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All Things Considered with Clay Masters is your comprehensive source for afternoon news and information. Listen from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every weekday.

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Craft brewers consider kicking the aluminum tariff can to customers
Craft brewers are feeling the impact of tariffs through increases in ingredient costs, but perhaps more significantly through tariffs on Canadian aluminum and steel, which are pushing up the cost of their cans. Now breweries around the area are trying to decide how much they can pass on to customers.
Minneapolis school board set to unveil cuts to close $75 million budget gap
Minneapolis school board members on Tuesday night are expected to lay out planned cuts to balance the budget for next school year. A recent survey of Twin Cities area school districts shows other school systems struggling to close gaps as well.
Eichorn resigns Minnesota Senate seat amid soliciting a minor charge
Grand Rapids Republican Justin Eichorn was facing possible expulsion from the Senate on Thursday after being arrested Monday in a prostitution sting in Bloomington and charged with attempting to solicit a 17-year-old. He appeared in court Thursday afternoon.
She’s a rabbi. He’s a Palestinian peace activist. They’re trying to start a movement
A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has ended. But even as peace in the region seems out of reach, a group of Twin Cities Palestinian peace activists and Jewish people have continued to meet and have difficult conversations.
Cooking up a bill? Find bipartisan backers, keep dollars tight to succeed this Minnesota session
The Minnesota Legislature is about as evenly split as it can get — with 101 Democrats and 99 Republicans, with one vacant seat that had until last week been in GOP hands. That means there’s a new formula this year to get bills across the finish line.
Should U.S. Hockey Hall’s home be on the Iron Range, or in St. Paul?
A faceoff is coming between Eveleth and St. Paul over which should host the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. With its storied hockey history, the Iron Range town has hosted the Hall for decades. Yet even the locals admit it doesn’t draw a lot of visitors.
Feeding Our Future head Aimee Bock convicted on all fraud charges
A federal jury Wednesday convicted Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock and former restaurateur Salim Said on wire fraud and bribery charges stemming from a scheme to fleece taxpayers out of $250 million meant to feed children. One prosecutor called it “the shame of Minnesota.”