Minnesota Now: Sept. 12, 2023
Metro Transit workers have voted to approve a strike. Union members authorized a strike during their last round of contract negotiations in 2020, but never stopped work. Is anything different this time around? We talk with the union’s president.
Leaders in Shakopee, Minn., backed off an attempt to block an affordable housing project under public pressure. We talk with the reporter who broke the story.
The Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf is 160 years old this month. We talk with two leaders from the school about how its mission has changed since the school was founded.
And you’ve heard about the Manhattan Project, but what if there was an Alaska Project? We learn the story behind a new sci-fi novel by Northfield, Minn., author Benjamin Percy.
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