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MPR News with Tom Weber

Tom Weber, a reporter and host at MPR News for a decade, resigned effective June 22, 2018. You can find his work covering the people and places of Minnesota here.
https://www.mpr.org/about/people/tweber

GOP chooses Minneapolis businesswoman as new state party chair

Jennifer Carnahan is new to the committee and the founder of the a chain of boutique clothing stores called Primrose Park. She beat out three Republican insiders.
by Tom Weber

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Brave New Workshop's Dudley Riggs remembers when improv was considered 'shameful'

Brave New Workshop's Dudley Riggs remembers when improv was considered 'shameful'

In his new memoir, "Flying Funny: My Life Without a Net," the improv theater pioneer recounts his early days as a trapeze artist in the circus, to fighting naysayers who said improv theater was a slap in the face to great playwrights.
by Tom Weber and Nancy Yang

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What happens to kids whose parents are incarcerated?

According to research out of the University of Minnesota the majority of men and women who are incarcerated have children who are minors.
by Tom Weber and Jo Erickson

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