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Photos: Prime time for fall color

Photos: Prime time for fall color

The Minnesota DNR fall color map indicates that state is hitting the sweet spot for leaf watchers. Members of the Minnesota Public Radio News Flickr pool are capturing some great images of the transition from summer to winter across the state. Photo by Darcy Sime via Flickr Photo by Ken Greshowak via Flickr Photo by Read more →
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What would it take for you to improve your view of Congress?

What would it take for you to improve your view of Congress?

People in the U.S. regularly have a dim view of Congress, but a new public opinion poll by the Associates Press indicates only 5% of Americans have a positive view of Congress. “The point of the poll was generally to gauge Americans’ reaction to the shutdown, which was already several days old when the polling…
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Southwest LRT committee recommends shallow tunnel

Southwest LRT committee recommends shallow tunnel

An advisory committee for the Southwest light rail project voted nearly unanimously Wednesday to recommend to the Metropolitan Council that the light rail trains run underground in a shallow tunnel through the scenic and narrow Kenilworth Corridor of Minneapolis, keeping freight alongside it. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak was the lone “no” vote. The long-awaited vote Read more →
by Liala Helal

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If you could take a pill to slow aging, would you?

If you could take a pill to slow aging, would you?

“While the anti-aging ‘cures’ being marketed these days are largely snake oil, in the laboratory scientists have managed to extend the lives of laboratory animals. And they have a better understanding of the mechanisms of biological aging,” writes NPR’s Ina Jaffe. That’s good news if you’re a lab rat, but at present there are no…
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UPDATE: Victim says Vegas stowaway was driver of stolen truck

UPDATE: Victim says Vegas stowaway was driver of stolen truck

A 9-year-old boy believed to have stowed away on a flight to Las Vegas last week may have had some contact with authorities just days before — literally. He may have crashed a truck into an Edina squad car.
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Should kids be playing football?

Should kids be playing football?

“If 10 percent of mothers come to believe that football is dangerous — to the point of brain damage, effectively — that’s the end of football as we know it,” — pathologist Bennet Omalu. Mark Fainaru-Wada and his brother, Steve Fainaru, have written a new book called League of Denial, which was also turned into…
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