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Duluth's Kara Goucher: 'I got to grow up seeing how running could bring a community together.'

Duluth's Kara Goucher: 'I got to grow up seeing how running could bring a community together.'

Kara Goucher is known as much for her elite athleticism as she is for holding powerful people to account in the sports world. She spoke with MPR News host Emily Bright.
by Emily Bright and Gretchen Brown

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Clean energy will require more power lines, but who should get to build them?

Clean energy will require more power lines, but who should get to build them?

With more and more clean energy being produced, the need is growing for transmission lines to deliver all that energy to people. And the debate about who will get to build these lines is heating up with billions of dollars on the line.
by Paul Huttner and Ngoc Bui

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Q&A: Playwright Itamar Moses discusses his adaptation of 'An American Tail'

Q&A: Playwright Itamar Moses discusses his adaptation of 'An American Tail'

The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis premieres Itamar Moses' adaptation of “An American Tail,” a story of immigration and community organizing, which explores Jewish resilience and the paradoxical way in which the very specific can feel universal.
by Jacob Aloi

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Advocates prepare day of action to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous relatives and Black women

Advocates prepare day of action to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous relatives and Black women

As part of a national awareness day Friday, advocates will gather in Bemidji, Duluth and on the Capitol lawn. MPR News Host Emily Bright talked with Nicole Matthews, executive director of the Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition, which is organizing the event in St. Paul.
by Emily Bright and Alanna Elder

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A playwright and a rabbi on the effect of explicitly Jewish characters in children's stories

A playwright and a rabbi on the effect of explicitly Jewish characters in children's stories

In the 1986 animated children’s movie “An American Tail,” the Mousekewicz family, who are mice, flee religious persecution in Russia and come to America. It's a story of immigration and community organizing — and it's now a timely new musical playing at the Minnesota Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis.
by Emily Bright and Jacob Aloi

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Opportunities and hope behind bars

Opportunities and hope behind bars

People who are incarcerated are less likely to return to jail or prison if they have access to education and arts programs. MPR News host Angela Davis highlights Minnesota programs bringing education, the arts and hope to people behind bars.
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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