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Lynne Rosetto Kasper of The Splendid Table tells people this year to focus on the basics and lets us in on some of the dirty little secrets behind Thanksgiving.
Minnesota-based Project Haiti makes another visit to improve health care for the residents of the Haitian town of Pignon.
Today on the MPR News Update we report on another bad earnings report from Best Buy, ill winds for Austin-based Hormel, the ethics of using unmanned aerial drones, how the classical music drought in the Twin Cities is impacting teachers and students, and more.
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Shoppers who buy meat produced by Hormel Foods Corp. should expect to see higher prices in the coming year, thanks to the rising cost of livestock feed, via Minnesota Public Radio News.
Several buildings in Hammond are among 52 sites bought out with $621,800 in mostly state and federal money because the buildings were too heavily damaged by the 2010 floods to be saved, via Rochester Post Bulletin.
The Lake Superior group was started in the spring and is slowly making itself known in the region. They held a vigil in Duluth on Tuesday as part of the worldwide Transgender Day of Remembrance, via Duluth News Tribune.
Two sets of auditors and the superintendent of the Carlton school district have raised questions about the way in which a local committee that oversees federal and state grants for American Indian education has administered the money, via Duluth News Tribune.
An outgoing Virginia city councilor will become the city’s mayor beginning Monday. The city is awaiting word on if they are required to have a special election, via WDIO.
Two historic downtown Crookston buildings are getting the wrecking ball this week. Crews have started tearing down the Z-Place and the former Rock’s jewelry building, via WDAZ.
In an already close race between Republican state Rep. Mary Franson and DFLer Bob Cunniff, which is scheduled to head to a recount next week, a judge has ruled that there was an obvious balloting error and nearly three dozen votes must be randomly tossed out, via Politics in Minnesota.
Performance by Minnesota and Twin Cities banks continued to improve in the third quarter but only slightly, according to a quarterly survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, via Finance & Commerce.
The coin toss was, by law, the last procedure a council must do in a case like this one — a close election, a subsequent recount finding an exact tie, and lastly, a tie between city council members in determining who the vote was for in a challenged ballot, via St. Michael, MN Patch.
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