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The science and art of breeding, growing and tasting fruit
MPR News host Angela Davis talks with two University of Minnesota fruit breeders who helped bring some of your favorite apples to market.
Judge halts cannabis license lottery that is precursor to Minnesota marijuana retail launch
A Ramsey County judge blocked a regulatory agency from holding a license pre-approval lottery after applicants who were denied entry sued the Office of Cannabis Management over the process.
Morning Announcements for Nov. 25
Here are the morning announcements for Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.
Minneapolis council member who beat rare cancer fights to protect others from harmful pollutants
LaTrisha Vetaw survived a rare form of cancer that doctors told her was likely caused by her exposure to toxins in the air and land where she grew up in Chicago. That was on her mind when the Minneapolis City Council voted recently in favor of closing a solid waste incinerator.
Old machines, new traditions fuel Rollag’s ‘Ladies of Steam’
Nicole Wallace’s love of steam powered engines began as a hobby. Today, she leads a global sisterhood of women with a passion for the vintage machines.
In deep blue Minneapolis, many Somali voters withheld support for Harris
According to state elections data, support for Vice President Kamala Harris in parts of Minneapolis with concentrations of East African immigrants and Somali voters was weaker than in the city as a whole.
Defendants in human smuggling case convicted on all counts
A jury in Fergus Falls took only about an hour to return verdicts of guilty on all charges to two men accused of human smuggling. The trial arose from the hypothermia deaths of a family from India who in January 2022 were directed to walk across the border from Canada into Minnesota during a bitterly cold snowstorm.
Dr. Marty Makary on medicine's blind spots
Dr. Marty Makary says data misinterpretation and conventional thinking is not serving us well — and he wants to change that. His new book, “Blind Spots,” details when medicine got it wrong and then resisted making it right.
Morning Announcements for Nov. 22
Here are the morning announcements for Friday, Nov. 22, 2024.