How does ranked-choice voting work?October 29, 2013 4:38 AMBy Curtis GilbertRanked choice voting. Explained.
Injuries among fears pushing some Minnesota kids away from footballOctober 14, 2013 11:00 PMBy Trisha VolpeAcross Minnesota, some youth football teams are seeing drops in overall participation. Worries over head injuries are largely to blame.
Play38min 19secTalking Volumes: Margaret Atwood on 'MaddAddam'October 7, 2013 9:00 AMWe air Kerri Miller's conversation with author Margaret Atwood at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.
MPR offers art you can look down onAugust 13, 2013 8:27 AMBy Marianne CombsMinnesota Public Radio has commissioned a temporary work of art designed to be enjoyed from above. Artist JoJo was given a piece of open space as his canvas — a grassy triangle adjacent to MPR headquarters — on which to spray paint an image visible to people looking out their office windows. MPR Photographer Jeffrey…
Lilydale landslide: Parents say they weren't warned of field trip's risks [video]July 24, 2013 10:37 PMBy Trisha Volpe"We trusted the school like our family," said the father of one fourth-grader killed in the incident.
Play4min 33secVideo: Ex-radical Sara Jane Olson takes on new causeMay 28, 2013 3:04 PMBy Trisha VolpeSince Sara Jane Olson was released from a California prison four years ago, she's lived a relatively private life in her St. Paul neighborhood. Olson served seven years in prison for her involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army in the 1970s -- a radical group best known for kidnapping Patty Hearst. Now she's moving back into public life by petitioning the White House to reduce disparities in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine.
Video: A child's life in a homeless shelterMarch 25, 2013 12:00 AMBy Nikki Tundel and Julie SipleOn any given night, more than 100 families stay at People Serving People, a homeless shelter in downtown Minneapolis. MPR News spent time with one of the shelter's residents, a third-grader named Paris.
Video: Restoration project brings war relic, memories back to life for veteransAugust 1, 2011 12:00 AMBy Ashley HalbachA 40-year-old war relic is being brought painstakingly back to life by a group of Minnesota military veterans.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty announces he will not seek a third termJune 2, 2009 7:40 PMGov. Tim Pawlenty announced on June 2, 2009 that he would not seek a third term as governor of Minnesota. He did not say whether or not he would be making a run for president in 2012.
Preserving Ojibwe cultureMay 22, 2009 5:09 PMBy Ambar EspinozaMPR Reporter Ambar Espinoza visited the Minisinaakwaang Leadership Academy, on the Mille Lacs Indian reservation, where students learn traditional Ojibwe language and cultural traditions