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Good morning and welcome to Tuesday (or your Monday if you had Presidents Day off. But the good news is it's Tuesday). 


It's a slick morning so be careful out there! We're in store for a brief cold snap -- think highs in the teens and subzero lows -- until about Thursday before above average temps return Friday. More on Updraft. | Forecast


We just can't keep up with kids these days -- but when have we ever? The latest sign that we're one step behind comes via the form of adults trying to stem the tide of teen vaping. By the time Juul pulled most of its flavored pods from the market in October of 2019, many teens had already moved on to an array of newer, disposable vape products.


Do you track your sleep with technology? You might want to rethink that. Sleep trackers have become increasingly popular, measuring how you breathe, how fast your heart is beating, how much you're tossing and turning. They crunch that data to produce a sleep score, usually through a smartphone app. But in an irony of our digital lifestyles, for some people, perfecting that sleep score becomes an end unto itself -- so much so that they can lose sleep over it. And there's a name for this new kind of insomnia of the digital age: orthosomnia.


There's just something about empty ice rinks that has a certain ... je ne sais quoi. Photographer Matthew Jasper's new book, "Home Ice," features 72 of the hundreds of ice rinks throughout Minnesota -- all sans skaters or crowds. "I wanted to show off the character of these places without people being distracted by people in the stands or what's going on in the game,” he said. Check out some of those photos here.


Going once, going twice -- it's your last chance to vote in round one! Pick your two favorite Minnesota places, works of art, ideas or inventions in our Minnesota Made Matchup. Our head-to-head matchups of the top picks start Wednesday, just in time for the member drive. 


— Nancy Yang, MPR News

After hellish ice fishing season, Minnesota resorts say they need help
Heavy snow and thin ice nearly shut down this year’s ice fishing season across much of northern Minnesota. Now, resort owners are hoping for state loans to recover from what they’re calling a natural disaster. Lake Winnibigoshish seemed to get the worst of it. | On pace for mildest winter in 8 years? | Minnesota's famed winter isn't what it used to be
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Bipartisan agreement at Capitol: Enough with the robocalls
Bills to target those unwanted phone calls have been filed in the House and Senate by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, tackling a growing nuisance that in some cases leads to consumer fraud.
Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy
The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy, a sign of the century-old organization's financial instability as it faces some 300 lawsuits from men who say they were sexually abused as scouts.
Bloomberg makes debate stage, facing Dem rivals for 1st time
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has qualified for the upcoming Democratic presidential debate, marking the first time he'll stand alongside the rivals he has so far avoided by bypassing the early voting states and using his personal fortune to define himself through television ads.
14 Americans taken off cruise ship and flown to U.S. test positive for coronavirus
The State Department said it was in the process of transporting more than 300 Americans who had been quarantined on the Diamond Princess off Yokohama, Japan, when it got word of the positive tests for the disease now known as COVID-19.
What's on the radio today?
9 a.m. — MPR News with Kerri Miller
For 50 years, author P. Carl lived as a girl and queer woman before transitioning to become a man. He joins us to discuss his experiences and what he’s learned about gender and equality in the United States along the way.

Then, what changes are women making to today’s workforce? Guest Chris Crisman, photographer and author of “Women’s Work: Stories from Pioneering Women Shaping Our Workforce,” portrays how roles have and continue to shift and what future generations can learn.

10 a.m. — 1A

The attorney general is facing a crisis of confidence inside the Justice Department. Amid rumors of a walkout, more than a thousand former DOJ officials have called for his resignation. The battle to uphold the rule of law and William Barr's fight with the deep state, next time on 1A

11 a.m. — MPR News with Angela Davis

An estimated 2.6 million grandparents in the United States have primary responsibility for rearing their grandchildren. That number has been on the rise, in part because of parents caught up in the opioid epidemic. Grandparents who have a more traditional relationship with their grandchildren need to adapt to new parenting techniques, attitudes and technology.

Guests:

  • Megan Dolbin-MacNab, an associate professor of human development and family Science at Virginia Tech. She has studied grandfamilies for 20 years.

  • Janet Salo, family support specialist at Kinship Family Support Services, which is part of Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota.

  • Karen Ritz, founder of GrandyCamp, a guide to activities for wrinkle-free grandparenting in the Twin Cities.

12 p.m. — MPR News Presents

The former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, has now retired from the State Department. She made her first public appearance since President Trump’s impeachment last week at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Her remarks again made a splash — you can hear her whole speech and the audience questions during MPR News Presents.

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