| 🗳️ Minnesota's primary election is on Tuesday. Want to learn more about candidates? Check out MPR News’ Voter Guides where candidates answered why they are running, their background and their priorities for their time in office. These guides can be read in English, Spanish, Somali and Hmong and are freely available through our website and through Populist, where you can build an address-specific ballot. | |
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| Coming up on Morning Edition |
🗳️ Tuesday is Primary Day in Minnesota. Voters will determine which candidates earn a spot on the November ballot. There are partisan contests for the U.S. Senate and House races, as well as several primary battles in the Minnesota Legislature. MPR News political reporter Dana Ferguson gives us a look at a competitive race in southeastern Minnesota where the political future of the longest-serving Republican member of the House is on the line.
🍺 The window for Minnesota's first marijuana business license applications closes tonight. Hemp-based THC drinks have filled the gap while the legalized recreational marijuana industry gets up and running. MPR News producer Gracie Stockton introduces us to an entrepreneur who's hoping to bring his niche beverage to new heights in the expanding cannabis economy. |
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🗒️ How can journalists reinvent the way they do their jobs, in an era of cutbacks and decline? MPR News host Angela Davis recently moderated two panels about the state of local news in Minnesota. The first is with funders who are pushing for new models to reinvigorate newsrooms across the state and the country. The second brings the conversation to news leaders across Minnesota.
📰On Monday, hear the first panel with funders and philanthropy leaders who are heading the charge to champion and reimagine local news. National and local leaders discuss why they believe journalism is essential for a functioning democracy, how business models could be changed to make newsrooms sustainable and how the unique challenges news faces in rural communities can be addressed. |
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 | | Local groups mobilize to support immigrant access to the polls |
Minnesota’s primary election is Tuesday and voting has already started. Voters will choose candidates for the November general election in various races, including the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state legislative seats and nonpartisan local positions.
Some local organizations are working to ensure voters in Latino, Somali, African diaspora and Hmong communities have the information and support they need to register to vote in the upcoming primary election. | |
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 | | Abrupt Rainbow Health closure sparks a scramble to fill gaps in care |
State and local agencies, former managers and other organizations are hurrying to reconnect clients to help after the sudden shutdown of Rainbow Health, a Twin Cities HIV and LGBTQ+ services clinic.
“It’s gonna take a village... It’ll be ongoing, working with the community and organizations and government funders to kind of figure out the long term solution and plan.”
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