finding a century-old racial covenant in the deed for property her organization purchased and uses for its headquarters. The trust is aimed at countering the legacy of segregation and inequity left by the destruction of the historically Black Rondo community devastated by the construction of Interstate 94 in the 1960s. She spoke in an MPR News interview after a press conference about efforts to eliminate such covenants in St. Paul on April 10, 2023.
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- Massive waves hit Minnesota's North Shore amid winter storm
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- 6 months ago
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- MPR News freelance photographer Derek Montgomery captured video of massive waves hitting the shores of Lake Superior in northern Minnesota on Wednesday.
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- Vitalis Tita and Better Greens
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- 6 months ago
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- Vitalis Tita, who owns a small vegetable farm near Montrose, Minn., talked about emigrating from his native Cameroon and why he started Better Greens to fill a niche for vegetables for African immigrants. He spoke at a federal farm bill round table held by U.S. Senator Tina Smith in Falcon Heights, Minn. on April 5, 2023.
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- Tina Smith on 2023 Farm Bill changes
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- 6 months ago
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- U.S. Senator Tina Smith, who sits on the Senate Agriculture community, invited Native American farmers and farmers of color to offer their suggestions for a major new rewrite of the federal farm bill scheduled for this year.
She said its a difficult business to break into and the USDA should make it easier. She spoke at The Good Acre, an agricultural non-profit in Falcon Heights, Minn. on April 5, 2023.
