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Our Thursday cold front blows in fresh cold Canadian air for a couple of days that will cool Minnesota closer to average through Friday. Get the latest on Updraft.

🎧 At 9 a.m., MPR News host Angela Davis talks about electric cars and how the inventory in the auto market is set to change. We’ll look at how the largest car companies are not just charged up for the future, but how they’re teaming up with the tech industry to produce new electric vehicles. Find the rest of the MPR News lineup on our website.
A person adjusts a sculpture while standing on a ladder
Femme giants and more rise at the Rochester Art Center

A week before her show opening, artist Nicole Havekost still needs to stitch what she describes as “pendulous breasts” onto one of her colossal female humanoid sculptures, named “Supine.” Havekost also needs to reshape the derriere of “Settle,” a 13-foot figure bracing herself against one of the white walls of the Rochester Art Center.

“For me they get to take up space in ways that, as a woman, I haven't felt like was mine to take up or, you know, mine to claim,” say Havekost, standing next to the scissor lift needed to position “Settle.”

“I love that they're like these giant feminine creatures that I feel are very nurturing, but you also want to take care of them. They feel like mothers but also they've been through some stuff.”
 
What else we're watching:
Legal cannabis bill clears first committee, many more ahead. A marijuana legalization bill took one small step in the Minnesota Legislature on Wednesday but has many more to go before it can become law.  

Hamline student, former instructor at center of debate over religion, academic freedom speak out Two people at the center of the controversy at Hamline University over academic freedom that has gained international attention spoke Wednesday about how the incident has impacted their lives.

New York Republicans call on Santos to resign and give up his House seat. Republican leaders from Long Island condemned Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., Wednesday as a "pathological liar" and demanded he give up the House seat he won in November.

Donald Blom, killer of Katie Poirier, dies in Minn. prison. Donald Blom, the man convicted in the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk Katie Poirier in a case that shook Minnesota, has died while serving a prison sentence of life without parole, the Department of Corrections said Wednesday. 

Winter play: a Minnesota transplant learns to love skiing. Finding joy in the winter is essential to survive in Minnesota, as producer Ellen Finn realized when she moved to the Twin Cities from the West Coast a few years ago. MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talks with Finn about her experience learning to ski.

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