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3M appoints new CEO to lead company
3M has appointed its next chief executive officer, choosing a candidate from outside the company.
Doctor responds to Allina’s planned shuttering of pediatric services at Mercy Hospital Fridley
Allina cites declining pediatric patient volume and high renovation costs of operating rooms as part of the rationale. The decision could mean job loss for providers and disrupted patient care.
In northern Minnesota, researchers and foresters prepare for emerald ash borer invasion
The invasive emerald ash borer has slowly munched its way across the state since it was first discovered in St. Paul in 2009. Now it’s on the doorstep of the largest ash forest in North America.
Minnesota-grown technology helps scientists track wildlife around the globe
Much of the research conducted around the world on hundreds of species of wildlife — from large mammals including moose and wolves, to birds and fish and reptiles, even insects — relies on technology developed, in part, in Minnesota.
Climate solution or pipe dream? Carbon capture and coal power plants
An electric cooperative that serves customers in Minnesota and North Dakota wants to build one of the worlds largest carbon capture facilities. Skeptics doubt Project Tundra will work, but the Biden administration has thrown its support behind the nearly $2 billion project.
Proposed bill would ban legacy admissions at all Minnesota colleges
Sen. Clare Oumou Verbeten introduced the bill to counter the Supreme Court’s ruling against race-conscious admissions in 2023. Most Minnesota colleges and universities already do not consider those criteria.
Lakota vinyl collector revitalizes Indigenous music, language one record at a time
Justis Brokenrope’s vinyl collection of Native artists is bringing generations of music to new audiences on social media. The collection he’s built over the last decade includes about 300 records by Indigenous artists from various genres — mostly country, folk, rock from the 1960s through the late 1980s.
Metro Transit police chief: ‘Transit is a small window of the larger societal issues in Minnesota’
Light rail trains and most buses in the Twin Cities have fewer riders than before the pandemic, and crime is still a challenge. MPR News host Angela Davis talks with two Metro Transit leaders about how they’re trying to turn things around.