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Vice presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance face off in New York on a national stage for the first time — and probably the last time. We heard the latest from our politics team at the scene ahead of Tuesday night’s debate.
Minnesotans have had a while to get to know Tim Walz, but in Ohio, JD Vance’s political career is relatively new. We heard from a reporter in his home state about Vance’s political reputation there.
48 years ago another Minnesotan VP candidate was taking the stage for his very first debate, some of which was quite memorable. We travelled back in time to Walter Mondale’s 1976 debate.
Did you know Minnesota is home to one of the largest jigsaw puzzle competitions in the world? A puzzler fresh off a world championship joined the show to give the insider details.
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Tickets went live Tuesday for one of the largest jigsaw puzzling competitions in the world. It takes place at the St. Paul Winter Carnival.
Sarah Schuler just returned from Spain after her team placed fifth in the World Jigsaw Competition in Spain. She will attend the jigsaw competition at the St. Paul carnival, which is about the same size as the worldwide competition. She joined Minnesota Now to dive into the world of puzzling.
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In Minnesota, voters on both sides of the aisle have had more time to get to know Gov. Tim Walz than his opponent. Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance gained national recognition for his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” back in 2016, but his political career is relatively new.
Vance was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022, thanks in part to the endorsement of former president Donald Trump. Sarah Donaldson has been covering Vance since that election. She’s a reporter for the Statehouse News Bureau in Ohio and she joined Minnesota Now to explain Vance’s rise and predict his moves for Tuesday evening’s debate.
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Minnesota’s new climate laws passed in 2023 require all electricity in the state to come from carbon-free sources by the year 2040. But it’s up to regulators to decide what exactly counts as carbon free — the key question that has arisen is whether burning trash and timber for energy should be a part of the mix.
There may not be an answer until the end of 2025 after the Public Utilities Commission recently moved to delay the decision. Andrew Hazzard has been following this. He covers climate change and environmental justice for Sahan Journal and he joined Minnesota Now to talk about his reporting.
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Vice presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance are in New York preparing for their first — and probably last — debate Tuesday evening. The two relatively little-known politicians will introduce themselves to the country and try to avoid any slip ups on the big stage.
MPR News senior politics reporter Dana Ferguson joined host Cathy Wurzer to talk about the stakes of the debate, the arguments the candidates will make and where each candidate could stand to gain ground.
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This hot and dry September has raised the risk of wildfires. We get details on a red flag warning in effect Monday for much of the state.
And the remains of two boys who died at a boarding school have returned to White Earth. We have more on the effort to bring them home.
Baby Boomers and Millennials may not have the same “American Dream.” We talk to a Minnesota professor who is studying the differences.
Gov. Tim Walz used to talk a lot about his experience in China. But on the campaign trail, he doesn’t mention it. We dig into his time there and its political weight.
Plus, it was a major weekend in sports. Sports guys Wally Langfellow and Eric Nelson talk through that Vikings-Packers game, the Karl Anthony Towns trade and more.
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Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance descend on New York tomorrow for the first — and only — Vice Presidential debate. Walz’s campaign has introduced him to the nation as a Midwestern dad and high school football coach.
But Walz is also a world traveler, with a deep experience in China. It’s a fact he used to brag about — and sometimes exaggerate — earlier in his political career. But now that he’s running for vice president, his campaign barely mentions it.
MPR News host Cathy Wurzer dove deeper into the story with Curtis Gilbert, senior editor with APM Reports.
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How do you define the “American Dream?” Is it a white picket fence? A home in the suburbs? A general feeling of security?
A study from Minnesota State University - Mankato asked Millennials and Baby Boomers what the American Dream looked like in their eyes and found some generational differences.
Kristin Scott is a professor of Marketing at MSU Mankato and the primary author of the study. She joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer to talk about it.
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The dry and warm weather over the past few weeks have come together to create the perfect conditions for a wildfire. So much so that the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning for 39 counties in central, northeast, northwest and southwest Minnesota.
To explain that risk, Karen Harrison, a wildfire prevention specialist from the Department of Natural Resources, spoke with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer.
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Minnesota has the highest concentration of Korean adoptees of any state in the U.S.
A new investigation by the Associated Press revealed widespread corruption in the Korean adoption system that has many adoptees questioning what they’ve been told about their past.
The report found South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable means.
Sara Docan-Morgan is a professor of Communication Studies at University of Wisconsin - La Crosse and she thinks a lot about the complications that come with being adopted from Korea by an American family.
This year she published a book called In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family. She spoke with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about it.
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A meal at the dinner table with friends and family is one of the ways we can connect with people in a meaningful way. When someone dies, it’s common to bring food to provide care and comfort and love. A new cookbook is helping cherish the memories of loved ones we have lost.
“Good Grief! What’s for Dinner?” is a collection of more than 200 recipes curated by the Grief Club of Minnesota.
Annie Sperling helped put together the cookbook with her widow group at the Grief Club. She talked with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about it.
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The southeastern U.S. is preparing for the potentially deadly Hurricane Helene, which is set to hit Florida’s coast this evening. One Minnesotan who now lives in Florida has been through several severe storms and talks about bracing for this one.
Plus, the author of a brand-new cookbook about grief, and how food brings us together.
Minnesota has the highest concentration of Korean adoptees in the nation. We hear from one adoptee whose life work focuses on navigating that identity.
We hear from one woman who is building the ultimate Minnesota bucket list.
And we look back on a pioneering rural ambulance service.
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Taking an ambulance to a hospital looked a lot different 70 or 80 years ago. Its job was to get you to the hospital quickly, not as much about medical treatment along the way.
A pioneering ambulance service in Southern Minnesota helped improve survival rates and professionalize the job to what it is today: a hospital on wheels.
A new exhibit at the History Center of Olmsted County puts the spotlight on Gold Cross Ambulance and its advances, and a panel discussion Thursday night aims to find solutions for the challenges that remain in rural emergency medical services.
Wayne Gannaway is the history center's executive director. He spoke with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about the exhibit.
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Our “Thank You, Stranger” series is about the people who come into our lives and lend a little support, maybe make our days a little brighter.
This one focuses on a woman who started building a bucket list after finding out she was sick — and leaned on hundreds of strangers for their help.
Marcia Spring from Bloomington spoke with MPR News producer Ellen Finn.
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The state of Florida, along with the entire southeastern U.S, is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Helene.
By the time it makes landfall, the National Hurricane Center is predicting it will be a major storm with winds above 100 miles per hour. Forecasters are also predicting a deadly storm surge along Florida’s Big Bend, where water levels could be as high as 20 feet, because of that, here could be dangerous flooding all along Florida’s west coast, where my next guest lives.
Since moving to Florida from Minnesota in the late 1980s, Cheryl Magnuson has been through several big storms. She talked with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about preparing for this one.
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Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and podcaster. Season 2 of her podcast “This Land,” from Crooked Media which delved into the 40 year-long fight over the Indian Child Welfare Act was nominated for a Peabody Award.
Her new book “By the Fire We Carry: The Generations Long Fight for Justice on Native Land” deeply reports the history behind the landmark McGirt v. Oklahoma decision, which resulted in the largest transfer of Native land in recent history. The book weaves together personal history, memoir, legal history and Native history to tell the story.
APM Reports’ Allison Herrera interviewed Rebecca Nagle, who is speaking at Birchbark Bizhiw in Minneapolis Wednesday night. Birchbark is owned by Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich.
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A second ballot error has been found in Minnesota, this time in Wabasha County. Secretary of State Steve Simon explains how these errors happen and their impact on voter trust.
A researcher is calling into question the validity of Blue Zones, areas where people live longer.
Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner has details on where you can see the leaves turning and how long this beautiful weather will last.
Plus, we hear a conversation with Indigenous author Rebecca Nagle about her new book chronicling the fight for tribal land.
And we meet the National Rural Teacher of the Year, a special education teacher in Cook County Schools.
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Many of us are trying to figure out the secret to a long life: why some people live longer and with less disease than the rest of us to 100 years old and beyond.
But new research out of the U.K. appears to debunk most instances of super centenarians, or extra-long lives, as fraud and bad record-keeping.
Saul Newman is behind this research. He is a senior research fellow at the University College London Centre for Longitudinal Studies. MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talked with him about his work, which recently won him an Ig Nobel Award from M.I.T. The award honors scientific achievements that “first make people laugh, then make people think.”
MPR News also reached out to the Blue Zones organization, which formed around the concept of areas of the world where people live significantly longer than elsewhere.
“The claims made by Newman are based on his highly questionable unpublished pre-print,” a Blue Zones spokesperson wrote in a statement. “Blue Zones and Mr. Buettner have debunked Mr. Newman’s hypotheses, which continue to fail to pass any scientific peer review.” The organization also published a blog post refuting the research.
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Some voters in Zumbro Falls, a town of 155 people in southeastern Minnesota, received the wrong ballots in the mail ahead of the November election.
The error comes just days after the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office announced a ballot misprint in Faribault County that incorrectly identified the parties of candidates for State House District 23A.
For more on the ballot misprints, MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talks with Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon.
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There has been nothing to complain about with this week’s weather, which has been sunny, seasonable and cool. But how long will it last? MPR Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner joins MPR News host Cathy Wurzer with a look at the forecast.
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