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MPR News with Tom Weber

Tom Weber, a reporter and host at MPR News for a decade, resigned effective June 22, 2018. You can find his work covering the people and places of Minnesota here.
https://www.mpr.org/about/people/tweber

How healthy are Minnesota's pension plans?

Changes in how promised benefits are calculated showed that Minnesota has only 53 percent of what it needs to reimburse public employees, according to Bloomberg.
by Tom Weber

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St. Paul poet Danez Smith shines in the national spotlight

St. Paul poet Danez Smith shines in the national spotlight

Danez Smith's latest collection, "Don't Call Us Dead," just landed on the longlist for the National Book Award. The collection explores what it's like to be young, black and gay in America.
by Marianne Combs and MPR News Staff

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Gubernatorial race could determine Southwest light rail's fate

MPR News reporter Brian Bakst breaks down the week's political news, including the time crunch on the Green Line extension. A Republican governor could stop the project before building begins.
by Tom Weber

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