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1 week ago | 
mprnews.org | Emily F. Reese |Ngoc Bui
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Move over, Lucky Charms — new “healthier” cereals are seeing sales surge while big-name cereals from companies like General Mills are seeing profit margins shrink as consumers move away from sugary, highly-processed foods. Brooks Johnson reported on the trends for the Minnesota Star Tribune. He shared more about them on this week’s Appetites.
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2 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Emily Bright |Ngoc Bui
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he plans to move forward with reforms to the city’s police department as laid out in a federal consent decree agreement — despite the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the case. That agreement stemmed from the police murder of George Floyd five years ago and laid out sweeping reforms.
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2 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Emily Bright |Ngoc Bui
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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Emily F. Reese |Ngoc Bui
One of Minnesota’s oldest prisons, the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater, is set to close. That news came as part of a state budget deal reached Thursday. Lawmakers say the prison has become unsafe and would be too costly to maintain. The phased closure will take place over four years and the more than 1,200 people incarcerated at Stillwater will be moved to other facilities across the state.
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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Emily F. Reese |Ngoc Bui
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Tom Crann |Ngoc Bui
Catholic cardinals have begun their conclave to elect a new pope. The first vote ended in black smoke billowing out of the Sistine Chapel chimney into the early evening sky in Rome — signaling no new Pope has been elected. The next Pope will shape decades of church doctrine. The Catholic Church looks different after Pope Francis’s tenure. Minnesota’s Catholic congregation looks different, too.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Catharine Richert |Ngoc Bui
Eden Prairie High School’s Linda Wallenberg has been named Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year. She is the first from her district to earn the honor, which was awarded Sunday at the annual banquet hosted by teachers’ union Education Minnesota. At a time when teacher retention continues to be a challenge for many school districts, Wallenberg has accomplished a rare feat of staying in the classroom for nearly five decades. “It’s a calling of the heart, calling of love,” Wallenberg said.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Tom Crann |Ngoc Bui
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. President Donald Trump has been talking about plans to end federal funding for public media. And now he has signed an executive order calling for a halt in funding for NPR and PBS through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and eliminated CPB funding budget plans released today.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Tom Crann |Ngoc Bui
On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured what was then called the city of Saigon. It marked the beginning of Communist rule in Vietnam and the end of a long war that left almost 3 million people dead. Chaos followed as Americans and South Vietnamese tried to escape however they could. These are the stories of three Vietnamese Minnesotans who lived through that historical moment. MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Tom Crann |Lukas Levin |Ngoc Bui
It’s been widely reported that Americans are suffering from a nationwide loneliness epidemic, but it turns out Minnesota may be an outlier. A report by the Washington Post reveals that Minnesota is one of the few places in America where people feel "rarely" lonely. Andrew Van Dam, data columnist for the Washington Post, pored over responses from more than half a million Americans from the Census Household Pulse survey. He shared his surprising results on All Things Considered.
