Irreplaceable Dakota language archives are safe after a fire, St. Paul public schools announce possible staff cuts, and a shipwreck emerges in Lake Superior.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston

Image: A map of Lake Superior, circa 1680 [Image credit: n/a (public domain)]
Audio credit: contains a snippet of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
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Two Chippewa nations’ Minneapolis offices burn, feds raid Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home, and 50 years of central Minnesota symphonies.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston

Image: Today is White Cane Awareness Day at the state Capitol. [image credit: State Services for the Blind]
Audio credit: Fawn Youngbear-Tibbetts; Heartland Symphony’s Fall 2026 concert (https://www.heartlandsymphony.com/videos)

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Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Faith leaders speak out against Trump’s anti-Somali American statements, and scarecrows infest Waconia.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston

Image: Waconia has scarecrows, but Oz it’s not. [image credit: A W. W. Denslow illustration from L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz,” 1900. Public Domain Image Archive / Library of Congress]
Audio credit: Public News Service; contains a clip of Warner Bros. “The Wizard of Oz”

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