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MPR News Update

MPR News Update for Nov. 4

Good morning! Sunny with highs in the 60s up north to near 70(!) in southern Minnesota. It's the best weekend of the year: You get an extra hour of sleep, all thanks to the end of daylight saving time. At 2 a.m. Sunday, U.S. clocks will move back one hour. | Forecast

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MPR News Update, PM Edition for Nov. 3, 2016

Good afternoon! Want to use Metro Transit in the Twin Cities but don't want to stop and buy tickets at rail platforms, manage a Go-to card or scramble for change at the bus stop? Well now there's a new way to pay for your ride: with your phone. | Forecast

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MPR News Update for Nov. 2

Good morning! Mostly cloudy with isolated showers possible in central Minnesota. Highs range from the upper 40s to mid-50s up north to near 60 in southern Minnesota. Alaska's Bureau of Land Management regularly posts photos and videos of flying squirrels, scampering porcupines, majestic moose or dramatic landscapes. But the video that went up last week was different. It was ominous. It was mysterious. It was ... the Chena River Ice Monster, as captured by a baffled BLM employee. | Forecast

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MPR News Update, PM Edition for Nov. 2, 2016

Good afternoon! An MPR News analysis of data from the St. Anthony Police Department shows that officers have been ticketing black drivers disproportionately in cases where they had wide discretion to pull someone over. But it doesn't tell the whole story. It's nearly impossible to compare the demographics of traffic stops from place to place in Minnesota, and some police departments are trying to change that. | Forecast

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MPR News Update, PM Edition for Nov. 1, 2016

Good afternoon! Imagine you worked in a bookstore. If you could recommend just one book to an eager customer, what would it be? MPR News' Kerri Miller, Stephanie Curtis and Tracy Mumford shared their personal picks, and listeners added their own must-reads. | The Thread | Forecast

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MPR News Update, PM Edition for Oct. 31, 2016

Good afternoon! When most cities want to build something they borrow the money on the bond market and pay it off over time with interest. Not Crystal, Minn. It paid $13 million in cash when it needed a new public works building. The reason: A majority of its seven members are Libertarians or are sympathetic to the party's philosophy of maximum personal freedom and minimum government. | Forecast

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MPR News Update for Oct. 31

Good morning! Cloudy and breezy today, with highs in the lower 50s to mid-60s. No snow in sight -- and you know we're all thinking about snow today. That's because it's the 25th anniversary of the epic Halloween blizzard that brought much of the state to its knees. Even today, it's still used as the benchmark for all blizzards past and present in Minnesota, and practically everyone old enough to remember it can recall with eerie detail where they were and what they were doing as it unfolded. | Forecast

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MPR News Update, PM Edition for Oct. 28, 2016

Good afternoon! Are you scrambling for a Halloween costume? Here are some punny ideas that came straight off the bookshelf. Hold the eye rolls, grab the glue gun. | Forecast

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MPR News Update, PM Edition for Oct. 27, 2016

Good afternoon! "No, NPR, Cleveland fans are not 'flighty, fairweather fans' writes MPR News blogger Bob Collins. "When reporters parachute in to provide sports coverage to an audience which hates sports, you get the kind of story NPR provided today in a blast against the fans of the Cleveland Indians." | Forecast

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MPR News Update for Oct. 27

Good morning! Cloudy with highs in the mid-40s and upper 50s. "The social media generation has given us a new type of criminal," writes NewsCut blogger Bob Collins. It's the type of criminal who breaks into buildings just to take video of breaking into buildings. The Rochester Post Bulletin reports someone broke into its newsroom on Sunday night, apparently only to document the break-in. | Forecast

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