At noon today, Minnesota Public Radio News and the weekly newspaper Hometown Focus will host an online forum about the challenges facing rural health providers in Virginia and beyond.
Target launched its Meals for Minds program at Sheridan, its fifth site in the Twin Cities. Meals for Minds brings food into schools, allowing whole families to come and pick out enough for 15 to 20 meals. It's almost like a food shelf comes to the school for an evening.
Reality is beginning to sink in for students and staff at Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College. School officials announced 10 percent budget cuts on the two campuses totaling $5 million.
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Issues include the diminished size of the orchestra; preserving the minimum number of rehearsals required for each concert; and the musicians' need to support themselves with another job.
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Stuffed with canned fruit, bread, or maybe some soup, the backpacks distributed by two Rochester schools help tackle a problem that many Minnesotans don't think about: children who rely on school lunch programs sometimes don't have enough to eat on the weekends.
Just like a severe summer weather watch, the idea is to get the attention of local residents and city officials. And it works. In Fargo Moorhead the flood outlook is likely more noticed than winning Powerball numbers.
A coalition of groups in Minnesota plans to boost efforts to generate energy through solar power. The Environmental Minnesota organization wants the state to set a goal of having 10 percent of Minnesota's electricity come from solar power by 2030.