The Spoon: 2nd Congressional District showdown

🗳️ DFL U.S. Rep. Angie Craig and Republican Joe Teirab are set to debate at noon today. The south metro rivals are running for the state's most competitive congressional district. (Stream or listen via MPR News)

✈️ MSP Airport is launching a new pick up and drop off area inside the Purple Ramp at Terminal 2. (Info)

🎄Holidazzle will be held at Nicollet Mall instead of Loring Park this year. Organizers scrapped the parade due to costs. (Star Tribune)

📺 Gov. Tim Walz is going on a post-debate media blitz, with plans for interviews with a late-night show, "60 Minutes" and local TV stations. (Axios)

• That's a shift from the first two months as vice presidential nominee, when he largely avoided traditional interviews.

👀 Star Tribune publisher Steve Grove, a former Walz appointee, appeared to acknowledge to newsroom staff during a recent town hall that he's working on a book. (Minnesota Reformer)

🤸 Gymnast Suni Lee revealed that the kidney condition that threatened to derail her career flared up shortly before this year's Olympic Trials. (Glamour)

• Lee, who was just named Glamour's woman of the year, ended up getting a transfusion just a week before competing for her spot on Team USA.