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• Meow-wow: Cat Video Festival packs the State Fair Grandstand
  Last year, an estimated 10,000 people gathered in Minneapolis for the Walker Art Center's first Internet Cat Video Festival. This year, organizers moved it to the Minnesota State Fair and last night the audience followed.August 29, 2013
• Internet Cat Video Festival photos: The Grandstand was packed
  The Walker Art Center's hugely successful 2012 Internet Cat Video Festival moved to the Minnesota State Fair this year, and the event filled the Grandstand. Here's a look at some of the people -- and cats -- on hand.August 29, 2013
• Minnesotans mark 50th anniversary of March on Washington
  As tens of thousands gathered in the nation's capital to mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's call for economic justice and racial equality, Minnesotans marched to the state Capitol in St. Paul.August 28, 2013
• Live video: 50th anniversary of the March on Washington
  Live video from the National Mall on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.August 28, 2013
• Fair today: Meet the governor, watch cat videos
  Gov. Mark Dayton will spend an hour at the MPR booth (at the corner of Judson and Nelson), chatting with MPR News political editor Mike Mulcahy live on the air. When you're done with that, stroll over to the Cat Video.August 28, 2013
• Obama holds Martin Luther King as personal hero
  Barack Obama was 2 years old and growing up in Hawaii when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Fifty years later, the nation's first black president will stand as the most high-profile example of the racial progress King espoused.August 28, 2013
• Today's Question: Are Americans too negative?
  "A wave of negativism rolls across the land. Many Americans are against instead of for. They would rather stop than start, subtract than add, demolish than build," writes NPR's Linton Weeks. True?August 27, 2013
• What is going no? Negativity in America
  A wave of negativism rolls across the land. Many Americans are against instead of for. They would rather stop than start, subtract than add, demolish than build.August 27, 2013
• Is Coke's 127-year-old recipe the same? Not quite
  Coca-Cola keeps the recipe for its 127-year-old soda inside an imposing steel vault that's bathed in red security lights. Several cameras monitor the area to make sure the fizzy formula stays a secret.August 27, 2013
• Daily Circuit: 31 books for your fall reading list
  On Tuesday, we asked our guests and listeners to tell us about a great book they read this summer that we should have on our fall reading list.August 26, 2013
• #fairhacks video: How to get away from it all at the Minnesota State Fair
  How do you find some respite from the endless crowds, noise and general craziness of the Minnesota State Fair? Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Post shows how to get away from it all in this video.August 26, 2013
• State Fair U: How 'bout them apples?
  The MPR Morning Edition crew is setting out to learn something new about the world every day using the State Fair as a classroom. Inside the Horticulture Building, Peter Moe gave producer Jim Bickal a lesson in Minnesota-style apple-making.August 26, 2013
• Tell us: Is playing football good for kids?
  Parents who are looking for authoritative answers to their questions about the safety of youth football, hockey and other sports may just have to wait, reports the Daily Circuit blog.August 26, 2013
• It's a dangerously, historically hot day at the State Fair
  This year's State Fair will go down as one of the hottest in Minnesota weather history. If you're planning on heading to the fair despite the heat, there are a couple of places around the grounds to keep in mind if you need to cool off.The Daily Circuit, August 26, 2013
• 'My town is ...' video gets legs; what's your town?
  Last winter, MPR News sent the photographer team of Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber crisscrossing the state to help us tell the story of "Fighting for an American Countryside," a downloadable eBook project on rural Minnesotans striving to create lives and communities of value amid a sizable set of challenges. In the course of shooting hundreds of photos and hours of video, Jenn and Tim hit on the idea of simply asking people in front of a camera to finish this sentence: "My town is ..." Their poignant four-minute video is part of the eBook.August 23, 2013

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