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We get a nice bump up in temperatures for the next couple days with widespread 40s for most of Minnesota Wednesday afternoon, but our active wintry weather pattern continues this week. There’s still a lot of uncertainty to work out of the forecast for Thursday into Friday. Get the latest on Updraft.

🎧 It’s so important for kids to feel like they fit in, whether that’s at home, at school or in their communities. Ideally, they’d feel like they belong in all these spaces, but that can be tough if you don’t fully understand yourself or your family history. Two children’s book authors living in Minnesota went through that and they’re joining MPR News host Angela Davis at 9 a.m. on Wednesday to talk about their paths to learning and loving themselves. Now they’re adults and helping kids feel like they have a voice through their books.
 
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Prior Lake High students find voice, power in wake of Twin Cities racial turmoil

Prior Lake High School student Eden Alemu was a 14-year-old sophomore when she realized for the first time that she could change the world around her.  

It was April 2021 and Eden, who is Black, hadn’t been attending classes in person for more than a year due to the pandemic. But she left her Google Meets class on the screen of her laptop in her bedroom and went to stand outside her high school with more than 100 other students to protest the police killing of Daunte Wright, a Black Minnesotan not much older than Eden and her friends.

It was Eden’s first walkout and it transformed her. Standing with students at a rally organized by young people, calling out the killing as an injustice together with thousands of other students around the state, she felt herself move from shock and pain over Wright’s killing to action.  

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The artist’s guide to the galaxy: Michael Engebretson explores space and autism

Michael Engebretson creates fantastical paintings of transdimensional spaceships and other science fiction themes. He’s says these are informed by his experiences with autism, which allow him to experience the world — and solutions for the world’s problems — in ways others may not.

His solo exhibition, “Transdimensional Multiversal Nonlinear Cosmic Traveler,” which features dozens of paintings, ceramic works and poems, runs through April 14 at the Interact Gallery in St. Paul.

 
What else we're watching:
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic has cancer surgery. The DFL leader of the Minnesota Senate revealed Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery Monday.

Party-status bill stirs Ventura; backers say it’ll curb ballot ‘mischief.’ Minnesota’s third parties are steaming over a bill to make their path to the big leagues more difficult as the leaders of the state’s Republican and DFL parties align to head off a system they say is ripe for mischief.

The city of St. Paul opens Rondo Inheritance Fund. Beginning Tuesday, the Rondo Inheritance Fund is officially open to direct descendants of those impacted. Those eligible can get up to $110,000 in forgivable loans for a down payment on a home or up to $80,000 for home repairs.

Mpls business owner on why the Silicon Valley Bank collapse is hurting women-owned business. Over the weekend, founder and CEO of Minneapolis-based Soona Studios, Liz Giorgi, shared her experience with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse on Twitter. Like many of the businesses affected, Soona is woman owned. Giorgi says traditional banks have underfunded women. She talked about this and more on All Things Considered with guest host Catharine Richert.


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