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Appetites | Climate Cast

Juxtaposition Arts has designs on a bigger, bolder future

Juxtaposition Arts has designs on a bigger, bolder future

The north Minneapolis nonprofit is embarking on a major expansion of its offerings, which it hopes will allow its students to move from designing products to building them, too.
by Marianne Combs

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Twin Cities archdiocese, sex abuse victims OK $210M settlement plan

Twin Cities archdiocese, sex abuse victims OK $210M settlement plan

The agreement with 450 clergy abuse survivors is the largest bankruptcy settlement of its kind in the country between Catholic church leaders and abuse victims. Archdiocese and parish insurers will pay about $170 million of the total.
by Martin Moylan

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Your guide to the Republican and Democratic state conventions

Your guide to the Republican and Democratic state conventions

Both of Minnesota's major political parties hold their state conventions this week. Democrats meet in Rochester as the Republicans meet in Duluth. Here's what you need to know.
by Briana Bierschbach

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Meet the Minnesota kids at the National Spelling Bee, and the words that took them down

Meet the Minnesota kids at the National Spelling Bee, and the words that took them down

There is nothing quite so simultaneously sweet, inspiring and heartbreaking as the Scripps National Spelling Bee. This year seven Minnesota students made it to the competition. None of them made it to the final round.
by Marianne Combs

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Paulsen pressed on guns, taxes, Trump during town hall forums

Paulsen pressed on guns, taxes, Trump during town hall forums

Republican U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen, who's been accused of avoiding constituents, held three town hall meetings Wednesday. He called the one in Hamel a success, although most who spoke were there to criticize him.
by Mark Zdechlik and Peter Cox

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Appetites: Where to find the best eats on East Lake Street

Appetites: Where to find the best eats on East Lake Street

HeavyTable.com's editor recently took his crew on a food crawl down East Lake Street. Here's what they found.
by Tom Crann

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Pillsbury House Theatre brings evening of 'theatrical jazz'

Pillsbury House Theatre brings evening of 'theatrical jazz'

'dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Show' is a 'performance processional' celebrating the spirit of black traditions. Performers will sing, move, tell stories, call the audience to process, chant, holler back and build altars.
by Marianne Combs

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Minnesota sues pharma firm over 'brazen' marketing of opioid painkiller

Minnesota sues pharma firm over 'brazen' marketing of opioid painkiller

"They were really engaging in some very terrible conduct," Attorney General Lori Swanson said of Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics. It's Minnesota's first lawsuit targeting a pharmaceutical company over its manufacture or distribution of opioids.
by Jon Collins

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