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All Things Considered

Tom Crann
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All Things Considered, with Tom Crann in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington, is your comprehensive source for afternoon news and information. Listen from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every weekday.

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Brewing breakthrough: Craft beer makers eliminate wastewater in experiment

Brewing breakthrough: Craft beer makers eliminate wastewater in experiment

MPR News Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner talked to University of Minnesota professor Paige Novak about a new, sustainable way to treat wastewater from breweries.
by Paul Huttner and Matthew Alvarez

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MN Shortlist, May 30–June 5: Hitchcock with a live score, an outlaw musical and women muralists

MN Shortlist, May 30–June 5: Hitchcock with a live score, an outlaw musical and women muralists

This week’s MN Shortlist highlights a live score performance of Hitchcock’s “The Lodger,” a new musical about Minnesota outlaw Nellie King and a talk on Latin American women muralists.
by Jacob Aloi, Anika Besst, Alex V. Cipolle and Max Sparber

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She left a career in government auditing to advocate for farmers like her parents

She left a career in government auditing to advocate for farmers like her parents

Friendly Vang-Johnson’s parents were some of the first Hmong refugees to farm in Minnesota. She wasn’t planning to follow in her parents’ footsteps, but that changed when she started a delivery program that eventually became Friendly Hmong Farms, a wider effort to support farmers in Washington and Minnesota.
by Alanna Elder

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Art Hounds: War and healing, celebrating human creativity and a theatrical take on Virginia Woolf

Art Hounds: War and healing, celebrating human creativity and a theatrical take on Virginia Woolf

Art hounds recommend a multimedia exhibition grappling with war and healing, an art-and-music night focused on human creativity over AI and a theatrical meditation on identity and gender, co-created by a Minneapolis father-daughter duo.
by Emily Bright and Jacob Aloi

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Minnesota Pollution Control Agency adds ‘blowing dust’ to air quality alerts

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency adds ‘blowing dust’ to air quality alerts

Dust storms are more than just a nuisance weather event; the fine particles can contribute to poor air quality. MPR News chief meteorologist Paul Huttner talked to an expert about why the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is adding blowing dust to its public-health alerts.
by Paul Huttner and Matthew Alvarez

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Convicted human smugglers get prison sentences after Indian family’s deaths on Canada-U.S. border

Convicted human smugglers get prison sentences after Indian family’s deaths on Canada-U.S. border

Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand’s sentencing Wednesday in federal court comes more than three years after a family of four from India froze to death while trying into the U.S. along a remote stretch of the Canadian border in a blizzard. 
by The Associated Press, Annie Baxter and Mathew Holding Eagle III

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History we don’t teach: Floyd’s murder an uneasy subject in Minnesota schools

History we don’t teach: Floyd’s murder an uneasy subject in Minnesota schools

Minnesota was the epicenter of American history after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. But five years later, you’re unlikely to find it taught in Minnesota schools. Some teachers say it’s too painful and too politically charged.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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