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Rain is likely starting in western Minnesota Friday night and across most of the state into Saturday and Sunday. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

🎧 Coming up at 11 a.m.: A sold-out crowd welcomed Dr. Abraham Verghese to the stage of the Fitzgerald Theater for the kick-off of the 2023 Talking Volumes series. Listen back to the conversation with Kerri Miller and don't forget to buy your tickets to our other Talking Volumes events.
 
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In St. Paul schools, gender-neutral bathrooms have proven safer for all students

Gender-neutral bathrooms in schools have been the focus of questions and political debate across the country. Johnson Senior High School in St. Paul, which made all of its bathrooms gender neutral in 2016, has some answers.

 
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McKnight Prize recognizes Pangea's Dipankar Mukherjee

The McKnight Foundation has announced its 2023 Distinguished Artist Award recipient today. Theater maker and artistic director of Pangea World Theater Dipankar Mukherjee of Minneapolis received the prestigious award.  

Every year, the McKnight Foundation awards the $100,000 prize to a “Minnesota artist or culture bearer who has made significant contributions to the state’s cultural life,” according to a press release.  
 
What else we're watching:
Early voting for November elections has begun. Here's what to know. While there are no statewide or federal elections on the ballot this year, cities and towns across Minnesota will vote on mayors, city council and school board members.

Street art from Floyd protests gets permanent home. A group that collected and preserved hundreds of plywood murals from the George Floyd protests has found a permanent home for them.

City of Minneapolis plans to sell two lots to Red Lake Nation for $1 each. Plans are moving forward for two lots that have been vacant for decades off Lake Street in south Minneapolis, where members of Red Lake Nation are working to build a healing center and garden focused on serving Indigenous people living in the city.  

Local filmmaker's first feature film set where he fell in love with movies — Vali-Hi. A local indie filmmaker is debuting his first feature film called “Bobby’s Intermission.” And it takes place somewhere that many of us know and love: Vali-Hi Drive-In, in the Lake Elmo area in the Twin Cities. 

Minnesota approves giant solar energy project near Minneapolis. Minnesota officials on Thursday approved plans for the expansion of a solar energy project that a utility says will be one of the largest in the country with the capability of powering more than 150,000 homes.

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