Minnesota 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…
Since 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.
On 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.
Gov. 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.
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MPR Reporter Ambar Espinoza visited the Minisinaakwaang Leadership Academy, on the Mille Lacs Indian reservation, where students learn traditional Ojibwe language and cultural traditions