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What’s on MPR News – 5/17/19

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you'll hear on MPR News today.
by Bob Collins

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Rochester Post Bulletin sold

The future of southeast Minnesota's largest media operation has seemed obvious for the last few years: the Rochester Post Bulletin was likely to be a casualty of the newspaper depression.
by Bob Collins

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In ignoring school bus law, drivers take aim at kids

You may never see a more frightening video than the one the Minnesota State Patrol has released on its social media platforms, showing the near tragedy in the Zumbrota-Mazeppa school district when a fourth grader was trying to get on to a bus.
by Bob Collins

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Museums confront the source of their money

Some cultural institutions still have a conscience, or at least a heightened appreciation for public relations.
by Bob Collins

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Clapton covers Prince

At London’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday night, Eric Clapton did something he's never done before: he covered a Prince song.
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When medicine makes its own miracles

When medicine makes its own miracles

So stories of medical achievement in 2019, like the New York Times' report today on Woods' spinal surgery breakthrough, cause both moments of celebration and bittersweet reflection.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News – 5/16/19

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
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Another comment section bites the dust

The full promise of the internet remains relatively elusive and a decision by the producers of the public radio talk show -- 1A -- are the latest to prove it.
by Bob Collins

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A beer for the war that never ended

The daughter of a Marine, the first service member killed in the war in Kuwait/Iraq, raises money for a memorial with a new beer.
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