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• Tapping a Maple Tree at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
  4th grade students visit the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and learn how to make maple syrup.March 26, 2010
• Suburban dad leaves Burnsville to govern in Somalia
  Somali-Americans in Minnesota have long been told they have a duty to help their homeland. But few took that calling to heart like Mohamed Aden.March 26, 2010
• Counting the homeless a challenge for census workers
  The U.S. Census has launched a major public relations campaign to make sure everyone fills out the forms that arrived earlier this month, but it will take more than a good PR campaign to count people who don't have a permanent place to live.March 26, 2010
• Libraries offer an online lifeline for today's disposessed
  Some are surfing the web. Others are trying to rebuild their lives.March 26, 2010
• Edgerton remembers its improbable 1960 basketball title
  Fifty years ago today, the 1960 Edgerton boys high school basketball team became the smallest school ever to win Minnesota's state tournament.March 26, 2010
• School lunches get a makeover
  School lunch programs are just one front in the battle against obesity. In an effort to address the quality and nutritional value of those programs, many Minnesota school districts are shifting to fewer processed foods and more fresh food from local farmers.Midmorning, March 26, 2010
• Greening urban architecture
  A radical architect has ideas on promoting environmentalism in cities with stackable cars and homes built into trees. He also says "sustainable" is not a good enough word to describe his goals for buildings.Midmorning, March 25, 2010
• MinnEcon: Your recession in six words
  Readers of MPR's economy blog, MinnEcon, responded to our request to sum up the recession in six words with pain, wry humor and the resilience of surviving the recession.March 25, 2010
• Some U of M students spent break helping others
  A group of University of Minnesota students defied the spring break stereotypes and used their free time to help others.March 25, 2010
• New memoir explores science of the brain
  Author Siri Hustvedt investigates the causes of her migraine headaches and episodes of uncontrollable shaking that began shortly after the death of her father.Midmorning, March 25, 2010
• Radio personality 'Dark Star' leaves WCCO-AM after 25 years
  Radio personality Dark Star is leaving WCCO-AM after 25 years with the station, most recently as the late-night host of "Sports Night with Dark Star."March 24, 2010
• Skepticism grows among young Americans
  The Millennial generation has been known for its confidence, upbeat attitude, and its sense of entitlement. But recent polls indicate that 20-somethings, in the midst of a deep recession, are increasingly concerned about finances, their future, and the ability of government to be a force for change.Midmorning, March 24, 2010
• New movie wraps as lawmakers decide fate of state's Film and TV Board
  A new Minnesota feature film wrapped up shooting over the weekend in the Twin Cities. "The Convincer," starring Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin, is the latest project by Minneapolis-based Werc Werk Works. Yet even as the cameras rolled, state legislators debate the future of the state's Film and Television Board.March 22, 2010
• The stories of immigrant families in the US
  Journalist Steve Roberts speaks at the City Club of Cleveland about his new book, "From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America."Midday, March 22, 2010
• Estelle Parsons delves into 'August, Osage County'
  Over the years Estelle Parsons has excelled at many different kinds of acting: she won an Oscar for her role in "Bonnie and Clyde." On TV she had regular roles in both "All in the Family" and on "Roseanne" as Roseanne Barr's acerbic mother. Now she's in St Paul where she is playing Violet Weston, the wasp-tongued, pill-popping matriarch of a dysfunctional family in the awardwinning play "August, Osage County."March 16, 2010

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