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A warm up is in the mix. Highs on Thursday will be widespread in the 50s for most of the state. Get the latest on Updraft.
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Campaign for control of Legislature plays out in suburbs
Although all 201 seats in the Minnesota Legislature are on the ballot this year, only some are truly competitive. And many of those are in second-ring suburbs and outlying regional centers. 
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Art Hounds: Donut look away from a Halloween season film fest
The Twin Cities Horror Festival serves up 11 new shows devoted to the horror genre to get you ready for Halloween. Minnesota Bach Ensemble launches its 10th-anniversary season with a collection of baroque classics in Minneapolis and locally produced podcast “This Queer Book Saved My Life” enters its second season.
 
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'In the hopes that these seeds will outlive us': returning seeds to their ancestral homes. In the last decades, indigenous communities have stopped growing the varieties of corn, beans, squash, and various plants they had cultivated for years. Now, a group in Minnesota wants to track down and return these lost seeds to the indigenous communities who once cared for them. 

We are falling for your fall photos! We asked Minnesotans across the state to show us the autumn landscape outside their front doors. Here are our favorite photos we received.

Listen: Michael Kleber-Diggs on why some of Minnesota's best poets happen to be in prison.  Stillwater is the oldest. Faribault is the largest. St. Cloud has the longest wall: one and a half miles long. Shakopee houses women. And Oak Park Heights is maximum security. These are prisons in Minnesota, but Michael Kleber-Diggs calls them classrooms. He’s a poet and essayist and works with inmates who are part of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Michael about the program and the upcoming annual student reading event on Oct. 22.
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