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Good morning and happy Thursday. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. 

Still searching for sunshine. Mostly cloudy and breezy today, with a chance of AM drizzle. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s in the metro and southern part of the state. Likely morning rain in the northeast and some winds in the metro. Possible frost in the north overnight. More on Updraft.

Centuries-old cases involving spilled milk and dynamite are at play in Minneapolis’ state Supreme Court fight over its labor laws. MPR News’ Tim Nelson reports on the origins of the legal battle over Minneapolis sick leave and minimum wage ordinances — and how they “could hardly have less to do with livable wages and paid time off.” If you’ve ever had a job, chances are this story will be interesting

Crime wave? Nope. “Violent crime dropped once again in Minnesota last year, continuing a decade­long trend that’s made the state and its metro area among the nation’s safest,” writes Andy Mannix in the Star Tribune.

A quarter of Minnesota 11th graders self-report using an e-cigarette in the past month. That’s according to a new state Health Department report, which also found the age group didn’t understand the health risks tied to vaping. The new figure is a 54 percent increase in vaping from 2016.

Comcast listens to fans on Twins broadcast. The network was going to require its users to pay $9.99 a month for a package containing MLB Network, which has exclusive broadcast rights for Friday’s playoff game. After enough negative attention, Comcast reversed itself.

Bernie Sanders is taking a health break from campaign events. The senator is recovering from having two stents “ successfully inserted” in his heart.

Countertop manufacturing is apparently making people sick. The likely culprit in a handful of injuries and two deaths is silica dust, as NPR reports. It’s found in the artificial stone that’s in popular types of countertops. Workers may inhale the lung-damaging dust when cutting the material. 

A couple very powerful Minnesotans support college athletes getting paid. Gophers men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino says he supports a new California law allowing college athletes to profit off their image and name. “The more we can get these guys — I’m all for it,” he said at Big Ten Media Days. And Democrat Gov. Tim Walz says he’s willing to consider a similar bill. Reporting for both those stories from the Star Tribune.

Minnesota can make its own net neutrality rules. That’s according to MinnPost’s Walker Orenstein, who writes on a federal appeals court ruling regarding internet law and how it “gives new life” to Minnesota lawmakers who want state-level regulations.

Cody Nelson, MPR News
Dynamite vs. dairy cows: The odd legal foundations of Minneapolis labor law
Tim Nelson | MPR News
Century-old cases involving milk purity and the shack of a rogue explosives lover in Duluth have become weirdly relevant in the battle over Minneapolis’ sick leave and minimum wage ordinances.
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'I've never told anyone': Stories of life in Indian boarding schools
Dan Gunderson | MPR News
A new book by an Ojibwe author tells the stories life for American Indian children in boarding schools designed to purge their language and culture.
Most Americans support safe gun storage laws, according to new poll
Adhiti Bandlamudi
A recent survey from APM Research Lab, Call To Mind and Guns & America found that most Americans — including those who own guns and those who don’t — support laws requiring gun owners to store their firearms with a lock in place.
Mpls. council panel favors study of rent-controlled housing in the city
Matt Sepic | MPR News
Minneapolis city officials are considering capping the amount of money landlords can charge their tenants. The idea is gaining traction in smaller cities as high demand for rental housing squeezes the supply, but supporters of rent control face some big obstacles.
What's on the radio today

9 a.m. — MPR News with Kerri Miller

Ask almost any woman, and she will tell you: There’s a huge gap between what’s expected of women in America today and what it’s like to be a woman in America today. And trying to close the gap between those two things can be exhausting.

Yet many women don’t take chronic stress seriously. That bothered author and health educator Emily Nagoski. So she and her sister, Amelia, looked to science. How can women learn to release that stress? Is there more to self-care than a pedicure? How can women “lean in” when they are already giving 110 percent? The Nagoskis’ new book, “Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle,” lays out a science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions and live more rested, joyful lives.

10 a.m. — 1A with Joshua Johnson

What kinds of gun laws do Americans support? 1-A lifts the lid on some exclusive polling on the public mood and the changing conversation around guns in America. Joshua Johnson gets the latest data from "Guns and America" that looks at what we talk about when we talk about guns. 

11 a.m. — MPR News with Angela Davis

This fall, Prince’s long-anticipated memoir “The Beautiful Ones” and an extended version of his landmark album 1999 will be released. 

The Current’s Andrea Swensson wrote some of the liner notes included in the reissue of the album, which comes out in November. It will include 35 unreleased tracks, as well as archive concert footage from Houston.

“This period speaks to a real pivotal moment in his career,” Swensson said. 

The memoir, expected to be released Oct. 29, was halted after Prince died of an accidental opioid overdose in 2016. He had started working on that project just a few months before his death. It will feature rare photographs and handwritten lyrics, according to the publisher, Random House.

It is a “deeply personal account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: the real-time story of a kid absorbing the world around him and creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and the fame that would come to define him,” the publisher said in a statement earlier this year.

12 p.m. — MPR News Presents

A new Intelligence Squared debate. The motion: Should we replace private insurance with "Medicare-for-All?" YES: Dr. Adam Gaffney and Joseph Sanberg. NO: Sally Pipes and Nick Gillespie.

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