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🌧️ Scattered showers and some thunder will push into far western Minnesota later into Friday. It won’t be a steady, pouring rain but rather scattered in nature. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
 
Coming up on Morning Edition
Do Minnesotans still think presidential debates are important? Particularly in such a polarized election year, fraught with AI concerns and echo chambers on social media? An expert explains. Dan Myers, an Assistant Professor who studies political psychology and communication at the U of M, shares his insight.

The flooding we're seeing across the state put the exclamation point on what was an especially soggy spring. It'll be one Minnesotans talk about for years to come. And Meteorologist and Climatologist Mark Seeley joins us all morning long.

 
Coming up at 11 a.m.

📖 Taiyon Coleman has been writing since she was a child. At age eight, she announced to her family that a novel was in the works. Today, she’s a published author and a professor of literature at St. Catherine University. But the road from there to here wasn’t as straight-forward as you might think.

📻 Coleman joins host Kerri Miller on Big Books and Bold Ideas this week to talk about what happened in the in-between. Some of it is detailed in her new collection of personal essays, “ Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America.”
 
Minnesota folk and blues community unites to honor 'Spider' John Koerner’s life, music and legacy

Charlie Parr, Paul Metsa and the Cactus Blossoms were among the local musicians who put their own twists on “Spider” John Koerner songs. The humble musician, beloved by Bonnie Raitt and Bob Dylan, died last month at 85.

“He was not about celebrity, not at all. Anonymous man and all that, including himself,” Steve Mayer said. “He was one of the most humble, self-effacing people I’ve ever heard.”
 
Four takeaways from the first presidential debate
Democrats are ringing the fire alarms after the first general-election presidential debate of 2024. The Biden campaign said the president had a cold to explain why he sounded so hoarse and weak. But Biden’s stumbles right from the beginning played into his biggest vulnerability — his age and whether the 81-year-old is up to the challenge of handling four more years in office.
 
What else we're watching:

🏠 Job Interview: Restoration expert rebuilds homes and hope. Flooding across the state means homes are affected by heavy damage. One restoration expert explains it is critical to approach families with compassion before the reconstruction begins.

🌊 What is a flood stage? And why does measuring rivers matter? An expert explains.
Storms are getting stronger and more frequent with climate change, often meaning rivers rising and flooding more quickly, threatening landscapes, infrastructure and lives.

🚧 Professional help: Help me zipper merge. Construction season is here. And there’s no doubt you’ve encountered orange cones — sometimes that means zipper merging. We all like to think we know what we’re doing,  but many agree that Minnesotans aren’t the best at zipper merging.

💊 Health insurers cover fewer drugs and make them harder to get. Insurance companies are covering fewer drugs than they used to, and patients have to jump through more hoops to get many of them. When shopping for insurance, check for coverage of the drugs you need.




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