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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

New memorial to honor Hmong and Lao veterans

This weekend a new memorial will be unveiled on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol. The Minnesota Memorial to Special Forces in Laos honors the tens of thousands of Hmong and other southeast Asian people who fought for the United States in Laos. MPR's Marianne Combs talked with Minnesota Senator Foung Hawj and Ly Vang, who served as a young nurse during the war.

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Refinancing student debt

Minnesota ranks fifth in the nation for student debt, and fourth for its proportion of students shouldering college debt loads.

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How artist lofts became white segregated subsidised housing

A University of Minnesota research paper, "White Segregated Subsidized Housing ," has sparked a debate about why artists' lofts are predominately occupied by white artists. Marianne Combs will explore why 82 percent of people living in the artist housing in Minnesota were white.

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Prairie Island Indian Community seeking federal trust for new land

The Prairie Island Indian Community, one of Minnesota's federally recognized Native American tribes, has bought a big parcel of land in the East Metro. Now the tribe has applied to put that land, 112 acres in Washington County, into federal trust.
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Mayo Clinic touts planned bio-research campus

Mayo Clinic is starting the process of finding a developer for Discovery Square. It will be a big bio-research campus, part of the Destination Medical Center. Tom Weber talked with Mayo's President and CEO, Dr. John Noseworthy.
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Exploring 'The Story of Autism'

A new book, "In a Different Key: The Story of Autism," by John Donvan and Caren Zucker, tracks the history of the diagnosis from 75 years ago to today.
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Counter Stories: Reflecting on the Jamar Clark decision

The Counter Stories hosts discuss this week's news that federal prosecutors will not pursue federal civil rights charges against two Minneapolis police officers in the police shooting of Jamar Clark last November.
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Why is the Twin Cities advertising industry so white?

The local nonprofit Brand Lab surveyed the Twin Cities advertising industry and found that people of color make up only six percent of the workforce, and those that do break in often leave the business after a couple of years.

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