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News & Features Archive
Friday, November 6, 2009
An exchange of letters this week between top officials at the University of Minnesota and the Metropolitan Council illustrate an increasingly testy relationship between the two institutions as they work to resolve their differences over the proposed Central Corridor transit project.
(11/06/2009)
Minnesota Congressman Tim Walz said he'll support the House health care bill that's scheduled for a vote on Saturday.
(11/06/2009)
Somali immigrants face many challenges adjusting to life in America. As part of our Youth Radio Series, Sadiya Mohamed describes her search for home in America.
(11/06/2009)
Bemidji-based writer Kent Nerburn writes fictional narratives based on the real stories of people he has met on reservations in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Nerburn's latest book, "The Wolf at Twilight," explores the sad legacy of the Indian Boarding schools.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty is postponing a brief
trade trip to Mexico, saying that President Felipe Calderon has a
scheduling conflict.
After wrapping up the Stress-testing the recovery series, All Things Considered followed up with a couple of the people most affected by the recession.
A federal grand jury has indicted two men for allegedly growing 428 marijuana plants on Aitkin County land.
The St. Paul School District plans to narrow its list of candidates for superintendent to three by the end of next week.
DFL 7th District Congressman Collin Peterson says he will vote no on the health care bill that is scheduled for a weekend vote in the U.S. House.
A vote on the House version of the health care overhaul bill, which includes a so-called "public option," could come this weekend, and supporters believe the alternative would inject more competition into the health insurance market.
A 23-year-old soldier from St. Paul was among the 13 people killed at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, his family said Friday.
The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said Friday that Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak violated state reporting requirements when he paid for an opinion survey earlier this year.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services said today that low-income Minnesotans who are scheduled to lose taxpayer funded health insurance in March will be rolled into a different state program.
Attorneys say a construction company that was
working on the Minneapolis bridge when it collapsed in 2007 have
settled lawsuits filed by victims.
A man so broke that he said he didn't have
the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at
the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one
person and wounding five, authorities said.
A new Vikings fan group has sprung up to
push Minnesota lawmakers to consider stadium legislation.
The motorized recliner seized by a northern Minnesota police department has sold for $10,099, but the chair's new owner hasn't come forward yet.
Medical device maker Boston Scientific says it
will pay $296 million to settle a Department of Justice
investigation into the company's Guidant unit.
Bail has been set at $1 million for a man
accused of killing a Fargo dentist in a murder-for-hire scheme.
Forest Lake schools were locked down briefly this morning, after a staff member reportedly sighted an unknown person on campus around 8 o'clock.
An Austin police captain has been
convicted of removing prescription narcotics from the department's
evidence room.
Police at the University of Minnesota have issued a crime alert after a student was robbed and assaulted at a restaurant near the Minneapolis campus.
Thieves in Carver County have targeted an
experimental grapevine that could lead to a new type of wine.
An Army reservist who was living in the Twin Cities area was one of 30 people wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, her family said.
The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent
for the first time since 1983 - and is likely to go higher.
A group looking at flood control options for
the Fargo area is narrowing its list.
The family of a Random Lake soldier
injured in the Fort Hood shooting says Amber Bahr was shot in the
back and is undergoing tests.
The high school soccer season ended yesterday in Minnesota with a big upset.
An Army psychiatrist suspected of
opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his
apartment in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead,
a neighbor said Friday.
President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24
billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to
prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the
longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers
toward recovery.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty travels to
northwestern Minnesota Friday the Seventh Annual Governor's Deer
Hunting Opener.
The Minnesota National Guard is welcoming
home 12 soldiers on Friday from a one-year deployment to
Afghanistan.
The end of cancer treatment and court
hearings could be in sight for Sleepy Eye teen Daniel Hauser.
There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man
authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S.
military base. Most of all, though: his motive.
The H1N1 vaccine campaign is gradually picking up speed in Minnesota, but health officials fear that the doses may be arriving too late for some people who think the worst of the outbreak has passed.
In a report out Friday, a broadband task force appointed by Gov. Pawlenty urges moving Minnesota into the top tier of states when it comes to speed and accessibility.
For some areas of Minnesota, economic recovery means overcoming unemployment rates that have reached double digits. Midday features stories from four cities with some of the highest jobless rates in the state: Hibbing, Bemidji, Albert Lea and Brainerd.
Dawn Upshaw returns in her role as Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She sings some signature music by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov and a world premiere by film composer Alberto Iglesias.
National unemployment has reached 10.2%, a high not seen since 1983. Economists worry that consumer spending may continue to be weak, slowing the rest of the economy.
Infant mortality rates in the U.S. are high relative to other industrialized countries. But one hospital in Texas may have figured out how to reduce infant deaths, in part by putting more clinics closer to the women who need prenatal care. A look at the factors that may lead to better births.
The United States is facing a dramatic demographic challenge: Young Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the population, and they are the least likely to graduate from college. Experts say the future of the American economy is at stake, because higher education is essential in the 21st century economy. A new American RadioWorks documentary, "Rising by Degrees," tells the story of Latino students working towards a college degree -- and why it's so hard for them to get what they want.
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