Tuesday will be windy and briefly warmer, but those blustery northwest winds are bringing back colder. Snow will likely develop in much of Minnesota Thursday and this weekend. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are showing up more frequently in garbage. As a result, local officials say they are causing more fires at waste handling sites. MPR News reporter Dan Gunderson brings us the story.
Coming up at 9 a.m.: Karen and Hmong parents in Minnesota say they are increasingly alarmed by the substance abuse they see in their communities’ youth. Opioids are the largest problem, specifically the deadly drug fentanyl. MPR News partnered with Sahan Journal to talk about this painful topic at a special North Star Journey Live event in mid-November, moderated by MPR News host Angela Davis and Sahan Journal’s Samantha HoangLong.
Minneapolis school board members on Tuesday will discuss how to close a $110 million deficit, but that annual effort to close budget gaps masks a much deeper problem in St. Paul and Minneapolis: Enrollment decline is a budget killer, and the kids likely aren’t coming back.
The Minneapolis district has seen its enrollment drop by nearly 20,000 students since 2000-01.
Open enrollment has played a role. The gap between the number of children in the city and the number enrolled in the district has grown significantly in the last two decades. But in recent years that has been less of a factor and declines have been driven primarily by a fall in the number of school-age children living in the city.
The biggest international grocery store in both North and South Dakota, the Asian and American Supermarket is celebrating just over one year at its new location, becoming more of an important cultural hub for the Fargo-Moorhead area.
The area’s diverse community convenes at the market, located at 1425 Main Ave., about a mile and a half from the Red River on the city’s east side.
“This place is not only a place for people to come to buy groceries. It means a lot to provide to the community, especially our culture,” said John Huynh, who runs the supermarket with his sister Sarah. “We get a chance to see people, you know, from our community, meet new people from different cultures and then bring all of them together.”
In Minneapolis’ Russian Art Museum, Ukrainian artist Vladimir Dikarev presents “Portal to the Surreal,” an exhibition celebrating 100 years of Surrealism with his dream-inspired, candy-colored landscapes
One hundred years ago, the Surrealism movement was born when French critic André Breton published the “Surrealist Manifesto,” a call to suppress conscious thought in making art — and in life. Surrealists, like the more anarchic Dadaists, were grappling with the dust and horror that remained in the wake of World War I.
To process and escape the absurdity of war, Surrealists tapped into the subconscious, channeling their dreams and subversive imaginations to create an alternate reality.
United Airlines CEO tries to reassure customers that the airline is safe. He says that a slew of recent incidents ranging from a piece of aluminum skin falling off a plane to another jet losing a wheel on takeoff will cause the airline to review its safety training for employees.
