Elizabeth Baier
Reporter
Minnesota Public Radio
ebaier@mpr.org
Elizabeth Baier joined Minnesota Public Radio in June 2008 after six years of writing for newspapers, including the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald. She holds a bachelors of science degree in journalism and international relations from the University of Miami and a certificate in contemporary Latin American studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. In 2006, she fell in love with multimedia storytelling, which is one of the reasons why she landed in public radio. When she's not looking for a good story, she enjoys traveling, photography and playing sudoku.
Elizabeth Baier Feature Archive
A few weeks ago, company officials with North Star Foods said they would not rebuild a poultry processing plant that burned down last April, and workers in the southeastern Minnesota town of St. Charles are unsure of their future.
(02/02/2010)
Republican Mike Parry won a special
election Tuesday in southern Minnesota for a seat his party has
long controlled.
(01/26/2010)
The Mayo Clinic announced Monday that it will donate $500,000 to disaster relief in Haiti.
(01/25/2010)
A special election Tuesday in the Owatonna area in Southern Minnesota will decide who will fill the seat of longtime Republican state Sen. Dick Day, who announced last month he was leaving the Senate after six terms.
(01/25/2010)
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan left mothers here at home, some of whom have turned to Blue Star Mothers for support and these groups are helping a new wave of moms cope with their children's deployments.
(01/18/2010)
The nation's increasing focus on renewable energy has sparked interest in wind energy projects throughout Minnesota and counties are taking notice.
(01/11/2010)
The Rochester carillon is one of the largest in the country and one of only three in Minnesota. The musical instrument consists of 56 bronze bells housed in a tower.
(12/29/2009)
Parents are looking for answers to cultural clashes after several large fights have broken out between Somali students and white and African Americans students.
(12/23/2009)
John Noseworthy has led the Mayo Clinic for just a month, but he has already stepped into the national spotlight.
(12/18/2009)
The driver of a tour bus on its way home from an Iowa casino lost consciousness, causing the crash that killed two and injured 20 in southern Minnesota last month, a county prosecutor said Friday.
(12/18/2009)
Most of the snow has been cleared from Minnesota highways, but roads were still slippery Thursday, leading to hundreds of spinouts and crashes throughout the state.
(12/10/2009)
Most of southern Minnesota and the Twin Cities metro area will experience sub-zero temperatures overnight, as residents continue to dig out of the first snowstorm of the season.
(12/09/2009)
A British medical journal has published an article outlining the mysterious neurological illness that affected pork plant workers in 2007.
(11/29/2009)
Minnesota launched a hotline this month to help farmers feeling the financial and psychological impact of the tough times.
(11/27/2009)
Members of the Prairie Island Indian Community will rally this Friday morning to oppose the expansion of a nearby power plant.
(11/26/2009)