It’ll be a blustery Thursday as cooler air sweeps across Minnesota. Winds will blow at 15 to 30 mph with gusts over 35 mph. That Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: The State Emblems Redesign Commission unfurled what could be Minnesota's biggest art critique in history by publishing more than 2,100 proposed flag designs sent in by the public. Politics reporter Dana Ferguson fills us in on the flag frenzy.
Coming up at 9 a.m.: Listen back to a conversation MPR News host Angela Davis had with veterans on Veterans Day in 2021 about what we mean when we thank veterans for their service and about their sometimes complicated relationships with their military experience.
Plus, at 9:30 a.m., hear the audio documentary “DeCoded: Native Veterans in Minnesota Who Helped Win World War II” about the Ojibwe and Dakota speakers who were recruited by the U.S. military to transmit encrypted battlefield messages.
Minnesota voters backed school funding, union-endorsed candidates at the polls
Minnesota voters on Tuesday approved union-endorsed school board candidates and school funding in competitive and unusually well-funded off-year elections with more than 40 districts seeking to fill board seats and 60 asking for funding approval.
The conservative Minnesota Parents Alliance saw 10 of its 44 endorsed candidates win board seats in seven districts throughout the state, including two seats in Anoka-Hennepin, the state’s largest district.
Teachers unions, though, continued to show their longtime strength getting their candidates elected. Voters approved 85 percent of union-endorsed school board candidates.
Members of Minnesota’s Ukrainian community and Minnesota state legislators gathered Wednesday at the State Capitol to mark the anniversary of the Holodomor, the catastrophic famine inflicted by Joseph Stalin in 1932-33.
Several million people died in that famine — labeled a genocide by Ukraine and over 30 other countries, including the United States. Holodomor translates to “death by starvation.”
What else we're watching:
Art Hounds: Three very different plays about immigration. Art Hounds recommend three very different plays in the Twin Cities that have immigration as a theme . Combustible Theatre resurrects Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 play “The Hairy Ape,” Full Circle Theater stages “Anon(ymous)” and Fortune Fool’s new musical “Cold Planet Warm Heart.”
Emerging Farmers office pushes to support more Black Minnesotan farmers. A history of discrimination in loan programs and other policies led to a precipitous drop in Black-owned farms throughout the last century. State lawmakers created the Emerging Farmers office in 2021 and expanded it last session.
