| Dec. 27, 2019 A wintry mix of heavy snow AND freezing rain AND ice. Yes, we didn’t — and can’t — forget it’s December in Minnesota. After all those warmups and thaws, a winter storm is hitting us this weekend with heavy snow and freezing rain across the state. The winter storm watch begins at midnight Friday in southwestern Minnesota and Saturday morning in northern Minnesota, and will be in effect until early Monday morning. Get the latest weather info on our Updraft blog. When does the new decade start? Are you on Team Zero or Team 1? The new year is just around the corner and here comes the question of the year: Does the next decade start on Jan. 1, 2020, or Jan. 1, 2021? Here are experts from both Team Zero and Team 1 — with quite reasonable explanations to both answers. Along Lake Victoria in Kenya, sex for fish has become a common practice. Women fishmongers in Kenya’s fishing communities often engage in transactional sex with fishermen — a practice that contributes to Kenya's high rate of HIV, NPR reports. A group — No Sex For Fish cooperative — is challenging that convention. Remember where Prince said, “That ain’t Lake Minnetonka,” in Purple Rain? He said that line to Apollonia after she “purified” herself in the movie. That was actually a section of the Minnesota River in the small town of Henderson, not Lake Minnetonka. That town, Henderson, will unveil a statue of Prince holding his Cloud guitar as part of its Prince celebration next summer, Jay Gabler writes on the Local Current Blog. — Jiwon Choi, MPR News | 