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Temperatures continue to warm to readings that will be 10 to 15 degrees above normal midweek. Highs Tuesday will be near 80 for the Twin Cities and into the 80s west. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: As part of MPR News’ Getting to Green series, we take a look at how school districts are switching over to renewable energy sources. Reporter Hannah Yang visits St. Peter Public Schools and brings us the story of how a grant program is helping power their school buildings. 

🎧 Coming up at 9 a.m.: Listen to a rebroadcast of a conversation MPR News host Angela Davis had earlier this year with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the first Black journalists to hold high-profile positions in major newsrooms, about her latest book, “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives.” 
 
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Surge of interest in K-12 Solar for Schools program

More K-12 school districts are installing solar energy systems, saving them thousands of dollars in utility bills. But initial startup costs can halt a lot of them in their tracks. A state grant program allows more districts to make the transition to solar energy.

In 2021, the state legislature established the Solar for Schools incentive program. It provides financial and technical assistance to districts wanting to install solar energy systems. The program also requires districts to integrate their solar energy projects into curriculum and make it a learning tool in the classroom.

 
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Minneapolis sets aside $1M for another possible indoor, tiny home village

On Monday, the 12 council members present at a budget meeting voted to take $1 million from the city’s contingency funds that could lead to additional state money for another such village near the recently cleared encampment. 

“People deserve safe and dignified housing,” Minneapolis Council Member Jason Chavez said. “I’m not saying it is particularly perfect or that it’s meant for every single person that is out on the street, but I will say we are in an emergency and it is a model that will help change a lot of people's lives here in Minneapolis.”

 
What else we're watching:
New exhibit aims to tell fuller history of Bdote and Fort Snelling. The fort was part of the backdrop of Dred Scott v. Sandford and the site of a Japanese language school during World War II. For years, the Minnesota Historical Society has been working to revamp its museum at the fort to better represent all of these stories.

Navigating marijuana legalization in greater Minnesota. It’s been more than a month since marijuana became legal in Minnesota and many communities are still reeling at the number of possibilities that may arise from this landmark piece of legislation.

With raptor migration underway, meet two birds that may be passing through your neighborhood.  MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talked with Lori Arent, assistant director of the University of Minnesota Raptor Center, to get to know two birds on the move in Minnesota this month.

UAW strike Day 5: New Friday deadline set in latest turn in union strategy. Simultaneous strikes against the Detroit Big 3 are unprecedented in UAW history. The roughly 13,000 auto workers already on strike account for just a fraction of the unionized auto workforce, but the threat of growing the strike has added pressureand kept the companies guessing. 


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