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Morning Edition

Cathy Wurzer
Cathy Wurzer
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Morning Edition, with Cathy Wurzer in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, brings you all the news from overnight and the information you need to start your day. Listen from 4 to 9 a.m. every weekday.

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Your Smith plays the Fine Line on Tuesday night

Smith grew up in Detroit Lakes, and played in the Twin Cities music scene for years. Local fans were upset when she decided to relocate to L.A. several years ago, but Smith has said it was one of the best moves she’s ever made for her career.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Sen. Tina Smith: Proposed impeachment rules 'seem designed to deliver a fast acquittal'

Sen. Tina Smith: Proposed impeachment rules 'seem designed to deliver a fast acquittal'

Proposed Senate impeachment rules are designed to quickly acquit President Trump, rather than deliver a fair trial, Minnesota DFL Senator Tina Smith said Tuesday morning. Smith spoke with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer from Washington ahead of this week’s impeachment proceedings.
by Cathy Wurzer and MPR News Staff

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State regulators’ handling of a PolyMet permit is under scrutiny — here’s why it matters

State regulators’ handling of a PolyMet permit is under scrutiny — here’s why it matters

Minnesota awarded the PolyMet mining company the permits it needs to begin construction on what would become the state’s first copper-nickel mine. Since then, the project has been mired in court battles, over the permits themselves, and how the state issued them. Tuesday begins another chapter.
by Dan Kraker

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Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit

Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit

After sitting unseen and largely forgotten for more than a quarter century, a trove of images taken by a Minnesota photographer in the 1940s and 1950s are on display in a new museum exhibit in Winona.
by Andrew Krueger

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Nur-D to perform at annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration in St. Paul

Twin Cities artist Matt Allen, known on stage as Nur-D, moved to Rosemount from the Bronx as a child. He told The Current he was a nerd as a kid and didn’t think hip-hop was for him. But then he started rapping about two years ago, and he quickly hit it big.
by MPR News Staff

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Could cutting back on salt save downtown Minneapolis trees?

Could cutting back on salt save downtown Minneapolis trees?

Minneapolis has planted hundreds of trees in the past few years in an effort to green up downtown, but many aren't surviving past their first year. City staff have been trying to figure out why, and they think they might have found the culprit: salt.
by Kirsti Marohn

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4 education issues Minnesota lawmakers want to tackle in 2020

4 education issues Minnesota lawmakers want to tackle in 2020

Legislators who work on education issues are gearing up to address some of the most pressing problems they see facing Minnesota schools, including mental health, early childhood education, career and technical education and the opportunity gap.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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