Free meals + lakeshore series + State Fair scenes
| 🌥️ Enjoy a nice, dry and quiet day Wednesday. More rain and thunder is on the way Thursday ahead of another cool front. Friday into the weekend looks sunny and dry. Get the latest weather news on Updraft. | |
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🎡 Minnesota Public Radio at the Minnesota State Fair. Find our booth near the corner of Judson and Nelson at the fair through Labor Day.
Camp MPR State Fair performance schedule for Wednesday:
7–10 a.m. – The Current Morning Show with Jill Riley Noon–1 p.m. – MPR News MN Now: The Weather Quiz with Dr. Mark Seeley 2–3 p.m. – YourClassical MPR presents Steam Machine 3:30–4:30 p.m. – MPR News Weather Team 5:30–6:05 p.m. – The Current presents She’s Green with intro from Diane With a one-time $10 (or more) donation or member gift, you can snag our limited edition tote bag! Go to mprnews.org for the latest State Fair news and join us in Dan Patch Park on Aug. 30 for MPR Day. See our full Camp MPR schedule here. | |
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| Coming up on Morning Edition |
👩⚖️ Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a revised indictment in the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump. This comes after the Supreme Court granted the former president — and all U.S. presidents — substantial immunity from prosecution. NPR's Carrie Johnson explains how the case differs, and we hear GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance's reaction.
🌊 We continue our series Trouble by the water, exploring how suburban-style development around Minnesota's lakes is destroying natural shorelines. Reporter Kirsti Marohn introduces us to a Stearns County couple who've spent years taking lakeshore protection to the next level — and watching their patience pay off.
🌽 Crop art has gotten so popular at the Minnesota State Fair, they've hired someone to oversee the submissions and exhibit. Reporter Estelle Timar-Wilcox talks with the new superintendent of seeds in our Job Interview series. |
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| | This St. Paul food truck spent the summer giving children and teens more free meals than ever before |
St. Paul Public Schools’ bright green food truck served triple the number of meals than it did in 2022. The program was broadened and designed to reach youth who live in and around neighborhoods where at least 50 percent of households qualify for free and reduced meals, but there’s no income requirement to receive the food.
Aquiyla Giles has five children, and this is their third year getting lunch from the food truck. “My kids like it,” Giles said. “They ask to come every day.” | |
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| | Native plants, lots of patience: How a Stearns County couple restored a damaged lakeshore |
Richard and Mary Gallea spent 20 years transforming their property on the Sauk River Chain of Lakes to a colorful native landscape. It’s helped to keep their lake clean.
“A lot of people, frankly, their ideal vision of shoreline property is Pebble Beach,” Richard Gallea said, referring to the famed California golf course on the Pacific Ocean. “It’s a mowed golf course-quality lawn, a fire pit right down on shore, which always makes me cringe.” | |
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| What else we're watching: |
🏀 Meet 11 Minnesota athletes competing at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. Athletes with Minnesota ties will compete in the Paris Paralympic games Aug. 28 through Sept. 8, matching up with the best in the world in sports like sitting volleyball, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair basketball, para swimming, para track and field and more.
🙃 Weird. Why the popular campaign insult stings more in Minnesota. In this year’s presidential campaign, “weird” is inescapable. It’s been used in speeches, printed onto T-shirts and shared in memes across the internet. Both Republicans and Democrats have claimed the word. And in Minnesota, the term can be loaded.
🎤 Harris will sit down with CNN for her first interview since launching presidential bid. Vice President Kamala Harris is sitting down with CNN this week for her first interview since President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid.
👮♂️ Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery. A cemetery official allegedly tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. When cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering the section, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.
🏈 NFL owners will allow private equity investors in their teams. The booming business of the NFL will now be open for more business. League owners voted their carefully crafted approval of private equity in club ownership, putting in place a provisional new rule that lets certain firms buy up a stake of up to 10 percent in any of the 32 franchises.
⚾ Braves score 4 times in 10th to beat Twins 8-6. The Twins have lost seven of nine and trail Cleveland and Kansas City by 2 1/2 games in the AL Central. They control the final wild-card spot in the AL by four games over Boston.
— Sam Stroozas and Anna Haecherl, MPR News |
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