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Good morning and welcome to a new week. Here’s some news and weather to get it started.

A chilly start to the week. Statewide highs in the 30s with nighttime lows in the mid 20s. In the Twin Cities, it’ll be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow in the evening. More on Updraft. | Forecast

The Gophers football team is continuing its historic season. As the Star Tribune reports, the undefeated team moved to No. 13 on the Associated Press’ rankings. It’s their highest spot in the poll since 2004.

A Minnesota dog lover wants you to know about Leptospirosis. KARE 11 reports on the death of a Richfield woman’s dog who became infected with the bacteria. Leptospirosis is more common in wild animals, but it can affect humans and dogs. However, there is a vaccine for it.

One of southern Minnesota’s busiest highways is getting an upgrade. A 12.5-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 14 between Dodge Center and Owatonna will expand to four lanes. The $108 million project is years in the making and will break ground this week.

Good idea? Cleaner cars.The Minnesota Pollution Control Authority wants to know what you think of Gov. Tim Walz’s Clean Cars proposal this week. The proposal would require manufacturers to bring more low- and zero-emissions vehicles to Minnesota and bolster existing standards. Minnesota would become the first state in the Midwest to adopt such a policy.

Local elections are coming up quick, and we want to help inform you. Early voters are already casting ballots across the state. Have a question about what’s going to be on your ballot on Election Day? Head to this link to send us a question and we’ll do our best to answer as many as we can.

Cody Nelson, MPR News
Early voting continues to increase in popularity in Minnesota
Marianne Combs | MPR News
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon says the concept of “Election Day” has been redefined in recent years. Thanks to an increase in options for early voting, he says, Election Day “isn’t the day we vote — it's the last day that we vote."
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Vapers say they’re unfairly tarred with the THC brush
Mark Zdechlik | MPR News
As reports circulate about deaths and injuries attributed to vaping, users of e-cigarettes are contemplating a hard choice: Will they have to give up nicotine or switch to some other means of ingesting it — like cigarettes?
What's on the radio today

9 a.m. — MPR News with Kerri Miller

Journalist and author Paul Tough spent six years researching whether or not colleges are still an effective launching pad for social mobility. He shares his findings in a new book called “The Years that Matter Most.”

10 a.m. — 1A with Joshua Johnson

General Motors and the United Auto Workers signed a labor contract in 1950 known as the "Treaty of Detroit". It helped America's middle class grow significantly. But what does their latest deal tell us about the future of the American workforce? How to prepare and protect our labor market for new tech, more automation and global trade.

11 a.m. — MPR News with Angela Davis

Winter is on the way and the cold and dark can be hard on our mental and physical health. A therapist, a family doctor and a director from the DNR will join host Angela Davis to work on a strategy to get through it and even enjoy it.

Noon — MPR News Presents

University of Tennessee historian Ernest Freeberg, who spoke at the Minnesota Historical Society's "History Forum" about his book, "The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America." A new movie, "The Current War" opened over the weekend. The movie tells the dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.

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