Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Excelsior Energy debate goes to the public
  Opponents of Excelsior Energy's proposed coal gasification power plant are focusing on water discharges to Iron Range mine pit.7:20 a.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Mathematician Declines Top Prize
  A Russian named Grigory Perelman, is credited with helping solve a famous 100-year-old math problem. Both the problem and the man who solved it are a bit of a puzzle.
• Iraq Violence Grows Despite U.S. Security Plan
  The rising death toll and number of insurgent attacks in Iraq has forced the U.S. to add troops in Baghdad to try and reverse the trend in the country's capital. The U.S. plans to eventually turn over security responsibility to Iraqis.
• Gas Prices Drive Ford F-Series Sales Slump
  Ford Motor Company's recent decision to reduce production of its very successful F-Series trucks is probably a direct result of rising gas prices. It's been the best selling pick-up truck in the country for more than two decades.
• Ancient Bones Found to be Pygmies, not 'Hobbits'
  Almost two years ago, scientists found bones of an unknown species of early humans. These people were tiny, and the one skull they found had a braincase that looked too small to be human. Now another group of scientists says the bones were actually pygmies, and the skull was small because that individual was diseased.
• Government Concerned by Animal-Rights Activists
  In Los Angeles, federal and local authorities are worried about what they call escalating threats from radical animal-rights activists. Some city officials, including the ex-head of the city's animal control department, have required constant security after attacks on their homes.
• Journalist Says Iraq Security Outlook is Bleak
  One observer of the security situation in Iraq says that the U.S. response to Iraq's growing violence is failing to quell the trouble.
• Banker Quattrone Avoids Third Trial
  Investment banker Frank Quattrone, once a power in California's Silicon Valley, avoids a third trial on obstruction and witness tampering charges with the acceptance by a New York judge of an agreement between Quattrone and prosecutors.
• Gunfire Punctuates News of Runoff Vote in Congo
  The Democratic Republic of Congo's landmark elections are not going as smoothly as was hoped. Gunfire erupted in Kanshasa after officials announced that President Joseph Kabila had failed to win an outright majority in the country's first free election in more than four decades. An Oct. 29 runoff is scheduled between Kabila and former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba.
• Welfare Reform Changes Women's Lives
  At the end of his second term, former President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, making good on his promise of "ending welfare as we know it." Ten years later, millions of American women have moved off of welfare and into the workforce.
• Kureishi on Changes in British Immigrant Life
  Renee Montagne speaks with award-winning author Hanif Kureishi. Kureishi became popular in the 1980s for his depiction of life in London as a Muslim, and the divided loyalties of leading a modern life within an immigrant community. We ask him how relations in London have changed over the years since he first began writing about the issue.
• British Terrorism Suspects Appear in Court
  Ten men and one woman appear in a London court on charges of violating anti-terrorism laws. Prosecutors said Monday they would charge the group in connection with an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners.
• TV Channel Cuts Scenes of Smoking in Cartoons
  The classic cartoon channel Boomerang has agreed to cut scenes from Tom and Jerry cartoons showing characters smoking. A British media watchdog complained about cartoons that put smoking in a positive light. Turner Broadcasting, which runs Boomerang, has agreed to review its archive material.
• Lebanese Families Cope with War Deaths
  Lebanon's government estimates more then 1,000 people were killed during 34 days of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. Most of the dead and wounded were civilians, hit by Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire.
• States Make Medicaid Patients Responsible for Care
  This summer West Virginia is launching a new experiment in health care. It will reduce health benefits for Medicaid recipients who fail to follow doctors' orders, or who use emergency rooms for non-emergency care. Kentucky is starting a similar program. Advocates say making patients more responsible for their own care will save money for the state.
• California Raising Minimum Wage to $8
  California lawmakers agree to raise the minimum wage by almost 20 percent over the next 18 months. The increase will lift the state's minimum wage from $6.75 an hour to $8 an hour. It will be implemented in two steps, first a 75-cent increase at the beginning of 2007, and then another 50-cent increase on January 1, 2008.

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