The Minnesota State Fair was scheduled to kick off on Thursday August 27, 2020, but there is no fair this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
MPR News host Angela Davis paid tribute to all the things we love about the State Fair: the food, the rides, the live music and entertainment, farm animals, looking at the winning cakes and crop art ... and yes, even the crowds.
- MPR News: 'If it's sacrifice to keep people safe, I'm OK': Vendors react to State Fair cancellation
- Public Media Market: 2020 Virtual State Fair T-Shirt
- Visit us… online: mpr.org/statefair
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A new study released this week reports that significant efforts to reduce sediment will be needed for the Mississippi’s upper reaches to meet state water quality standards.
- Troubled waters St. Croix River, 580 other waterways added to state's list
- Cleaning up polluted water is tough, but possible Here's how it can be done
- MPR News report Trouble in the Water
Spotlight on the Future of Policing is part of a series of convenings we are committed to leading over the next year to bring awareness, dialogue and potential solutions to Minnesota’s persistent racial disparities — in education, health, economic opportunities and many other areas.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26
12 noon p.m. CT
Free registration
Join us at noon Thursday, Aug. 27, for a virtual Bring the Sing, sponsored by Classical MPR and the Rochester Downtown Alliance. Lift your voice with your neighbors in a mass rendition of several well-known and spirit-lifting songs.
To celebrate National Radio Day (Aug. 20), Classical MPR offers a special presentation of our live March 13 broadcast of the Minnesota Orchestra, with remastered audio and new commentary from host Melissa Ousley, as a gift to listeners. On that historic night, the orchestra performed to an audience-less hall amid concerns surrounding the coronavirus.
The U.S. Postal Service is warning states it cannot guarantee that all ballots cast by mail for the Nov. 3 election will arrive in time to be counted, even if ballots are mailed by state deadlines. Here are some questions and answers about what's going on with the post office and the upcoming election.
- As USPS pressure grows Postmaster general to appear for House hearing next week
- From APM Reports Postal delays, errors in swing states loom over election
- Previously from APM Reports More mailed votes, more rejected votes in Wisconsin
More than 8 in 10 Minneapolis voters say the killing of George Floyd by police was not an isolated incident, but rather a sign of larger problems in how the city’s Police Department treats Black people, according to a new MPR News/Star Tribune/KARE 11 poll.
- Poll results Only a quarter of Mpls. residents favor city’s Police Department
- More Reallocate money from MPD, but keep the department
