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Morning Edition, with Cathy Wurzer in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, brings you all the news from overnight and the information you need to start your day. Listen from 4 to 9 a.m. every weekday.

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Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit

Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit

After sitting unseen and largely forgotten for more than a quarter century, a trove of images taken by a Minnesota photographer in the 1940s and 1950s are on display in a new museum exhibit in Winona.
by Andrew Krueger

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Nur-D to perform at annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration in St. Paul

Twin Cities artist Matt Allen, known on stage as Nur-D, moved to Rosemount from the Bronx as a child. He told The Current he was a nerd as a kid and didn’t think hip-hop was for him. But then he started rapping about two years ago, and he quickly hit it big.
by MPR News Staff

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Could cutting back on salt save downtown Minneapolis trees?

Could cutting back on salt save downtown Minneapolis trees?

Minneapolis has planted hundreds of trees in the past few years in an effort to green up downtown, but many aren't surviving past their first year. City staff have been trying to figure out why, and they think they might have found the culprit: salt.
by Kirsti Marohn

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4 education issues Minnesota lawmakers want to tackle in 2020

4 education issues Minnesota lawmakers want to tackle in 2020

Legislators who work on education issues are gearing up to address some of the most pressing problems they see facing Minnesota schools, including mental health, early childhood education, career and technical education and the opportunity gap.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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Art Shanty Projects shift into drive with a ‘tiny art car parade’

Art Shanty Projects shift into drive with a ‘tiny art car parade’

For the next month, visitors on Lake Harriet can enjoy installations and performances of more than 100 artists — on the ice. And every Sunday, it will feature the “world’s only tiny art car parade on ice.”
by Euan Kerr

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Iranian U of M students mourn victims of Ukraine airline crash

Iranian U of M students mourn victims of Ukraine airline crash

The number of Iranian students at the university is small, only about 130 on a campus of 51,000. But Wednesday evening, around 70 of them paused for several hours to reflect on the tragedy and remember those who died.
by Matt Sepic

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Minnesota’s 2020 presidential primary: Pick a party, then a candidate

Minnesota’s 2020 presidential primary: Pick a party, then a candidate

Absentee and in-person early voting opens Friday in Minnesota’s first presidential primary since 1992. With it comes a party designation process many Minnesota voters aren’t accustomed to.
by Brian Bakst

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