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All Things Considered

Tom Crann
Tom Crann
Evan Frost | MPR News

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.

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Twin Cities is the first in the nation to get inflation below 2 percent annual rate

Twin Cities is the first in the nation to get inflation below 2 percent annual rate

In May, the annual inflation rate in the Twin Cities dropped below the Federal Reserve’s two percent target — making it the first major metropolitan area to do so. What’s behind the region’s relative success?
by Tom Crann and Ngoc Bui

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Montana youths win case against the state for climate change harms

Montana youths win case against the state for climate change harms

A legal victory this week for 16 young people who sued the state of Montana over their right to a “clean and healthful environment”, as laid out in the state constitution. So, what’s next?
by Paul Huttner and Ngoc Bui

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Feds charge another 14 people in Minneapolis gang crackdown

Feds charge another 14 people in Minneapolis gang crackdown

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against an additional 14 alleged members of Minneapolis street gangs. The new criminal complaints follow similar charges brought in May against 45 suspected members of the Highs and Bloods.
by Matt Sepic

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Walz says tax rebates will help with back to school shopping

Walz says tax rebates will help with back to school shopping

The governor promoted rebates arriving in Minnesotan’s bank accounts this week as a back-to-school stimulus. And he responded to complaints from Republican leaders that the $260 rebates were much less than the DFLer promised last year on the campaign trail.
by Brian Bakst

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Long before latest push to bring high tech to north Minneapolis there was Microtron

Long before latest push to bring high tech to north Minneapolis there was Microtron

There’s a new push to bring high tech businesses and jobs to north Minneapolis. However, 35 years ago a pioneering Black business owner named Beck Horton — and his now defunct company Microtron — did just that.
by Jae Bryson

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'It is a year of remembrance': The legacy of cluster bombs in Laos fifty years on

'It is a year of remembrance': The legacy of cluster bombs in Laos fifty years on

Today marks exactly fifty years since the last cluster bombs were dropped in Laos — the most bombed country of any in the world. Fifty years on, some of these bombs still remain in the soil. Now, one organization is working to make sure history does not get repeated.
by Tom Crann and Ngoc Bui

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