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

200 years later, Fort Snelling looks for a makeover
Minnesota Historical Society officials will ask lawmakers to approve more than $30 million in next year's bonding bill for a new visitors center at Fort Snelling as the historic site's bicentennial approaches.
Columbia Heights school board member to quit over Muslim comments
Grant Nichols, a Columbia Heights school board member whose Facebook page contained comments disparaging Muslims, plans to resign. He continues to insist that he did not write the comments.
Trying to understand ISIS recruitment tactics
Three reporters who have been covering the recruitment and radicalization of American youths by ISIS discuss how the process works, and the difficulties of reporting on it.
Rodney King is often remembered for his speech in which he asked, "Can we all get along?" But writer and performer Roger Guenveur Smith says there's so much more to the speech -- and to the man.
A year later, Ebola fears fade but worries remain
The Ebola epidemic has ebbed in Africa, along with worries the disease would mushroom in the United States. But that doesn't mean all is well, says MPR News reporter Lorna Benson.