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🍂 Hello fall, my old friend. It will be a cool Tuesday with highs in the chilly 60s across most of Minnesota. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: The DNR's fall color forecast is out, and they're expecting peak colors between mid-September and mid-October depending on where you're at in the state. But another summer plagued by drought means the landscape may not be as vibrant. A forest health expert will tell us what to expect in the coming weeks.

🎧 Coming up at 9 a.m.: Twin Cities chef Lachelle Cunningham is known for her culinary skills and her love of teaching others how to cook. MPR News host Angela Davis talks with her about training a new generation of food entrepreneurs and why she’s passionate about getting more Black women outdoors to hunt and forage. We want to hear from you, too. Do you love trying new things in the kitchen? Tell us about your improv cooking success. And what do you want to ask Chef LaChelle? ☎️ Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828 during the 9 a.m. hour.
 
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/09/12/bars-as-safe-spaces-for-people-of-color-in-minneapolis
Bars as safe spaces for people of color in Minneapolis

Safe social space for people of color in America — and Minnesota — can still feel rare. Bars and restaurants are an important part of providing that space.

Food writer Mecca Bos spoke to three people of color active in the business side of the Twin Cities bar scene about the places important to them.
 
What else we're watching:
Digesters make renewable energy from manure, but face hurdles. Danish company Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic digesters in Minnesota and Wisconsin that would harvest methane from livestock waste to produce biogas. Those plans are now on hold. But experts say there’s plenty of potential to turn methane from manure from a liability into a commodity.

Twin Cities August hail storm was 1 of a record 23 U.S. billion-dollar disasters. Minnesota made this year’s dubious list with its damaging hail storm on Aug. 11.

Minneapolis 9/11 tribute concert canceled due to volunteer shortage. Mary Middleton, board chair of Minnesota 9-11 Tribute, says the group is planning a comeback next year.

How to see a newly-discovered green comet this week, before it vanishes for 400 yearsA newly-discovered green comet is zipping by Earth and is now visible for the first time since before Galileo invented his telescope.

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