The warming trend begins Friday afternoon with highs in the 60s. Then we'll see the warmest weekend in Minnesota in more than six months. Highs will reach the 70s across much of Minnesota Saturday and Sunday. Showers and thunder develop Monday. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: The Frozen Four continues tomorrow at the Xcel Energy Center. And even though no regional teams made it to the semifinals, three Minnesotans are on the teams vying for the national title. Joining us with what to expect Saturday night as No. 1 Boston College takes on No. 3 Denver is Sam Stockton, reporter with The Hockey News and co-host of The Silky Mitten State podcast.
Coming up at 11 a.m.: Many of their names are unknown, but early American feminists fought hard for the freedoms that are cornerstones to democracy. This week on Big Books and Bold Ideas, historian Elizabeth Cobbs and our new series, “Big Books, Bold Americans.”
Many Duluth residents and social media denizens are still indignant over billionaire Kathy Cargill’s recent purchases of more than a dozen homes on the city’s Park Point — and her comments calling the homes she subsequently demolished “pieces of crap” and Duluth “a small-minded community.”
Behind the uproar, locals will tell you the neighborhood that stretches seven miles into Lake Superior along a narrow, sandy beach has been changing for years, long before Kathy Cargill’s buying spree.
The Korean tradition of kimjang, a community gathering to make large batches of the spicy fermented cabbage delicacy known as kimchi, recently took on an added Minnesota flavor. A group of strangers, bound by an interest in food, gathered to chop, salt and spice, and maybe launch a new tradition of their own.
MPR News senior reporter Hannah Yang joined them. Here's what she saw.
Tropes & Trifles opens in Minneapolis on Saturday. The bookstore will only sell romance novels, joining the ranks of several other stores across the country. Co-owners Caitlin O’Neil and Lauren Richards say they are confident the store will have a happy ending, or rather, beginning.
Listen: Civil rights leader Ethel Ray Nance to be honored in Duluth and in new biography. Ethel carved her own path, becoming the first Black woman to work as a stenographer at the Minnesota Legislature, an executive secretary for W.E.B Du Bois and one of the first Black policewomen in Minnesota.
