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Raffle caller Heidi Heller spins the prize wheel during a meat raffle at the Hi-Stakes Cafe and Bar in Spring Lake Park, Minn., on Friday, March 27, 2026.
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When it comes to meat raffles, Minnesota lawmakers have no beefs
Melissa Olson , Minnesota Public Radio
Despite these hyper-partisan times, Minnesota lawmakers MEAT in the middle as they ready a "big, beautiful, meat raffle bill" that would boost prize amounts to keep up with rising costs.
Winner of 2025 North Dakota Governor's Photo Contest for Travel and Tourism
Marshall Lipp
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"Be Legendary," submit a photo to the Governor's Photo Contest
Danielle Webster
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Fire Weather Watch issued for Friday
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Episode 68 features acoustic trio Magic Tuber Stringband, folk singer Jonas Brehm, singer-songwriter Lilla Shy, poet Sean Sexton, and Minnesota folk singer Molly Brandt. Plus, singer-songwriter Andru Bemis plays a traditional folk standard.
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Episode 67 | Andy Hedges, Tanasi, Crys Matthews, Tamara Barschak, and GAFS 6th Anniversary!
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    Carole Butcher
    In December 1856, Henry Rice presented an enabling act to Congress that would allow Minnesota to begin the process of becoming a state. He based his proposal on Minnesota’s rapid population growth. The bill easily passed the House of Representatives, but the Senate was another story.
New Podcast In Partnership with North Dakota Monitor
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J. Schuberth, who is running for Oregon governor as Pencil, speaks with voters and curious passersby as they walk around downtown Portland, Ore., to campaign on April 23. Schuberth is an advocate for reforming the state's K-12 school system.
Eli Imadali
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Oregon's most unexpected gubernatorial candidate? A pencil with a point
Dirk VanderHart
Oregon's public schools rank last in fourth-grade reading, according to an analysis of national testing. As a wake-up call for elected leaders, Pencil is running for governor as a write-in candidate.
Cori Roberts of St. Cloud, Minnesota, incurred more than $8,000 in medical bills after she was diagnosed at CentraCare with early-stage cervical cancer. She says the health system told her she made too much — about $41,000 a year — to qualify for financial aid.
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The Minnesota Star Tribune
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As ranks of uninsured grow, charity care can be hard to come by at many hospitals
Noam Levey, Jeremy Olson
Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi in a hospital in Tehran, Iran on May 10, 2026.
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Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi transferred to a Tehran hospital, her foundation says
The Associated Press