MPR MN News

We check in with our three bands as they try to turn the words into songs.

Organizers are planning a second anti-war protest during the Republican Convention, and they say this one could include civil disobedience.

Obama will be at a downtown Minneapolis hotel on August 6. Donors are being asked to contribute between $1,000 and $28,500.

It's the first time the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy has stepped in to stop pharmacies from filling online prescriptions written by faraway doctors who have never met their patients in person.

Members of the Minneapolis City Council will discuss a tentative settlement offer Friday, in a case of racial discrimination brought by five police officers.

Northwest said its losses came as it took another large accounting charge, and fuel expenses continued to rise sharply.

Ford Motor Co. is expected tomorrow to identify three truck plants that will convert to car production, and local officials hope one of them will be the St. Paul plant, which has been slated to close next year. But one auto industry analyst doubts St. Paul will be spared.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is asking for public comment on a plan to clean up contamination at the 3M disposal site in Woodbury.

Cleveland Cliffs Corporation says it's planning modifications at its United Taconite plant in Forbes, Minn. that will increase production while decreasing air emissions.

Republican National Convention security organizers say nearly eighty agencies and jurisdictions will contribute 3,000 or more officers to police the event.

Minnesota officials are fighting a slowly advancing gypsy moth invasion and encouraging people to stop helping the troublesome insects.

During this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, Douglas Wilson, co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, discussed Abraham Lincoln's life, writings and desire to keep the country intact.

Sunny days, warm breezes, and languid nights all make us think of summer, and so do certain songs. Midmorning takes a look at the great songs of summertime.

A doctor and expert in bioethics says there's a simple way to cover everyone's health care in the U.S. His approach would give individuals, rather than employers, the means to shop among insurers who would compete for their business.

Priscilla Lord Faris is not a well known Minnesota, but she's hoping her experience as a teacher, lobbyist, city council member and lawyer, as well as her deep Minnesota roots, will convince Minnesota Democrats she, not Al Franken, should be nominated to run against Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.

People are already feeling the pinch when it comes to buying their groceries or gas; how do you get them to give away their money for a new theater or gallery?

The upcoming Republican National Convention will present some serious challenges for employers business and organizations in downtown St. Paul.

A sixth-grade teacher from Stillwater is Minnesota's new teacher of the year for 2008.

Our project looks at the creative process of writing music, through the eyes of three musicians and a lyricist. We hear from the three bands -- Best Friends Forever, Jeremy Messersmith and rapper P.O.S. -- as they get the lyrics from Adam Levy, and begin shaping their songs.

Sixth District Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann insists gas prices would drop significantly if oil companies could drill in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.