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Stories from December 5, 2018

South Carolina provost poised to be next U of M president

South Carolina provost poised to be next U of M president

Joan Gabel, currently the University of South Carolina's chief academic officer and provost, was named the sole finalist Wednesday to take over the University of Minnesota. She'll be the first woman to lead the system.
by Peter Cox

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USA Gymnastics files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

USA Gymnastics files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

While USA Gymnastics says bankruptcy gives it "the opportunity to reorganize," it's not clear how the filing is helpful to the victims of sexual abuse allegedly by a former team doctor.

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Forecast Public Art looks back on 40 years of creativity

Forecast Public Art looks back on 40 years of creativity

In its decades of life, the organization has worked to connect artists to communities that need them.
by Marianne Combs

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Michigan Senate OKs bill to enable Great Lakes pipeline deal

Michigan Senate OKs bill to enable Great Lakes pipeline deal

The Michigan Senate voted Wednesday to facilitate a deal to replace a contentious 65-year-old oil pipeline in the Great Lakes, approving legislation to empower a new authority to oversee the construction and operation of a utility tunnel that would encase the new pipeline.
by Associated Press

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Developer to build 70 homes in response to Mpls. homeless camp

Developer to build 70 homes in response to Mpls. homeless camp

A Twin Cities affordable housing developer plans to build a 70-unit apartment building in Minneapolis in response to the homeless encampment along Franklin and Hiawatha avenues.
by Max Nesterak

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Consolidation of power

In Wisconsin and Michigan, outgoing GOP lawmakers are working to limit the authority of incoming newly-elected Democrats. What does this mean for democracy? What does it say about how divided we are as a nation?
by Kerri Miller and Marcheta Fornoff

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Infections may raise the risk of mental illness in children

Infections may raise the risk of mental illness in children

A large study of Danish kids finds that childhood infections are linked with a higher risk of developing some mental illnesses. The risk is highest in the months immediately following the infection.
by Rhitu Chatterjee

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Leaders who unite us

Our country is painfully divided. There was a time when we looked to our leaders to unite us. But what about now? Is there anything or anyone that could unite America?
by Kerri Miller and Elizabeth Shockman

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Study: Cover crops, trees key to fighting climate change

Study: Cover crops, trees key to fighting climate change

A new study finds that changes in land use across the country could help mitigate climate change in a bigger way than previously known, without affecting land humans need.
by Cody Nelson

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Happy 86th birthday, Little Richard

He retired from active touring several years ago, after hip surgery, but his career stretches back to the very beginnings of rock and roll — as does the list of artists he influenced. (For one, a then-unknown Jimi Hendrix played the guitar on Richard's 1965 recording of "Going Home Tomorrow.")
by Cathy Wurzer

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Cuba extends internet to mobile phones, promising new access

Cuba extends internet to mobile phones, promising new access

It was only 10 years ago that the Castro government lifted its ban that prohibited regular citizens from buying computers. Today, phones are a key method of accessing the Internet in Cuba.
by Bill Chappell

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School-based counselors help kids cope with fallout from drug addiction

School-based counselors help kids cope with fallout from drug addiction

More than 50 Massachusetts schools are participating in a new program that brings counselors in to help children deal with the stress and trauma of living in families struggling with drug addiction.
by Rachel Gotbaum

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Feds could slash $100 million from reinsurance program

"This is obviously a dramatic change," one state official acknowledged. It's also not the first time the state has run into trouble with federal funding for reinsurance
by Briana Bierschbach

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Too old, too frail, survivors of the USS Arizona to miss annual ceremony

There are only five men left of the survivors of the USS Arizona, sunk by the Japanese in the attack on Pearl Harbor 77 years ago Friday. For the first time in years, no survivor of the Arizona will make the trip to Oahu for ceremonies and return the salute as a Navy ship passes by the memorial.
by Bob Collins

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Snowball ban doesn’t stand a chance after 9-year-old objects

The sooner Dane Best, 9, of Severance, Colorado, grows up, the sooner we can get some of the country's nagging problems solved. Dane Best solves problems. Take that ban on snowball fights in his community.
by Bob Collins

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Democrats weigh options in potentially tainted NC congressional race

Democrats weigh options in potentially tainted NC congressional race

State investigators appear focused on whether a Republican political operative violated the law by hiring people to collect mail-in ballots from voters. The GOP candidate won with a 900-vote margin.
by Miles Parks

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Wisconsin lawmakers vote to limit powers of new Democratic governor

Wisconsin lawmakers vote to limit powers of new Democratic governor

Despite protests from voters, Republican legislators in Wisconsin have voted to curb the authority of Gov.-elect Tony Evers, a Democrat who will take office in January. The list of changes is long.
by Laurel White and Shawn Johnson

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Recount pending in suburban state House race

Democratic candidate Donzel Leggett requested the recount after he lost a House race by 117 votes.
by Briana Bierschbach

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A nation's farewell: Bush saluted with praise, humor, cannons

A nation's farewell: Bush saluted with praise, humor, cannons

The nation's capital bids its final farewell to the late president, George H.W. Bush, in a service of prayer and praise that is drawing together world envoys, Americans of high office and a guy from Maine who used to fix things in Bush's house on the water.
by The Associated Press

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When radio connected ‘lonely souls’

If you've never lived in small-town America, you've missed heroes at work -- the people who got up before dawn and went into a tiny shack somewhere, read the school-lunch menus, the lost and found items, spinning some platters, and making people feel as if they're listening to a neighbor, because they are.
by Bob Collins

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Lovely bones: Skull man of Bemidji strips taxidermy to its core

Lovely bones: Skull man of Bemidji strips taxidermy to its core

Deer hunting is over across most of Minnesota. But for one Bemidji man, a different kind of season is just getting started. Tony Petrie makes European mounts, and it's not a job for the squeamish.
by John Enger

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So, you want to be Santa? Here's how to avoid rookie mistakes

So, you want to be Santa? Here's how to avoid rookie mistakes

Santa Claus is in town again, along with a corps of brother Santas helping out around Minnesota. The big guy from the North Pole needs a hand this time of year to greet all the boys and girls and hear their Christmas wishes.
by Martin Moylan

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How to shovel your sidewalk

First of all, the whole call-the-cops-on-your-neighbor-rather-than-talking-to-them thing is creepy. And oh so Minnesotan.
by Bob Collins

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Thou shalt not speak ill of Aaron Rodgers

Thou shalt not speak ill of Aaron Rodgers

What gets you fired quicker in the National Football League: treating a woman like a ragdoll? Or criticizing a prima donna quarterback? I know. Silly question.
by Bob Collins

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Insurance companies penalize people who want to help opioid addicts

Insurance companies are flagging people who've bought Naloxone, as in the case of one woman who has been trying to buy life insurance, but has been denied because of the prescription.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News – 12/5/18

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
by Bob Collins

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Mueller recommends no prison for Flynn, citing cooperation

Mueller recommends no prison for Flynn, citing cooperation

The special counsel's office is calling Michael Flynn's cooperation "substantial" in documents that provide some detail about the former Trump administration national security adviser's assistance in the Russia probe.
by The Associated Press

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Globe University, Minnesota School of Business argue for more limited student restitution

Globe University, Minnesota School of Business argue for more limited student restitution

Two schools found to have misled students say they don't have to pay everyone deceived, but the state of Minnesota disagrees. The two sides tangled over that question before the Minnesota Supreme Court Tuesday.
by Peter Cox

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