Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Rybak calls for review of police actions during RNC
  Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak says the convention was a success overall, but he says there are several matters that deserve a closer look. The Minneapolis City Council is also pushing for reviews.4:49 p.m.
• Law professor Tom Berg talks about religion and the law
  Two developments this week are sending mixed messages to workers who are looking for religious accomodation in the work place. Tom Crann talked with St. Thomas law professor Tom Berg for some background on religion and law.4:51 p.m.
• Home heating worries arrive with cold weather
  Home heating costs will be higher this winter, with fuel oil customers seeing the sharpest increase. Experts say those households may be the least able to absorb the cost.5:23 p.m.
• Songs for the lovelorn
  For centuries, lovelorn souls have written letters addressed to "Juliet, Verona, Italy." They're writing to the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. A production at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis takes a musical and theatrical look at "The Juliet Letters."5:50 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Neb. Town OKs ATVs On Streets Despite Warnings
  Alliance, Neb., is one of several towns in the state allowing people to ride all-terrain vehicles on city streets in the face of high gas prices. Riders say using the small, low-slung vehicles saves money on gas, but some officials are concerned about safety.
• Bush Dedicates 9/11 Memorial At Pentagon
  The first of three major Sept. 11 remembrance sites was dedicated Thursday outside of Washington. The Pentagon Memorial is a two-acre park built along the path of the American Airliner that crashed into the building, killing 184 people.
• Egyptian Dissident Blasts Bush On Freedom Agenda
  A leading Egyptian dissident says President Bush raised expectations high with talk of a "Freedom Agenda," but as Bush's term nears an end, the U.S. has little to show for it. Saad Eddin Ibrahim says Bush betrayed Arab democrats.
• In Fla., Families Struggle To Get Aid To Haiti, Cuba
  In South Florida, Haitian-Americans and Cuban-Americans are mobilizing to help their friends and relatives back home. Conditions in Haiti make it hard to get aid to those who need it. Cuban-Americans face an embargo and restrictions of travel.
• Ike Prompts Evacuations In Texas
  Authorities in the Houston area and along the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate as Hurricane Ike barreled toward the coast. Galveston County Daily News reporter Leigh Jones says tides are already exceptionally high.
• Pigs Out, But Artist Sells Tattoo Off Man's Back
  Eight tattooed pigs were supposed to be part of Wim Delvoye's exhibit at a Chinese art show. But authorities didn't consider them art, so Delvoye tattooed an elaborate scene on a man's back and displayed him instead. A collector has purchased the tattoo — with the right to remove it after the man dies.
• Sex Scandal At Federal Agency Is Not New
  News that workers in the Denver office of the Minerals and Management Service were caught up with alcohol, sex and drugs is a throwback to a scandal from 1990. At that time, workers in the MMS' Denver and Dallas offices partied with prostitutes.
• Seven Years After Attacks, No Memorial In NYC
  For all the scenes of cranes at work at ground zero in New York City, the site is still a giant, lifeless crater seven years after two hijacked airplanes destroyed the twin towers. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker, offers his insight.
• On Sept. 11, McCain, Obama Put Aside Rancor
  Amid an increasingly nasty presidential campaign, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama agreed to take a break from partisan politics on the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. However, the attacks remain a potent political symbol.
• Much-Awaited Palin Interview Airs On ABC
  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's first television interview as the Republican vice presidential candidate aired Thursday night on ABC.
• Cunningham Opus To Be Performed Thursday
  The Merce Cunningham Dance Company will present Ocean in Minnesota's Rainbow Granite Quarry Thursday and Friday. It calls for 150 musicians to sit around the audience and has been performed only once before in its entirety.
• Letters: Putting Lipstick On A Pig
  Many listeners responded to Wednesday's interview with Joel Salatin, a Virginia farmer who tried to put lipstick on his pigs. Responses were both varied and colorful.
• Ex-IMF Official: Money Crisis Not Over
  Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, has said the U.S. financial crisis is at the halfway point, with the worst yet to come. Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard University, says the banking industry is bloated.
• Fannie, Freddie Takeover Plan Weeks In Making
  Markets are still adjusting to the Treasury Department's decision to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The announcement took Fannie and Freddie executives by surprise, but federal regulators had been working out the plan's details for weeks.
• Does Race Matter In '08? The View From York, Pa.
  When voters choose between McCain and Obama, how will their experiences with race affect their decisions? As a panel of 13 people from York, Pa., debated a thorny topic, a theme emerged.

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