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Morning Edition
As a decades long staple to the listening audience, Morning Edition combines a host program in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, bringing news from overnight and information throughout the state and world. Programming includes reports and interviews.
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- 50 years later, the legacy of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looms as large as ever
MPR’s Dan Kraker reports that fifty years after the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the loss of a ship known as the “Titanic” of the Great Lakes remains one of the most famous shipwrecks in history. Kraker takes a look at what is known…and what questions remain.
- ‘Motherpuckers’ teach women’s hockey with joy and inclusion, and a little irreverence
MPR’s Dan Kraker profiles the Duluth hockey team ‘Motherpuckers,’ which teaches beginner hockey for women, nonbinary, and transgender people.
- In the Boundary Waters, tragedy highlights work of all-volunteer rescue squad
MPR’s Dan Kraker profiles the Saint Louis County Rescue Squad. For the past 66 years they've responded to emergencies across the Arrowhead, but none bigger than a recent one…in May of 2024, four canoeists were swept over a 30 foot waterfall in the Boundary Waters; two survived, and two disappeared. For more than two weeks, a small army of volunteers searched relentlessly for the missing paddlers.
- Job Interview: Working as a Mall of America landscaper can be a real roller coaster
On this segment of Job Interview, MPR’s Lukas Levin produced this profile on James Everhart, an interior landscaper at the Mall of America. He’s one of five people who tend the 30,000 actual living plants at the mall. Watering alone takes the crew half a day, but plant care at the mall isn’t just about watering.
- Minnesota’s rural ambulance providers look to state Capitol for their own lifeline
MPR’s Ellie Roth takes an ambulance ride along in Dodge County for a report on efforts by rural EMS services in Minnesota to get funding support from the Legislature. Ambulance services rely on being able to bill a patient’s insurance, but that depends on whether they transport that patient to the hospital. In Dodge Center, many times EMTs and paramedics are responding to calls that don’t require hospitalization.
- Nicole Lavoi on women's sports boom
MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Nicole LaVoi, director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, on the women’s sports boom in Minnesota.
- North Star Journey: MnDOT drivers are keeping Indigenous languages alive, one snowplow at a time
MPR’s Gracie Stockton reports that the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced that its plow-naming event will return for a fourth year. The contest offers people the chance to submit ideas and vote to pick eight winners, with the winning names going on plows in each of MnDOT's eight districts around the state. Some plow drivers are hoping more Indigenous names make the cut.
- 'Unapologetically Indigenous' mural preserved for future generations
MPR’s Melissa Olson reports that conservators and artists have worked nearly a year to restore a work of art created by artist George Morrison half a century ago. Morrison’s vision is felt by the people who helped to restore his work, and by those redesigning the building where the mural lives.
- In St. Paul schools, gender-neutral bathrooms have proven safer for all students
MPR’s Elizabeth Shockman visits St. Paul’s Johnson Senior High School, where gendered bathrooms have been replaced with installation of single-occupancy, gender-neutral restrooms. Shockman interviews school officials and students to get an idea on how the change benefits students.
- Lower Sioux Community explores reconciliation through an 'honor tax'
MPR’s Melissa Olson reports on Lower Sioux Community exploring reconciliation through an 'honor tax.' The Mni Sota Makoce Honor Tax was created as another way Minnesotans and Dakota people could build relationships.