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Morning Announcements for April 15
These are the Morning Announcements for Wednesday, April 15. Tell us what you’re celebrating!
Understanding addiction and recovery
MPR News host Angela Davis talks about how some people who have lived with addiction support others in recovery.
‘I’m still heartbroken’: Sam Nordquist’s family struggles to make sense of his death
Sam Nordquist of Oakdale traveled to New York state to meet the woman of his dreams. Nearly five months later, his body was found in a farmer’s field in a rural area. State investigators say he was held against his will for about a month in his girlfriend’s apartment.
As Minnesota lawmakers work to stop grooming in schools, a question lingers: What is grooming?
State lawmakers are looking at measures to prevent grooming of children by adults in schools and other institutions. Experts say understanding what grooming is and isn’t is the first step to ending this damaging facet of child abuse.
Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out
Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis were an active part of downtown.
Local group wants to see St. Paul reach a more climate-forward, flexible contract with Xcel
The city of St. Paul is working out a new franchise agreement with one of its main utilities, Xcel Energy. Unidos MN says it wants to see changes to the fee structure and a shorter contract.
A new poetry book, 20 years in the making
A new poetry book explores poems of spring and connection through 20 years of poetry.
Former diplomats gather in Minneapolis to discuss nuclear proliferation amid war in Iran
The “Great Decisions Conference” comes at a tense time for global security as the standoff between the U.S. and Iran intensifies. Mary Curtin, one of the panelists and a former diplomat, shared more about the gathering.