🌧️ A low-pressure system will spread rain from south to north across Minnesota Tuesday. High temperatures will be mostly in the 40s across Minnesota with some 50s southeast.
☀️ Drier and sunnier weather returns Wednesday through Friday. Highs will gradually moderate back into the 50s statewide by the end of the work week.
Get ready to vote, Minnesota. Election Day is here and polls open at 7 a.m. across the state. Some smaller towns with less than 500 residents are allowed to open their polls later at 10 a.m., but most choose to open at 7 a.m. Find information about candidates on your ballot and more election resources at MPR News’ Your Vote MN.
Democrats have held slim majorities in both chambers for two years and have made the case to voters that they should get an extension. They see the next term as critical to moving ahead with progressive priorities and to finish setting up a state paid family and medical leave program and legal cannabis marketplace.
Republicans, meanwhile, have argued that DFLers used their majorities to move Minnesota too far to the left and the state needs more political moderation with divided government.
🌞 New North Shore livestream offers moment of Zen amid info overload. As the nation’s political divide deepens, overseas wars expand and social media features mis- and disinformation, a Tofte-based photographer and filmmaker is offering a moment of respite with the beauty of Lake Superior’s North Shore.
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