🌥️ Temperatures will fall into the 40s across much of northern Minnesota by Friday morning. Look for temperatures in the 80s by the middle of next week with dry conditions. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
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🎙️ It's been only three days since Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, and it seems like his rise to the presidential ticket happened in the blink of an eye. But as a story in The New York Times tells it, there's been a quiet, subterranean effort by Walz and his aides to build his national profile. MPR News host Cathy Wurzer spoke to Reid Epstein — one of the the reporters on that story — about when those efforts began.
🗳️ Minnesota's primary election is next week, and there is one state Senate seat on this year’s election ballot — and it’s a big one. The winner will deliver their party the majority heading into the 2025 session. Democrats first need to decide who to put up against a Republican who has run in the western suburban district before. Ellie Roth reports on the Senate District 45 DFL primary. |
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📚 A.J. Jacobs went back to the 1700s and carried a wooden musket, wore a tricorn and wrote with a quill, so he could inhabit the mindset of the Founding Fathers for his new book, "The Year of Living Constitutionally." He talks about it with host Kerri Miller on Big Books & Bold Ideas. |
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 | | What Mr. Walz’s former students have to say about the Democratic VP nominee |
For most Americans, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s campaign debut with Vice President Harris this week is an introduction. For his former students, it’s the culmination of a rise they’ve been relishing for years.
Before landing on Harris’s radar, Walz was a global studies teacher and assistant football coach at Mankato West High School in the 1990s and early 2000s. Mr. Walz ended his teaching career when he won a seat in Congress in 2006, but Walz’s students still remember him fondly to this day.
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 | | Great-grandson remembers Minnesota man who won rowing gold at 1924 Paris Olympics |
Liam Goff’s great-grandfather, Minneapolis native Alfred Wilson, was on the team representing the U.S. in men’s eight rowing at the Paris Games a century ago.
Wilson and the Yale rowing team won gold with a time of 6 minutes and 33.4 seconds in 1924. At the 2024 Olympics, the men’s eight rowing gold went to Great Britain with a time of 5 minutes and 22.88 seconds, and the U.S. won bronze at 5 minutes and 25.28 seconds. | |
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 | | Review: Vinai gives you a big Vang for your buck |
After five years of development, Chef Yia Vang’s restaurant Vinai has opened in northeast Minneapolis. Jacob Aloi reviews.
Vang has said that Vinai is a love letter to his parents. The menu demonstrates that. It features food that Vang has described as reflecting how he ate growing up in a Hmong household. | |
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🗳️ Democratic primary for west metro seat will tee up special Senate election. The seat opened after former state Sen. Kelly Morrison stepped down to run for Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District seat. Morrison’s departure left the state Senate split 33-33.
🗣️ Trump recommits to a Sept. 10 debate and lashes out at Harris at news conference. Donald Trump recommitted to debating Vice President Kamala Harris after recently backing out, holding a lengthy news conference Thursday in which he taunted his new rival, boasted of his crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and lashed out at questions about the enthusiasm her campaign has been generating.
🏒 Mike Sertich, longtime Minnesota Duluth hockey coach, dies at 77. The 1984 coach of the year, Sertich led the Bulldogs to three WCHA regular-season titles and two league playoff championships.
🖼️ The MacRostie Art Center: A hub for art in Grand Rapids. Katie Marshall has led the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids, Minn., for 13 years, making it a welcoming community hub that hosts diverse exhibitions and supports local and Native artists.
💒 Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Wedding People’ by Alison Espach. Maggie Robe of Flyleaf Books recommends Alison Espach’s new dark comedy, “The Wedding People.”
🎞️ Cube Critics discuss ‘The Boyfriend’ and ‘I Saw the TV Glow.’ Cube Critics Jacob Aloi and Max Sparber discuss a gay dating show from Japan and a horror film about the trans experience.
— Sam Stroozas and Anna Haecherl, MPR News |
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