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Appetites | Climate Cast

Women take the mic in male-dominated powwow emcee field
Deanna Rae StandingCloud, Red Lake Nation, from Minneapolis, is one of the few female powwow emcees in a typically male-dominated field. Now that powwows and other social gatherings are coming back, she wants her voice to be heard, too.
Tribe proposes restoring elk to northeastern Minnesota
After years of study, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has submitted a formal proposal to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to move up to 150 elk from the northwestern corner of the state beginning in 2025.
There's an emerging concern from health experts about the over-prescription of medicine with older adults. In response, a new movement is emerging — the exploration of “deprescribing” medications for their older patients. 
Art Hounds recommend summer sweets
Jodi Reeb’s new exhibit turns beeswax into paintings, a debut album by Champagne Drops celebrates female friendship and mother-daughter relationships and the Hovland Arts Festival celebrates 15 years.
Inside one Minnesota school district’s battle over an equity training program 
Many Minnesota school districts are launching equity programs in an attempt to correct the state’s well-documented and longstanding racial inequalities. But in numerous places, groups of parents and sometimes students are combating those programs. Here’s what happened in Pequot Lakes, a rural, mostly white district in central Minnesota. 
Appetites: What does restaurant life look like following the pandemic?
For the last year, we have had endless conversations about what changes restaurants and service industry establishment had to change to keep up with COVID-19 restrictions. Now that those guidelines are easing up, what might we see stick around?
Are 'false springs' getting more extreme?
A drastic “false spring” in France this year caused an estimated $2 billion in damage to vineyards. Can the region — and ours — expect more of these late winter temperature swings?
Art Hounds: COVID-19 and mourning on film, plus other emotion-provoking performances
Yeej Moua debuts his short film, “The Wind Always Strikes the Highest Mountain,” for the Northern Spark festival’s final weekend. Minnesota artists explore issues of disability and theater at Full Circle. And Laura Sellner has a new EP.