Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕
WEATHER
🥶 Wednesday will be a crisp day with gusty winds, scattered snow showers and cold temperatures mostly in the 30s and upper 20s.
🌬️ The Twin Cities will see occasional snow showers and may pick up coating on grassy areas Wednesday. It will feel like winter with gusty winds and temperatures in the 20s and 30s across Minnesota.
For the past few weeks, there has been a distinctive rattling rising from the wetland around the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge, about an hour’s drive north of the Twin Cities metro. It’s the sound of thousands of sandhill cranes gathering to rest and feed before migrating south for the winter.
The Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul celebrates 40 years as a beloved community hub for children’s books, storytimes and local literary events, weathering challenges like eBooks, Amazon and the pandemic.
🧑🏻⚖️ Border agents lay out a day of horror leading to the discovery of a frozen family. Tuesday in the Federal Courthouse in Fergus Falls, prosecutors began laying out their case against two men accused of human smuggling which resulted in the death of an entire family.
🌎 First phase of massive Sherco Solar project now generating electricity. Tuesday’s event marked a milestone in Xcel’s transition away from burning fossil fuels to carbon-free sources of energy — like the sun and wind — that don’t contribute to climate change.
🎧 How philanthropy can support housing stability and racial justice. MPR News host Angela Davis talked with the president of the Pohlad Family Foundation, Susan Bass Roberts, about how and where the Pohlads give away their money and about her own career in corporate and community philanthropy.
