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All Things Considered

Tom Crann
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All Things Considered, with Tom Crann in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington, is your comprehensive source for afternoon news and information. Listen from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every weekday.

Appetites | Climate Cast | Brains On | Cube Critics

Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld’s new book delves into love, friendship and being wrong

Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld’s new book delves into love, friendship and being wrong

Curtis Sittenfeld writes fiction based on what “fascinates and perplexes” her. Her newest collection of short stories “Show Don’t Tell” continues that theme.
by Euan Kerr

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Slowing climate change by ‘putting carbon back where it came from’

Slowing climate change by ‘putting carbon back where it came from’

MPR News chief meteorologist Paul Huttner talks with Ben Grove, with the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force, about decarbonizing the atmosphere to address climate change.
by Paul Huttner and Matthew Alvarez

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Latino business owners say customers are staying away in wake of deportation threats

Latino business owners say customers are staying away in wake of deportation threats

Some Latino business owners say customers have been staying away out of fear of being detained and deported. Twin Cities business and city leaders are encouraging people to buy from Latino-owned shops this Saturday.
by Regina Medina

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Public health worker in Minneapolis laid off in mass firings by the Trump administration

Public health worker in Minneapolis laid off in mass firings by the Trump administration

MacClement Guthrie was working with Minneapolis schools on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections as a part of a fellowship program under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when he was let go suddenly.
by Tom Crann and Ngoc Bui

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Appetites: How to cook PFAS-free now that Minnesota ban is in effect

Appetites: How to cook PFAS-free now that Minnesota ban is in effect

Nicole Hvidsten, taste editor at the Minnesota Star Tribune, offers tips on how to check if your cookware contains PFAS and suggests non-stick alternatives now that these “forever chemicals” are banned in Minnesota.
by Tom Crann and Ngoc Bui

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‘Outrageous’ and ‘chilling’: Local orgs react to new DEI restrictions from the National Endowments for the Arts

‘Outrageous’ and ‘chilling’: Local orgs react to new DEI restrictions from the National Endowments for the Arts

The Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis has rejected a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts due to new federal restrictions barring grant recipients from promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and gender ideology, joining a growing number of arts organizations nationwide in condemning the policy.
by Alex V. Cipolle

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Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier welcomed home after release from prison

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier welcomed home after release from prison

After nearly 50 years of incarceration, Native American political activist Leonard Peltier has been released from prison. Former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence in January before leaving office. In 1977 Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two FBI agents. 
by Allison Herrera and Chandra Colvin

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Prosecutor says Feeding Our Future defendant approached witness in effort to ‘corrupt’ process

Prosecutor says Feeding Our Future defendant approached witness in effort to ‘corrupt’ process

Abdinasir Abshir, who’s scheduled to face trial in April, allegedly approached witness Sharmake Jama in a courthouse hallway while testimony was underway.
by Matt Sepic

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83 years after mass incarceration, Japanese Americans warn it could happen again

83 years after mass incarceration, Japanese Americans warn it could happen again

Executive Order 9066 led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Vinicius Taguchi of the Japanese American Citizens League sees parallels between this troubling history and the present.
by Tom Crann and Ngoc Bui

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