🌧️ Rain showers will move through Minnesota Tuesday morning with some spotty redevelopment later in the day Tuesday. Wednesday will be steamy with highs warming into the upper 80s and low 90s across southern Minnesota, along with the possibility of strong to severe storms. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
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🕯️A memorial will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday for Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell, who was shot and killed in the line of duty last month. Reporter Sarah Thamer joins us live from Maple Grove High School as fellow officers, loved ones and community members gather to honor Mitchell's service and sacrifice.
Coming up at 9 a.m.
📖 Anton Treuer and David Treuer spent their childhood together on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, in a house that had no electricity or running water. The brothers went on to graduate from Princeton University and become writers and college professors known for exploring and reclaiming Ojibwe culture. MPR News host Angela Davis continues her Power Pair series with the Treuer brothers.
📞 And we want to hear from you, too. What questions do you have for David Treuer and Anton Treuer about their work and their relationship as brothers? Or maybe there’s something you’ve wanted to know about being Indigenous, specifically about being Ojibwe in Minnesota, but have been afraid to ask? Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828 during the 9 a.m. hour.
Police officials say the memorial service for Jamal Mitchell will begin Tuesday at 11 a.m. and is expected to draw thousands of police officers from across the state and country.
Mitchell, 36 was hired by the Minneapolis Police Department in 2022. He moved to Minnesota about five years ago and had been living in Minneapolis with his long-term partner, Tori Myslajek, with whom he was raising four children ages four, seven, nine and 20-years-old.
MPR News will have live coverage of the memorial service online and on the radio.
For Pride Month, MPR News is interviewing people about how the experience of coming out created a family rift — and how it was resolved. These conversations are part of our Talking Sense project, which helps Minnesotans have hard conversations, better.
Siblings Forest Clarke and Anne Downs grew up feeling like twins born two years apart. But when Clarke came out, a chasm grew in this once close relationship. A global pandemic, a letter and years of introspection brought them back together.
Like principals around the country, Amy Kujawski knew cellphones and schools didn’t mix. This year, she found a fix that worked for students, teachers and families. It could be a model for Minnesota.
“The number of power struggles we were having in any given day over students and their cell phones — that put our teachers already in a place of just agitating the students,” Kujawski said.
“It would impact just how they behaved in real time in school,” she added. “If it was the end of the class period, and their work was done, they would pick up their phones, and that’s where their faces and attention would be. When no one has their phones out, it allows for more real-time, face-to-face conversation.”
🗳️ Minnesota Chippewa Tribe voters head to the polls to determine next phase of leadership. Minnesota Chippewa Tribe voters head to the polls Tuesday to elect leadership across the six member nations. Tribal leaders consider issues related to regional and state politics, including cannabis dispensaries and grow facilities and the restoration of tribal lands.
