🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: Big changes are brewing in the neighborhood of Minnesota’s Capitol. A major remodel of a key legislative office building will begin soon. One state-owned building is set to be demolished, and another could soon follow. Reporter Brian Bakst gives us an update.
🎧 Coming up at 11 a.m.: On this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas, MPR News host Kerri Miller talks with Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché about why cowriting a book online turned out to be a raucous, joyful thing and how their shared love for tropes and pop culture influenced their book, "Prophet."
Today at the Minnesota State Fair: It's MPR Day at the fair! Here's what we have lined up at Dan Patch Park. Our staff will be there to answer your technology questions at our Smarty Bar and partners will be hosting activities with giveaways.
10:30–11:30 a.m. Radio Heartland presents The Cactus Blossoms
In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program which sought to cancel up to $10,000 for the vast majority of borrowers and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. The program as it was initially proposed would have reached more than 40 million borrowers and wiped away the balances of about 20 million.
That means over 775,000 people in Minnesota will have to start making payments on their loans after a three-year pause. In total, Minnesotans owe about $29.1 billion in student loans, according to the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.
