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☀️ Dew points will drop Tuesday, making for a more comfortable day. We’ll see highs range from the mid-80s south to mid-70s north on Tuesday afternoon with partly cloudy skies. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

 
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Large swaths of Minnesota are underwater or cleaning up from extreme flooding this week. Roads are closed and a dam near Mankato faces imminent failure. Our team updates us on the situation.

It's been one day since social equity candidates could apply for an adult-use cannabis business license. The highly anticipated program gives Minnesotans who've faced historic harms from the war on drugs a head start in building their enterprise, but did reality live up to expectation? Charlene Briner, interim director of the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management, brings us the answer.
 
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🗳️ MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst talks with presidential scholars and a former presidential candidate about the work it takes to prepare for a presidential debate. They'll discuss how Thursday’s debate between Biden and Trump could impact both campaigns over the next few months.

☎️ We want to hear from you, too. Are you planning to watch the first presidential debate for this election season? Is there anything either candidate could say on stage that would affect your vote? Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828 during the 9 a.m. hour. Or email your question or comment to talk@mprnews.org.
 
New rule gives tribal governments more input on state water quality standards

A new federal rule gives tribal governments more input as states develop water quality standards to protect lakes and streams. Minnesota officials are still working out how the rule might affect its regulatory process.

“I think it’s important, we’re going to be forming newer, stronger partnerships with the state and other agencies,” said Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Water Resources Program Manager Jeff Harper. “We never said that we would give up hunting, fishing, gathering. And to be able to do that we need to protect and have safe and usable water.”
 
As Legionnaires’ cases rise, Grand Rapids begins permanently chlorinating water supply

The northeast Minnesota city of Grand Rapids took a major step this week to combat an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease traced to the city’s water supply.

On Monday, Grand Rapids began permanently chlorinating its water. City officials hope the action will curb the perplexing outbreak, which started more than a year ago and has sickened nearly two dozen people.
 
What else we're watching:

🗣️ Political conversations at work may seem risky, but stifling them is too. Employees today are more likely to want to air opinions and feelings at work about political and cultural issues than in decades past, according to an expert in facilitating workplace conversations. Without that release valve, employees’ sense of cohesion and their desire to collaborate and innovate may suffer.

🖼️ Post-Depot: The Duluth Art Institute reopens in U.S. Bank building downtown. The Duluth Art Institute has relocated to a new gallery space on the fourth floor of the U.S. Bank Building in downtown Duluth.

🎧 Listen: Bassett Creek oral history project will be first gathering of suburban Indigenous stories in U.S. MPR News Native News senior editor Leah Lemm joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer to talk more about the stories and the people telling them.

🏒 Panthers win their 1st Stanley Cup, top Oilers 2-1 in Game 7. The Florida Panthers are champions for the first time after taking about the hardest path possible to the title.

🌑 China has just returned the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon. A Chinese probe has returned to Earth carrying the first samples ever taken from the far side of the moon. Scientists say the rocks inside the little space capsule could open a new window into how our nearest neighbor formed.


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