🥵 Get ready for a steamy day Wednesday. Highs will be warming well into the 80s with some low 90s possible in southern Minnesota. We’ll also have high dew points in the 60s to near 70 degrees.
⛈️ A couple rounds of strong storms are likely to develop in the afternoon and evening hours. There’s an enhanced risk (level 3 of 5) of severe storms. Large hail, damaging wind gusts and isolated tornadoes are possible in some storms.
🏒 In the span of two weeks, Minnesota's Professional Women's Hockey League team won the inaugural Walter Cup championship, dismissed its general manager and drafted seven new players — one of whom is already a point of contention due to her support of transphobic content online. Joining us to talk about the fallout is Ian Kennedy with The Hockey News. He covers women's hockey, social issues and the global growth of the game.
📰 Stillwater prison's newspaper, the Prison Mirror, began publishing more than 150 years ago. The paper endures, covering prison life and offering advice on surviving behind bars. Even if the newspaper doesn’t circulate far beyond the prison yard, it can offer a sense of empowerment for its writers. NPR's Meg Anderson brings us the story.
🦝 And It was on this date six years ago when a raccoon became an Internet sensation as she scaled a 25-story building in downtown St. Paul. MPR News may not have been the first to see the raccoon, but our newsroom's rapt attention got #mprraccoon trending on X, then Twitter.
🏥 Perinatal mood disorders — such as postpartum depression and anxiety — are the most common complications during and after pregnancy. They impact one in five women. Yet 75 percent of those disorders go untreated. And they can have deadly consequences, such as suicide and overdoses. MPR News, host Angela Davis and her guests are talking about why perinatal mood disorders are so common, and the barriers that keep many new parents from seeking and receiving the help they need.
📞 And we want to hear from you, too. What was your experience with postpartum depression, anxiety or other perinatal mood disorders? What was your sign something was wrong? What helped you feel better? Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828 during the 9 a.m. hour.
Minnesotans are divided over Israel’s military action in Gaza as it responds to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, but it doesn’t appear to be a deciding factor for them in their November presidential vote, new poll results released Wednesday morning show.
About 40 percent of respondents said they approved of Israel’s military action in Gaza, while 44 percent disapproved and 15 percent weren’t sure, according to the poll commissioned by MPR News, KARE 11 and the Star Tribune.
Asked to identify their top issue in the 2024 election from a list, “protecting democracy” was at the top followed by “the economy and jobs” and “immigration.”
Americans waste more than one-third of available food. And that out-of-date salad or mushy banana tossed in the garbage contributes to increased emissions of methane, one of the most potent climate-warming gases.
Local governments across Minnesota are mandated by law to increase recycling of organic waste and they are expanding composting programs to keep food out of landfills. Controlled composting of the material reduces emissions of greenhouse gases that occur when organic material rapidly decays in a landfill.
At the Pope-Douglas organics recycling facility about a half hour west of Alexandria, food waste from five counties is turned into compost.
💔 Prince collaborator Sheila E. says she’s ’heartbroken’ at being turned away from Paisley Park. Sheila E. figured she’d be welcome if she showed up unannounced at Paisley Park, the studio where the percussionist once collaborated with her mentor and one-time fiancée, the late rock superstar Prince. She was wrong.
