The country is acknowledging a somber anniversary: 25 years ago, America suffered its worst terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
Friday at noon, MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst explores how that event hit home in Minnesota with former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, whose first ballot-box victory came the same day as the attack. We’ll also look at whether the lessons from the attack endured and how that day changed the country in many ways.
Later, one last — brief — trip to the Great Minnesota Get Together.
The Minnesota State Fair was a hotbed of political activity with people sizing up
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