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🥶 Wednesday will be a crisp day with gusty winds, scattered snow showers and cold temperatures mostly in the 30s and upper 20s.
🌬️ The Twin Cities will see occasional snow showers and may pick up coating on grassy areas Wednesday. It will feel like winter with gusty winds and temperatures in the 20s and 30s across Minnesota.
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Thrills on the wing: Sandhill cranes fill the skies at a Minnesota wildlife refuge

For the past few weeks, there has been a distinctive rattling rising from the wetland around the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge, about an hour’s drive north of the Twin Cities metro. It’s the sound of thousands of sandhill cranes gathering to rest and feed before migrating south for the winter.

Turning pages through time: St. Paul’s Red Balloon Bookshop celebrates its 40th year

The Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul celebrates 40 years as a beloved community hub for children’s books, storytimes and local literary events, weathering challenges like eBooks, Amazon and the pandemic.

NEWS ROUNDUP

🌿 Cannabis regulator faces heat after rejecting over a thousand initial applicants. Minnesota cannabis regulators say they’ll hold a lottery in the coming weeks to determine who will operate the state’s first legal marijuana businesses. But the Office of Cannabis Management is facing pushback this week after it rejected around two-thirds of the applicants it deemed ineligible.
🧑🏻‍⚖️ Border agents lay out a day of horror leading to the discovery of a frozen family. Tuesday in the Federal Courthouse in Fergus Falls, prosecutors began laying out their case against two men accused of human smuggling which resulted in the death of an entire family.
🔵 Minnesota DFL Chair Ken Martin announces bid to lead national Democratic Party. In a video posted to social media, Martin said he wants to help the Democratic Party reconnect with voters after losing ground in this year’s election.
🦅 EagleCam expansion: Minnesota DNR says new camera, new nesting pair will go live this week. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday announced its popular and beloved EagleCam feed will resume on Thursday at a new location, after the nest previously featured on camera fell in 2023.
🌎 First phase of massive Sherco Solar project now generating electricity. Tuesday’s event marked a milestone in Xcel’s transition away from burning fossil fuels to carbon-free sources of energy — like the sun and wind — that don’t contribute to climate change.
🏛️ Minnesota House leaders agree to even split on committee control. It will be the second time in state history that the parties have been evenly split in the chamber. The last time the parties split the chamber was in 1979.
🎭 The glamour unravels: ‘Cabaret’s’ haunting echoes of denial and hope. The University of Minnesota’s production of “Cabaret” blends dazzling performances with a chilling exploration of denial, humanity and political upheaval, reflecting the timeless relevance of its themes.

MUST LISTEN

🎧 How philanthropy can support housing stability and racial justice. MPR News host Angela Davis talked with the president of the Pohlad Family Foundation, Susan Bass Roberts, about how and where the Pohlads give away their money and about her own career in corporate and community philanthropy.
🎧 Minnesota’s Pretendians Band nominated for Native American Music Award. Pretendians Band lead singer Thomas Draskovic, who is an enrolled member of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, joined MPR News host Nina Moini to discuss his music, his band’s divisive name and to listen to a few songs.
🎧 Listen to today's headlines on our Minnesota Today podcast.

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