Temperatures will start to get colder in western Minnesota Thursday. Highs will be mostly in the teens east to single digits west by the afternoon. Subzero temperatures will grip all of Minnesota this weekend. We’re also watching a big storm to our south. A winter storm watch is posted for southern Minnesota for Thursday evening through Friday night. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: All things art and where to go to experience it with Art Hounds, members of the Minnesota Uber/Lyft Drivers Association plan to strike at the airport, plus news on the University of Minnesota's health task force.
Coming up at 9 a.m.: Leo Lewis III is stepping down as the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s reigning King Boreas. Angela Davis talks with the former Vikings wide receiver about his football career, supporting children through his foundation and what it was like to represent Minnesota in parades around the country.
Council Member Saura Jost got bit by the politics bug back in the early 2000s when she was a student at Central High School in St. Paul. At the time she didn’t know of many other girls of color who shared her aspirations. A lot has changed since then.
Jost now finds herself as one of seven women on St. Paul’s seven-seat, part-time city council — a first for the city. All the council members are under 40. And all except one are women of color.
“I never would have thought when I was in high school working on politics that one day, you’d so quickly really have an all-women city council with so many women of color, and that also [I] get to be one of them.”
Hundreds of community members attended a vigil Wednesday evening for 22-year-old Shellby Marie Trettel, who worked as hotel clerk and was one of the victims of the Monday night shooting at the Super 8 motel, in Cloquet.
Authorities have not released information on a possible motive for the shooting. Investigators believe both men were guests at the motel, but did not provide further information on any known connections among the three people.
What else we're watching:
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe annual event highlights priorities, progress and cannabis plans. Band leaders are exploring spaces at both the band’s casinos in Onamia and Hinckley as possible sites for retail cannabis dispensaries.
Art Hounds: New theater at Raw Stages. David Cunningham’s “City Life” opens at Gallery 360. Raw Stages’ New Works Festival stages a different reading of a work-in-progress at History Theatre. Minneapolis band Sycamore Gap performs to benefit the Arbitrarium art house.
Vikings GM says he wants Cousins back at QB as roster remains under construction. QuarterbackKirk Cousins is due for a new contract, and Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah confirmed the team will offer him one.
Closing arguments to start in Trump civil fraud trial in New York. Trump and his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are accused of knowingly committing fraud by submitting financial statements that inflated the value of their properties and other assets.
