Social Issues

School districts set their own policies for providing food when a child's lunch account has run out of money.
St. Paul residents suggest ideas to improve poor neighborhoods
St. Paul community leaders and residents met Thursday night to try to figure out how to use a $500,000 federal grant to improve one of the city's most impoverished areas.
Obama pays somber respects at 9/11 ground zero
Marking Osama bin Laden's death where he caused his greatest damage, the president soberly laid a wreath today at New York's ground zero.
Novelist illuminates a special time in Rome
David Bezmozgis sets his new novel "The Free World" in the late 1970s, when many Soviet Jews fleeing communist Russia ended up in Rome. There they waited to learn where they would end up: the USA, Canada, Australia, or Israel.
A House panel gave approval to proposed constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage in Minnesota Monday. It was the second time in less than a week that legislators moved the measure toward the 2012 ballot.
How can schools prevent gun violence?
School violence prevention has gained renewed attention following incidents at Rocori Middle School in Cold Spring and several other cases nationwide. What are the underlying causes of school violence and how can we keep schools safe?
A state-mandated study into child deaths and near-fatal injuries found men to blame two-thirds of the time. The study could prompt new scrutiny of men from child protection workers.