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- Downtown Minneapolis is struggling. Would a new Wolves and Lynx arena help?
MPR’s Gretchen Brown reports on renewed efforts on bringing a new basketball arena to downtown Minneapolis. Brown looks at the past here and recent efforts in other cities as an indicator to what may come of it.
- ‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
MPR’s Jon Collins reports on efforts by local community members to be watchers of ICE actions as federal deployment of ‘Metro Surge’ impacts the Twin Cities.
- Appetites: New Latino supermarket offers pieces of home for its Richfield customers
On this episode of Appetites, MPR’s Regina Medina takes an audio tour of the newest Lomabonita Market in Richfield.
- 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.
- As milk prices dropped, these Minnesota farmers put their cows out to cuddle
MPR’s Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval reports that as milk prices dropped, a family dairy farm in the town of Corcoran has put their cows out to cuddle…thus, Curious Cows and Company was born. For $25, anyone can spend 30 minutes with their calves, brushing their coats and feeding them hay.
- ‘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.
- Restored tribal land ends uncertainty for a family living on Mille Lacs Lake
MPR’s Melissa Olson reports on the restoration of 18 acres on the south side of Mille Lacs Lake. The action means an end to decades of uncertainty for one family.
- 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.
- Minnesota OK’d free menstrual products in schools, but that hasn’t solved the problem
MPR’s Sam Stroozas reports that while Minnesota OK’d free menstrual products in schools, it hasn’t solved the problem of accessibly, leading to what some term as “period poverty.”
- 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.