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The Rev. Peg Chemberlin, executive director of the Minnesota Council of Churches, will be installed as President of the National Council of Churches at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 12, in a public service at St.

Though you might not be able to run away from your problems, moving to another state could be good for the soul.

Like it or not, a Minnesota winter is just around the corner. And the Department of Public Safety wants us all to be prepared.

The 2009 Minnesota Cattle Feeder Day swill be held Tuesday, Dec. 8 at the Blue Mound Banquet Center in Luverne, Minn.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : A U.S. lawmaker wants federal investigators to assess the risk for E. coli contamination in food used for school meal programs.

For Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, it's goodbye farm fields, hello palm trees. Less than a week after a highly anticipated speech to Iowa Republicans, Pawlenty makes his way this week to Florida.

Zimmerman is one of eight Minnesota communities that will receive $10.8 million in funding from the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority for improvements to drinking water and wastewater plants.

Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty last week proposed a constitutional amendment to cap state spending, the Pioneer Press reported.

Barely a year into his first term, Gov. Tim Pawlenty set out to end long-term homelessness in Minnesota by 2010, an audacious-sounding goal that he insisted was "very real and attainable." "Our homeless population in Minnesota isn't so large that we can't solve the problem in the near and intermediate term," he said in his January 2004 State of the ...

An industry lawsuit filed against New York City's electronic waste disposal law could affect Minnesota's e-waste laws, fears Rep.

Last update: November 5, 2009 - 6:29 PM In the fall of 1909, the Minneapolis Tribune sponsored a contest seeking a new school song for the University of Minnesota.

Nurses are being put "in harm's way" by a state policy that only recommends surgical masks to protect them from H1N1 flu at work, the Minnesota Nurses Association declared Thursday.

MinnPost photos by Wilt Hodges, Joey Peters and Emily Ness For many months, retail reports, financial statistics and monthly jobless updates have relentlessly driven home to all of us the bleak state of the national and regional economy.

As Congress begins voting on health care reform, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty urged Republican activists on Saturday to use public anger over the issue as the linchpin of their battle to return to power.

Minnesota's DFL party will hold three debates in the next five weeks for its gubernatorial candidates.

In this Nov. 1, 2009, file photo, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine listens as President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Corzine at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, N.J. Oh, how the tables have turned.

U.S. Sen. Al Franken joined his colleagues Senators Sherrod Brown and Bob Casey to support the COBRA Subsidy Extension and Enhancement Act .

Minnesota officials are arranging health care coverage for 28,000 patients whose state-paid health insurance plan is slated to end on March 1. The Human Services Department announced the plan on its Web site Friday.

Internet speeds in more than four-fifths of Minnesota are too slow to support technologies that could draw new jobs, take cars off the roads and bring new services to people in their homes, a new report said Friday.

Check out the environmentally sound items on the Sierra Club website: natural hemp clotheslines, patchouli-scented kerosene for the new read more kerosene televisions, cord removal kits for electric blankets, and refrigerators that use natural ice for cooling rather than electricity and weird chemicals.