Cannon Falls’ message to Obama: Jobs

By on August 13, 2011 in Government, MPR News, Radio

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President Barack Obama is expected to kick off a three-day trip through the Upper Midwest today. His first stop is the small, southeastern Minnesota town of Cannon Falls. The last U.S. president to visit the city was Calvin Coolidge in 1928.

Obama will hear from regular folks about their frustration with Congress and the economy.

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Twin Cities program helps patients discuss end-of-life planning

By on June 23, 2011 in Lifestyle, MPR News, Radio

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Since the mid-1980s, a hospital in La Crosse, Wisconsin has pioneered ways to get people talking about end-of-life planning.

As a result, nearly all adults in the city have planned for future medical care.

Now, hospitals in the Twin Cities are using it as model to create Minnesota’s first large-scale program for end-of-life planning.

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Red Wing area could be a hotbed for ‘frac sand’

By on April 22, 2011 in Environment, MPR News, Radio

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More and more companies are looking at Minnesota for valuable sand that can be used in the oil and natural gas exploration industry.

Geologists say there are virtually unlimited amounts of this kind of sand sitting deep beneath the bluffs that straddle the Mississippi River in southern Minnesota.

One energy company has taken notice and recently purchased a tract of land near Red Wing for sand mining. But residents and environmentalists want to stop the project.

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