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3 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Feven Gerezgiher |Todd Melby
PBS stations across the country are on the brink of losing a big chunk of their funding, but a small station in northern Minnesota is fighting back. Lakeland PBS in Bemidji has joined the national PBS organization in challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for an end to government support for both PBS and NPR. The lawsuit was filed on Friday.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Todd Melby
Give Hope, a St. Paul-based nonprofit co-founded by chef Brian Ingram in 2020, has agreed to dissolve. Ingram is CEO and chef at Purpose Driven Restaurants, which includes Hope Breakfast Bar, The Gnome Craft Pub and Salt & Flour.
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2 months ago | 
mprnews.org | Todd Melby
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. Paige Bueckers of UConn is the likely first choice in Monday’s WNBA draft. Bueckers played high school basketball at Hopkins, but it’s unlikely she’ll play for the Minnesota Lynx, who own the 11th pick in the draft. Bueckers is coming off a NCAA title win earlier this month.
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2 months ago | 
mesabitribune.com | Todd Melby
Wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg, whose landscapes brought worldwide attention to Minnesota, died Friday at his home in Medina. He was 79. The news was announced on Bradenburg’s Facebook page. In the months leading up to his death, he had been treated for thyroid cancer and also had pneumonia. kAm“y:> H2D @?6 @7 E96 76H A6@A=6 x’G6 >6E :? >J =:76 H9@ 4@>6D FA H:E9 2?
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2 months ago | 
mprnews.org | Todd Melby
Wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg, whose landscapes brought worldwide attention to Minnesota, died Friday at his home in Medina. The news was announced on Bradenburg’s Facebook page. In the months leading up to his death, he had been treated for thyroid cancer and also had pneumonia. “Jim was one of the few people I’ve met in my life who comes up with an idea and he fulfills it,” said Layne Kennedy, a Minneapolis photographer and friend.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Todd Melby
Charles Barkley had a confession to make on national television. “I have not been to Minnesota in probably 20 years,” he told Anthony Edwards after the Minnesota Timberwolves clinched a spot in the NBA’s Western Conference Finals earlier this year. Edward’s off-the-cuff reply was curt, quotable and an instant hit with pretty much everyone. “Bring ya ass.”MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
knoxradio.com | Todd Melby
As a turkey farmer in Northfield who raises about 150,000 birds every year, John Zimmerman usually doesn’t give much thought to any particular turkey, even a Thanksgiving turkey. But this year is different. That’s because Zimmerman had to choose which turkey travels to the White House to meet President Joe Biden to receive an expected presidential pardon on Monday. Zimmerman is serving as chair of the National Turkey Federation this year and that group’s head picks the honorary bird.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Todd Melby
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. As a turkey farmer in Northfield who raises about 150,000 birds every year, John Zimmerman usually doesn’t give much thought to any particular turkey, even a Thanksgiving turkey. But this year is different. That’s because Zimmerman had to choose which turkey travels to the White House to meet President Joe Biden to receive an expected presidential pardon on Monday.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
brainerddispatch.com | Todd Melby |Anika Besst
MINNEAPOLIS — Jake Runestad doesn’t shy away from challenging topics. In “Dreams of the Fallen,” the Minneapolis-based composer worked with a poet and war veteran to create a piece of music about post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s one of two songs he composed on the Grammy-nominated album “A Dream So Bright: Choral Music of Jake Runestad.” Runestad learned of the Grammy nomination on Friday, Nov. 8. “I’m really, really excited,” he said.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Todd Melby |Anika Besst
MINNEAPOLIS — Jake Runestad doesn’t shy away from challenging topics. In “Dreams of the Fallen,” the Minneapolis-based composer worked with a poet and war veteran to create a piece of music about post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s one of two songs he composed on the Grammy-nominated album “A Dream So Bright: Choral Music of Jake Runestad.” Runestad learned of the Grammy nomination on Friday, Nov. 8. “I’m really, really excited,” he said.
