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MPR News with Tom Weber

Tom Weber, a reporter and host at MPR News for a decade, resigned effective June 22, 2018. You can find his work covering the people and places of Minnesota here.
https://www.mpr.org/about/people/tweber

Minneapolis 'does not have any more affordable housing than it did 25 years ago'

Minneapolis 'does not have any more affordable housing than it did 25 years ago'

"We just have a bigger and bigger gap between working people and their ability to pay either rent or a mortgage," said Mary Tingerthal, commissioner of the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency.
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Meet Democratic delegate Liz De La Torre

Meet Liz De La Torre, a national delegate for Hillary Clinton, she will be attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

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Meet Republican delegate Susan McDonald

Meet Susan McDonald, a national delegate for Marco Rubio, she will be attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

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Meet Democratic delegate Michael Gibino

Meet Michael Gibino, a national delegate for Bernie Sanders, who is currently running 1200 miles to attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

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Summer music series on MPR News with Tom Weber

Summer music series on MPR News with Tom Weber

Host Tom Weber stopped by the studios of the Current to visit with hosts Jill Riley and Brian Oake on their morning show to preview the Summer Music Series.

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Summer Music Series: Gaelynn Lea

Summer Music Series: Gaelynn Lea

We kick off our Summer Music Series with Gaelynn Lea, the fiddler from Duluth who won NPR's Tiny Desk Concert contest earlier this year. She joined Tom Weber in the MPR studios.
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Cancer Moonshot Summits being held across country, including at U of Minnesota

Vice President Joe Biden is holding a "Cancer Moonshot Summit" in Washington on Wednesday. Tom Weber talked with Dr. Douglas Yee, director of the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota.
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After SCSU's president death, new interim leader discusses his goals

Ashish Vaidya has taken over as interim president of St. Cloud State University. He was named to the position last week, shortly after president Earl Potter III was killed in a car crash in the Twin Cities. Tom Weber talked with Vaidya about the future of SCSU.
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