Visitors to Voyageurs National Park and other national parks would be allowed to carry concealed handguns, under a proposal from the U.S. Interior Department.
Bill Moyers raises the alarm over what he sees as inroads into free speech and ethics in government. He has spent the last several years speaking forcefully against the Bush adminstration and censorship of public broadcasting. A selection of those speeches appears in a new book.
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A new national report estimates more than 30 million adults in the U.S. drove under the influence of alcohol at least once in the past year. The study shows the highest rates of drinking and driving are in the upper Midwest.
Keith Gessen is a brave man. He created and edits a caustic literary magazine called "N+1" which has a reputation for its smart and often snarky criticism. Now he's published his own novel and is facing the critics.
Some efforts to make Minneapolis a more livable city are working well; others not so well. That's the gist of a report delivered to the city council's Committee on Health, Energy and the Environment..
Tomorrow, a Minneapolis woman is scheduled to lose her home. Faith Burns has been told to be out of her house. The bank says she's fallen behind on her monthly mortgage payments and is foreclosing on her. We traced the path of Faith Burns' mortgage to Wall Street.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been all over North Carolina and Indiana for the past two weeks, touting their credentials and attacking each other's positions in advance of each state's primary. Midmorning will take a look out how the vote could turn out in both states, and examine how well the candidates' claims stand up to fact-checking.
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It's rare to have the opportunity to see the entire body of work by a major American playwright. Even more rare to see it performed by a theater company pivotal to that playwrights development. But Twin Cities theatergoers have just that opportunity.