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Throngs of people languishing without appointments are cold-calling pharmacies and driving from clinic to clinic, hunting for an extra dose.

Throngs of people languishing without appointments are cold-calling pharmacies and driving from clinic to clinic, hunting for an extra dose.

By Gregory Thomas 1. The email about a man who drowned while boating on Lake Tahoe arrived in August, when Keith Cormican was in the Canadian Rockies searching for another drowning victim. A young man was missing somewhere in Alberta’s Lake Minnewanka, where the glacial water is so cold that swimmers wear wetsuits even in summer. By now, Cormican is used to pleading messages from desperate strangers. Over the past seven years, he has become one of the nation’s top specialists in a gruesome yet critical task: locating and retrieving lost bodies in lakes or rivers. A stout Midwesterner wi...

Moms are bearing the brunt of U.S. COVID-19 job losses What can be done to establish family first workplace environments? Share this story It didn’t matter how much Sara Warren loved her job when she found out early in the COVID-19 pandemic that her daughter’s preschool was shutting down. With a husband whose work fell under an essential worker designation and no other options for tending their 5-year-old amid a public health crisis that was bringing their hometown near Minneapolis to a near standstill, Warren was forced to walk away from her longtime office manager position. The impacts ...

| 00:09:06 As the Save Our Stages Act makes its way towards becoming law as part of a COVID-19 stimulus bill, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the act's co-sponsor, spoke with The Current's Sean McPherson. Later today, Klobuchar will be joining Dayna Frank at First Avenue to celebrate the bill's progress. (Details have not yet been announced.) For updates on the bill, which has now passed Congress and is waiting for President Donald Trump's signature, follow MPR News. Sean McPherson: Can you tell me about the process [of the Save Our Stages Act becoming law] and where we are at...