The apple man steps down + Theater and thorny topics
☀️ Goodbye fake fall! The warm weather has no end in sight, which is about 10 days to two weeks in the weather forecasting world. The six- to 10-day and eight- to 14-day temperature outlooks call for continued high chances of warmer-than-normal temperatures.
For today, expect partly sunny skies with the potential for isolated sprinkles early in the morning and in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Get the latest weather news on Updraft. | |
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| Coming up on Morning Edition | This evening, the two main presidential candidates will appear face to face for the first time. What's at stake for both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump? As poll numbers tighten, NPR's Steve Inskeep, Franco Ordoñez, Scott Horsley and Domenico Montanaro preview the debate and what's on voters' minds.
After 40 years of breeding the Honeycrisp, Zestar and SweeTango apples, and varieties of many other fruits, Jim Luby is retiring. MPR News reporter Peter Cox gets to the core of his career.
Talking about topics like mental health, abortion and climate change can be difficult, even among like-minded friends. As part of our Talking Sense series, MPR News arts reporter Jacob Aloi reports on a theater in Minneapolis that's offering a space to have those discussions in a unique context that includes food and performance. |
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🌾 How do we restore trust in civic institutions and nurture a renewed sense of possibility in a shared future? That was the central question animating the Rural Voice community discussion MPR News host Kerri Miller led at the Sheldon Theatre in Red Wing.
📻 Listen back to a recording of her conversation. Residents shared stories from their own community of how real problems have been solved, despite political differences. |
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| | The man who put the ‘snap’ in Honeycrisp is stepping aside |
Jim Luby became interested in this field at a young age. His mother was a guide at the Arboretum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studied biology in high school and in summers worked on his uncle’s dairy farm. And his first job out of school was working breeding oats.
“I decided this is kind of cool — you get to work outside during the nice part of the year,” he said. “It’s an outdoor job. It takes advantage of my interests in biology, genetics. Get to do something in agriculture, get to do something that’s hopefully good for people.” | |
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| | Months after Twin Cities highway closed, repairs to reopen it are set to begin |
It’s been more than three months since a state highway in the Twin Cities unexpectedly closed after saturated soil on a hillside gave way, undermining the pavement. But the end of the closure may be in sight.
But the end of the closure may be in sight. The Minnesota Department of Transportation says work is set to begin this week to repair that stretch of Highway 13 in Mendota Heights.
“Our target is to have the roadway open by Nov. 1,” said MnDOT maintenance operations engineer Chris Hoberg.
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| | ‘This is rehearsal for life’: Mixed Blood Theater takes on thorny topics |
Throughout this year and next, Minneapolis theater company Mixed Blood is commissioning four plays dealing with thorny topics: mental health, abortion, climate resilience and racial justice.
The first of these events was held a few weeks ago, in the community room of a condo complex in Minneapolis. The play, “PARTS” by James Anthony Tyler, follows a conservative man dealing with loneliness and a strained relationship with his family. | |
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| What else we're watching: |
🐶 Pet-friendly domestic violence shelter opening in Anoka County. Nearly half of victims choose to stay in abusive situations rather than leave their pets behind, according to RedRover, and 71 percent of women in domestic violence shelters report their abuser threatened, injured or killed a pet.
🏔️ Listen: Fully-accessible resort, first of its kind, opens in Ely. A one-of-a-kind resort is now open in Ely. North of North Resort and Outfitters was built from the ground up to be accessible for everyone, and that means everyone.
⚾ Angels beat the struggling Twins 6-2. Reid Detmers worked six solid innings and Brandon Drury and Niko Kavadas homered to lead the Los Angeles Angels to a 6-2 victory over the struggling Minnesota Twins on Monday night.
🍇 Can the most popular red wine in the U.S. endure climate change? Bold cabernet sauvignon wines made Napa Valley famous. Now, hotter temperatures are starting to damage the grapes, so some wineries are starting to experiment.
📊 NPR poll shows why the stakes are so high for Harris and Trump in the debate. Seven-in-10 Americans say they are going to watch the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, and 3-in-10 say it will help decide their vote, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll
👑 Princess Kate completes chemotherapy treatment for cancer. The Princess of Wales announced earlier this year she had been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer.
— Sam Stroozas and Matt Mikus, MPR News |
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