Elizabeth BaierMayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. John Noseworthy took the stage at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York this week with a new kind of partner – Sesame Street Muppet Rosita – and announced a new initiative to promote healthy behavior and disease prevention among women and children in five Latin American countries. Here’s Read more →
MPR News From our outstate correspondents
Archives for September 2013
Dan GundersonA bill introduced in Congress this week would extend a special visa program for Iraqis who assisted the U.S. military. The program is set to expire on October first. In 2008, Congress authorized 25,000 visas over five years for Iraqi nationals who worked for the military. But it’s been reported that only 22 percent of the visas Read more →
The Department of Natural Resources spent about $8.5 million on aquatic invasive species (AIS) programs in 2013. Here’s a breakdown: -Enforcement – $1,780,000 -Inspections – $2,200,000 -Inspection equipment – $270,000 -Public awareness and prevention grants – $300,000 -AIS management – $1,092,000 -Statewide coordination and field operations – $2,200,000 -Asian Carp planning and monitoring – $93,000 Read more →
Dan OlsonIt comes with making birch bark boxes adorned with patterns Losh creates from the barbed, needle-like hair. Read more →
Mark SteilA University of Minnesota genomics scientist is hard at work to sell a new way to change the genetics of livestock Read more →
An Olmsted County judge issued a restraining order this week that temporarily prevents the demolition of a historic public school building in Kasson. Read more →
Hart Van DenburgWinona firefighters are fighting a growing, early morning blaze in the center of the city that the Winona Daily News says began at the Islamic Center. There are no injuries reported so far. MPR reporter Tim Nelson spoke with Jerome Christenson, the deputy editor of the Winona Daily News who has been at the scene, Read more →
(Prairie Pothole Region outlined in blue. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey.) Land use in the Prairie Pothole Region of the upper Midwest has been shifting at an extraordinary rate in recent years, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey. Land enrolled in the Federal Conservation Reserve Program continues to decline at a rapid Read more →
Jennifer EhrlichThe plan to build an Islamic Center is going forward in St. Cloud but the planning commission there only signed off on a limited version of the development. Read more →
Michael OlsonMNsure, the state’s new online health insurance marketplace goes live in three weeks. Tomorrow morning you’ll have two opportunities to ask questions of MNsure executive director April Todd-Malmlov. Listen to the Daily Circuit at 9 and join the online discussion at 10. You can submit your question for the online chat below in the comments Read more →