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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month in Minnesota: Getting out the vote with NACDI
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- Celebrating Native American Heritage Month in Minnesota: Getting out the vote with NACDI
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- 5:40
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Native News team at MPR News decided to honor Native American Heritage Month in November by celebrating Native communities and their accomplishments in Minnesota. On Nov. 7 reporter Melissa Olson attended a “get out the vote” effort led by the Native American Community Development Institute, or NACDI, for Election Day in Minneapolis.
Learn more about the team: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/10/09/mpr-news-native-news-team-on-indigenous-peoples-day
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- Celebrating Native American Heritage Month in Minnesota: Art exhibit at AICHO Galleries in Duluth
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- 3:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Native News team at MPR News decided to honor Native American Heritage Month in November by celebrating Native communities and their accomplishments in Minnesota. On Nov. 4 editor Leah Lemm attended the art exhibition “Mazinibii’igewininiwag: Two Woodland Artists” at AICHO Galleries in Duluth.
In the video, Lemm speaks with artists Steven StandingCloud (Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians) and Gordon Coons (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), as well as Miikanan Gallery curator Karen Goulet (White Earth Nation) and event attendee Amber Buckanga (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe).
Learn more about the team: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/10/09/mpr-news-native-news-team-on-indigenous-peoples-day
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- Celebrating Native American Heritage Month in Minnesota: Dakota Stories and Storytellers event
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- 4:07
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Native News team at MPR News decided to honor Native American Heritage Month in November by celebrating Native communities and their accomplishments in Minnesota. On Nov. 1 they attended an event showcasing authors of “Voices From Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers” at the Minnesota Historical Society’s Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. The book was given to K-12 educators across the state to help students learn about Native American history.
In this video, reporter Melissa Olson talks with authors Teresa Peterson and Walter "Super" LaBatte Jr., as well as State Sen. Mary Kunesh and Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community secretary and treasurer Rebecca Crooks-Stratton.
Learn more about the team: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/10/09/mpr-news-native-news-team-on-indigenous-peoples-day
Learn more about the One Read project: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/10/10/minnesota-native-reading-project-teaches-present-tense-of-...
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- How addiction is impacting Karen and Hmong communities
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- 1:01:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Karen and Hmong parents in Minnesota say they are alarmed by the growing problem of substance abuse they see in their kids. But fixing it is difficult due to historical trauma, generational differences and a lack of access to health care.
This North Star Journey Live discussion, done in partnership with Sahan Journal, looks at the issues and the solutions.
More from North Star Journey Live: https://www.mprnews.org/north-star-journey/nsj-live
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- Farewell to a Lake Street icon: Watch former Minneapolis Kmart building demolition
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- 0:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Crews this week demolished the former Kmart building on Lake Street in Minneapolis over the course of several days. Video by Ben Hovland | MPR News.
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- Sven Sundgaard continues 'learning vacation' in the Canadian tundra
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- MPR News meteorologist Sven Sundgaard had his first full day on the tundra, observing over a dozen polar bears. Here’s his update.
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- Escape to the cold? MPR's Sven Sundgaard on his trip to the arctic
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Minnesota has seen some beautiful sunny temperatures so far this November. So MPR Meteorologist Sven Sundgaard decided to escape to the cold.
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- Talking Volumes: Margaret Renkl, "The Comfort of Crows"
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- 1:43:52
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Margaret Renkl brings “The Comfort of Crows” to St. Paul. In “The Comfort of Crows,” Margaret Renkl presents a devotional of sorts: fifty-two essays that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year.
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- Roger Reinert acceptance speech after winning Duluth mayoral race
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Roger Reinert will be the next mayor of Duluth after resoundingly defeating two-term incumbent Emily Larson in an election where voters issued a convincing call for change.
Reinert, 53, secured 60 percent of the vote compared to 40 percent for Larson. A total of 29,295 votes were cast.
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- Felons vote at polls for first time since Minnesota restored voting rights
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Tuesday was special for Minnesotans like Moncies Franco Sr., who voted for the first time since their voting rights were restored in June thanks to Minnesota’s new Restore the Vote law.
Prior to change, Franco and roughly 55,000 other Minnesotans with a convicted felony could not vote until their full sentence (probation or supervised release) was completed.
Read more at https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/11/07/my-voice-matters-felons-vote-at-polls-for-first-time-after-voting-rights-restored
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- Minnesotan Erin Hunter balances swords on her legs
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- 2:26
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Erin Hunter is a belly dancer from Bloomington, Minn. Courtesy video.
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- Minnesota Supreme Court hearing on whether Trump can be on the ballot
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- 1:18:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Oral arguments are scheduled for Thursday in a Minnesota case seeking to ban Donald Trump from ballots in 2024. It’s one of two cases likely to yield a quick result and possibly make their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Find more coverage at mprnews.org here:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/11/01/key-things-to-know-about-a-minnesota-case-challenging-trumps-ballot-access
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- Biden suggests 'pause' in Israel-Hamas war as demonstrators confront him during Minnesota visit
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- 0:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- According to Jewish Voice for Peace, a nonprofit organization, Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg of Minneapolis interrupted Biden’s speech demanding a ceasefire.
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- Talking Volumes Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Runtime
- 1:37:30
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Viet Thanh Nguyen joins MPR News host Kerri Miller as he delves into the story behind his highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir, “A Man of Two Faces.”
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- How a new whitewater course could bring life back to Austin’s river
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Around the state, communities are considering what to do with their aging dams. People in Austin, Minn., think they have an answer: a custom built whitewater course.
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- Talking Volumes with Ann Patchett
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- 1:52:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Ann Patchett — and a surprise guest! — joined host Kerri Miller on stage Sept. 28 for Talking Volumes. They discussed why women are always the ones making dinner, what Ann really thinks of books tours, how she choses to live without regret, and — oh yes — her new novel, "Tom Lake."
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- Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl reflects on 25 years of Minnesota people, places and food in her new book
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- 1:07:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl spoke with MPR News host Tom Crann on Sept. 21, at an MPR News event about her new book, “The Essential Dear Dara: Writings on Local Characters and Memorable Places.”
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- 3 “Reservation Dogs” actors, writers on how they’ve broken barriers
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- 6:23
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Dallas Goldtooth, Migizi Pensoneau and Bobby Wilson, who are actors, writers and producers on FX’s “Reservation Dogs,” all hail from Dakota and Ojibwe communities in Minnesota. MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talked with them about barriers they’ve broken on Minnesota Now, available wherever you listen to podcasts.
Find Minnesota Now episodes:
https://www.mprnews.org/shows/minnesotanow
#reservationdogs #mprnews #minnesotanow
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- Lake Superior shipwreck found 70 years after sinking
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:44:35
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 20:48
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 0:20
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 3:19
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 5:07
- Date posted
- 3 years 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
- Runtime
- 47:55
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:58:50
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 2:46
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:00:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 3 years 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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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 3 years 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-fo...
In Focus: https://www.mprnews.org/in-focus
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- How can we protect mosques in Minnesota? A community conversation with Sahan Journal and MPR News
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- 1:42:51
- Date posted
- 3 years 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
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Talking Volumes: William Kent Krueger, Cork O’Connor Mysteries
- Runtime
- 1:26:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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
- Runtime
- 1:05:13
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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.
