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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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The puppets take Minnesota: A new exhibition features the art of puppetry from around the state
The Anderson Center at Tower View’s exhibition “Puppetry! In Minnesota!!” showcases the state’s diverse puppetry scene from the 1970s to today, featuring works from traditional to experimental styles.
Experts foresee negative ripple effects in termination of USDA scientists in St. Paul lab
A team at the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul got notice last week that some of their jobs were getting cut. Experts warn that cutting jobs in this area will harm research and potentially affect the prices of wheat, barley and oats.
Latino business owners say customers are staying away in wake of deportation threats
Some Latino business owners say customers have been staying away out of fear of being detained and deported. Twin Cities business and city leaders are encouraging people to buy from Latino-owned shops this Saturday.
Public health worker in Minneapolis laid off in mass firings by the Trump administration
MacClement Guthrie was working with Minneapolis schools on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections as a part of a fellowship program under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when he was let go suddenly.
Appetites: How to cook PFAS-free now that Minnesota ban is in effect
Nicole Hvidsten, taste editor at the Minnesota Star Tribune, offers tips on how to check if your cookware contains PFAS and suggests non-stick alternatives now that these “forever chemicals” are banned in Minnesota.
‘Outrageous’ and ‘chilling’: Local orgs react to new DEI restrictions from the National Endowments for the Arts
The Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis has rejected a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts due to new federal restrictions barring grant recipients from promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and gender ideology, joining a growing number of arts organizations nationwide in condemning the policy.
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier welcomed home after release from prison
After nearly 50 years of incarceration, Native American political activist Leonard Peltier has been released from prison. Former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence in January before leaving office. In 1977 Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two FBI agents.