☔ A slow-moving low-pressure system will lolligag across Minnesota on Thursday. Expect scattered rain and some thunderstorms throughout the day into Thursday night.
🌧️ It won’t rain all day, but most areas will see a couple of hours of rain. And a few storms could be strong to severe especially Thursday afternoon into evening. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
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| What's on the radio: Thursday, July 4 |
📻 We will air special programming during the day for the holiday. Regular programming will resume Friday, July 5.
🗳️ 9 a.m. — We, the voters
The left. The right. The disillusioned.
In this special program, derived from the highlights of the “We the Voters” issue weeks, host Steve Inskeep presents a one-hour dive into these topics to help people make sense of the issues. In new interviews, we will look at the records of Trump and Biden on all of these issues and hear how voters' opinions have evolved. More Than Music: The story of Lawrence Tibbett.
Lawrence Tibbett was born at the turn of the last century. Hailing from Bakersfield, California, he was an artist with a voice that could do it all. And he did. He was a great American opera singer. A baritone whose golden voice and good looks also saw him perform as a film actor and radio personality. How did the son of a part-time deputy sheriff, killed in a shootout with a desperado, become so famous? What does Tibbett’s story tell us about who gets to perform what today?📚 11 a.m. — Summer Reads from WNYC Tune in for some great recommendations, inspiration and good conversation with special guests sharing their favorite selections. Happy reading!
🪕 Noon — Minneculture: Saving Minnesotan old time music.
Mike Sawyer fell in love with old folk music in his 20s, picking up the banjo and playing at festivals and jams around the state. But after a while, he began to wonder why nearly all the songs he and his fellow musicians were playing came from Appalachia and the South. What happened to early musical traditions from Minnesota?🪖 12:30 p.m. – DeCoded Native Veterans in Minnesota who Helped Win World War II.
The government that tried to destroy Indigenous culture used it as a weapon on the battlefield. Most of the men who had been sworn to secrecy during the war kept those secrets as long as they lived.
Host Travis Zimmerman helps tell two stories: One about Lex Porter, an Ojibwe-speaking code talker from Grand Portage and a member of the Fond du Lac band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Nagaajiwanaang); the other about Reuben St. Clair, a Dakota-speaking coder talker from the Lower Sioux Indian Community (Mdewakanton). 🗽 'Recoding America'
On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti talks with author Jennifer Pahlka, about how we can reshape our government to work for us. Pahlka wrote the book “Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better.” |
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 | | Hundreds of Minneapolis park workers poised to strike for a week beginning July 4 |
The union representing workers says the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s latest contract proposal lacks sufficient wage raises and hazard protections. The park board says negotiations have been reasonable and in good faith. They are prepared to adjust maintenance service around a smaller staff.
“We love being civil servants,” arborist Scott Jaeger said. “That’s why all of us got into this job. It’s just, eventually your love for helping the community will stop once you can’t afford to pay the bills or live in the city that you serve. So eventually, that’s going to stop.” | |
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