Sept. 1, 2023

🌡️ Hot hot hot! It looks likely we’ll tie or break some records in the Twin Cities and much of Minnesota this weekend. Here are the current record highs for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport this weekend:

Saturday 97 degrees (1937)
Sunday 97 degrees (1925)
Labor Day 98 degrees (1925)

Check our latest Updraft.

In her new cookbook, Amy Thielen argues hosting should be more party than performance

Minnesota author and chef Amy Thielen is out with her third book, which she refers to as her “so-called entertaining book.” In it, she encourages hosts to drop the Martha Stewart act and reframe entertaining as the “radically casual art of cooking for others.”

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Infrequently Asked Questions: What happens to the animals after the fair?

This question is probably infrequently asked because the answer is, in part, a bit morbid. But the Minnesota State Fair is, at its heart, an agricultural exhibition and animals are a big part of that.

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🥛 Breakfast at the Minnesota State Fair: All-you-can-drink milk

Listen: Cooler temperatures and tamer crowds draw out early bird fairgoers. Morning Edition is finding out what they’re having for breakfast at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.

🔥 Minnesota State Fair officials offer tips for beating potential record heat this weekend

A triple-digit high temperature at the fair has only been recorded once — 104 degrees, back in 1931. The second-highest fair temperature — 99 degrees — was that same year, and forecasters say that’s within reach this weekend.

Man whose previous murder sentence was commuted faces new criminal charges

Burrell’s attorney Paul Applebaum says he has questions about the legality of the police stop, search and seizure. He said Burrell did not give the officer consent to search the SUV.

💰 UCare to pay $100M to settle legal dispute with the University of Minnesota

Under terms of the settlement announced Friday, UCare will control a majority of board positions to address its interest in expanding services, and the insurer will make four $25 million payments to the U of M over three years.

💜 Sisters celebrate 10 years of supporting Alzheimer's caregivers

Leah Huxtable and Eva Thompson’s mom Lucy was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2011. She was a fourth-grade public school teacher and Alzheimer’s awareness advocate since her own mother died from the disease in 1997.

🩺 Health data roundup: COVID's creep continues; a deep dive into diabetes rates

On Friday, the Minnesota Department of Health announced the Met Council’s environmental services division is transitioning away from regularly reporting on COVID levels at its Twin Cities wastewater treatment plant, the state’s largest.

- Sam Stroozas, MPR News

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