Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Winter break could be factor in Iowa caucuses
  Candidates and campaigns are trying to convince college students who go to school in Iowa but live in other states to come back for the Jan. 3 caucuses.5:20 p.m.
• Another swastika found at St. Cloud State
  Another swastika has been found on the campus of St. Cloud State University, drawn on the wall of a residence hall elevator on Thursday afternoon.5:24 p.m.
• Feedlot regulation is a growing patchwork
  From county to county and township to township, the decisions over whether to allow new livestock feedlot operations is very different. Does this make it harder or easier to get a new facility approved?5:50 p.m.
• Commentary: Bhutto assassination is reminder of darker side of Christmas story
  Commentator Rev. Gordon Stewert remembers that part of the Christmas story is about spying, power, murder and exile. The assassination this week of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto reminds him those forces remain at work in the world today.5:54 p.m.
• A visit to Pompeii
  A rare display of Pompeii's artifacts is now in the Twin Cities at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul.6:20 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Word of Advice to the Writerless: Outsource
  Next week, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, and Jimmy Kimmel will be back on late-night TV, without the assistance of writers who have been on strike for more than two months. Other hosts will be back the following week. So what's a late-night comedian to do when the writing well has dried up? Outsource the work to India?
• NFL Does About-Face on Patriots-Giants Game
  This weekend, the New England Patriots could make NFL history, going undefeated for a full, 16-game season. And were it not for a last-minute about-face by the NFL and its network, the game would not have aired in half of all American households.
• Energy Demand Likely to Keep Prices High
  Energy prices continued to soar in 2007, with oil edging toward $100 a barrel. Economists are increasingly convinced that high prices are here to stay. Energy demand from the developed and developing world is outstripping new sources of oil.
• Family Discord a Hit in 'August: Osage County'
  The hit Broadway show August: Osage County is a comic-tragic take on family. It's set in the county where playwright Tracy Letts grew up. His father, Dennis Letts, plays the patriarch of a large dysfunctional family. But the Lettses say it's not about their own family.
• Murder May Be Tied to Online Sex Offender List
  A construction worker with a young son is accused of killing a 67-year-old convicted sex offender who had moved to the northern California town of Lakeport. Prosecutors preparing for a hearing in January are looking into whether the man was murdered because of his listing in the Megan's Law database.
• Chinks Emerge in Giuliani's Firewall Strategy in Fla.
  In Florida, Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani has counted on a first-place finish to jump-start his campaign just before the Feb. 5 slew of primaries, but Giuliani's fortunes there have begun to reflect the decline he has suffered elsewhere.
• Candidates in Iowa Weigh In on Pakistan
  Pakistan events highlight the mood swings in Iowa, where Hillary Clinton is on the offensive again with less than a week to go before the caucuses.
• Snow Plentiful at Colo. Ski Resorts After Slow Start
  As the Northeastern United States enjoys a good snow following last year's abysmal snowfall, the year has been mixed in the West, where Colorado's season got off to a slow start.
• Checking in with South Carolina, Nevada
  This week, we've been checking in on states whose primaries or caucuses are coming up in the next few weeks. Friday we talk with Leroy Chapman, governance editor of The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., and to Molly Ball, a political reporter for the Las Vegas Review Journal.
• Business Is Booming on East Coast Slopes
  The East Coast ski industry got exactly what it wanted for the holidays: snow, and a lot of it. Slopes are packed and business is booming, a big change from last year's warm weather that hammered the early ski season. Will the good times last?
• Pakistan Torn Between Two Worlds
  Adil Najam, professor of public relations at Boston University, says Benazir Bhutto's death was as shocking to Pakistanis as John F. Kennedy's death was to Americans, but that it is consistent with how the country's leaders have left office. He says his country is a democratic society trapped in an undemocratic state.
• Information Surfaces on Bhutto's Final Moments
  Thousands turned out to pay respects to Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who was buried in a family mausoleum near Karachi. New information has come to light about the final moments before her motorcade was attacked Thursday. Her assassination set off riots, but the violence seems to be subsiding.
• Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?
  A day after Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack, there is much speculation about who was behind the assassination. Many people and organizations in Pakistan wanted Bhutto dead. There are doubts that the perpetrators will ever be identified.
• Memories Like Bits of Paper, Shaken in a Jar
  Commentator David Greenberger travels around the country, talking to older people and collecting their stories. This is the story of Gertrude Berg and the difficulty of remembering.
• U.S. Troops Clear Insurgent Haven, Build New Base
  U.S. troops recently cleared out a key haven of al-Qaida in Iraq where insurgents are said to have trained recruits and built bombs used in suicide attacks across Iraq. But the fight in northern Babil province is far from over. As a U.S. base is being built, troops are working with tribal leaders to return order to the region.

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