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Next Tuesday, November 3, is the Midterm Election — which probably means a late night for the Prairie Public news team. We’ll be around to bring you results as we receive them, with Todd and Danielle live blogging on our website, and myself on the radio control board.
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Christoffer A Rasmussen
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Public Domain
When you think of the sights and sounds of fall in North Dakota, flocks of snow geese and other waterfowl overhead come to mind, as do the leaves changing color. But one thing that's often overlooked are the large flocks of red-winged blackbirds that swoop and swirl over sunflower fields and other areas.
Main Street
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ND electric co-ops weigh data center growth; Harvest Public Media examines wolves and livestock; and on MN Reads, author Andrew Wittkop revisits two overlooked literary lives.
Dakota Datebook
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For Vincent Baltulis of Fargo, the hiccups started on a December day in 1936, and they wouldn’t go away. Vincent tried every home remedy he knew. First, he tried holding his breath. Then he tried taking “nine swallows of water in rapid succession.” Nothing worked for the 74-year-old, who had worked as a highly skilled tailor for many years.
Each Friday on A Closer Look with the Monitor, Prairie Public's Craig Blumenshine speaks with North Dakota Monitor journalists about their reporting, giving listeners a closer look at major topics in the news, from education and state policy to energy and agriculture topics.
News from NPR
Juanma Jiménez
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Europa Press via AP
A high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train that had stopped, derailing two cars and killing at least 30 people on Wednesday in central Spain, according to local media.
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Transplant teams can talk to families about organ donation before they've decided whether to continue life-sustaining medical care for loved ones. Until now, that has been forbidden. -
In several competitive U.S. Senate contests, candidates have built healthy campaign accounts with out-of-state donations. But the messages to those donors is very different from the one back at home.
Stories from the Upper Midwest Newsroom
Mary Conlon
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Wisconsin Public Radio
Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval
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