The University is still among the nation's top research institutions, according to an annual University of Florida report, although the institution fell from last year. The University ranked 13th among...

The Senate's Capital Investment Committee passed a bill Monday to provide more than $48 million in bond funding for University projects. The omnibus bonding bill would restore state money former Gov. Jesse...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed a controversial abortion bill into law Monday, hours after the Senate passed it, and nine years after its proponents first introduced it in the Legislature. The bill - known as...

The U.S. Bank branch on Washington Avenue, near the University's East Bank campus, was robbed Friday afternoon. Customers were directed to U.S. Bank's Coffman Union branch to complete transactions.

The Minneapolis City Council finalized its amended 2003 budget cuts Tuesday, ratifying plans from each city department to trim their budgets and lay off employees. The council cut $20.6 million from its...

University students and environmentalists rallied Tuesday outside the Radisson Hotel Metrodome on Washington Avenue to protest Xcel Energy's plan to expand waste storage at its Prairie Island nuclear plant. "Minnesotans...

The trademark American freedoms to speak, print, assemble and petition government officials are fixtures of U.S. law. Many nations of the world, however, lack a law comparable to the First Amendment. Even...

Children of gay and lesbian parents delivered valentines to legislators Friday, asking them to think of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender families when voting on two controversial bills. "We're not...

Five state senators called on the Legislature on Thursday to pass bonding projects former Gov. Jesse Ventura vetoed last year. The projects include building and maintenance at the University and at Minnesota...

Higher education faculty, students and administrators showcased community improvement programs for the Senate's Higher Education Budget Division on Tuesday. "This is education for regular people who go...

Lawmakers who want to have a drink after a long budget negotiation will pay a little more if they pass a bill supported by some Democrats and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. High school students from across...

Among the millions of people inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech was a white executive named Frank Carr, who noticed the absence of minorities in the corporate world. Today,...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty cut approximately $280 million from state programs and agencies Friday after the House and Senate failed to agree on a plan to contain the state budget deficit in the current fiscal year. A...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty asked Minnesotans for courage and sacrifice to face "The Incredible Hulk of budget deficits" in his first State of the State address Thursday. "We've got a new kind of state budget,"...

State House and Senate budget confrerees failed to reach a compromise late Thursday night, clearing the way for Gov. Tim Pawlenty to unilaterally cut state programs and services to solve the state's fiscal...

Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs professor John Brandl told a House committee Monday the Legislature could protect students from higher education price increases with a budget solution similar to one...

With his approval rating dropping, the public anxious about the economy and the nation facing a possible war, President George W. Bush delivered the annual State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday. "It's...

A Minneapolis City Council committee defeated a resolution Tuesday opposing a war with Iraq. The city's intergovernmental relations committee decided by a 4-1 vote the resolution was beyond the city's...

Minneapolis is the frontrunner to host the Green Party's 2004 national convention, said Jennifer Heiser, Minnesota's representative to the national party, on Saturday at a Minnesota Greens state conference. "They...

With the Republican sweep in November's elections still fresh in their minds, abortion rights supporters and opponents marked the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade - the U.S. Supreme Court decision that...

The national cloning regulation debate spawned by a company's claim to have cloned a person has dominated political news in the past month, along with Democratic candidates preparing to seek their party's...

The United States is at a crucial point in carrying out its foreign policy toward Iraq, and only citizen action can prevent war, speakers at a University forum told several hundred listeners Saturday. "The...

Minnesota's looming $4.56 billion budget deficit resulted from a combination of decreased revenue projections and increased spending forecasts - particularly for health care - state economist Tom Stinson...

The late Sen. Paul Wellstone did not live to receive the Minnesota AIDS Project's lifetime achievement award, but his name will be present whenever the award is conferred in the future. The project gave...

Plato's "Republic," which many regard as the founding document of Western political thinking, describes a government by philosopher-kings. And while the United States decided against governance by kings...

The University's Office of Educational Accountability issued recommendations Wednesday to help the state comply with the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act signed into law in January. The law,...

Cuba's highest-ranking diplomat in the United States told a University audience Monday that Cuba is willing to cooperate with the United States on many issues, despite current U.S. policy. "We do think...

Governor-elect Tim Pawlenty pledged Friday to support affordable housing development in Minnesota, despite the state's ongoing budget shortfall. "We will continue to elevate affordable housing as an important...

Students taking Internet-based distance-learning courses would have a better chance of getting federal financial aid under a bill currently before a Senate committee. The U.S. House passed the Internet...

Gov. Jesse Ventura and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak urged students to vote Tuesday at a voting-power rally on the Northrop Plaza. Rybak said students should vote to make legislators take a student voting...

Gov. Jesse Ventura on Monday appointed Dean Barkley, a two-time Independence Party candidate for U.S. Senate, to serve the remainder of Sen. Paul Wellstone's term. Following Wellstone's Oct. 25 death in...

First lady Laura Bush rallied more than 2,000 Republicans in Eagan on Saturday, promoting the party's state and congressional candidates. "These great candidates will make Minnesota proud," she said. She...

After months of presidential visits, threats of legal action and volley after volley of ads, an intense and raucous gubernatorial race featuring four major-party candidates is almost over. Few will venture...

Calling the facility "the house that Norm built," President George W. Bush praised Republican U.S. Senate candidate Norm Coleman on Sunday in front of thousands of supporters at St. Paul's Xcel Center. "The...

Minnesota's elder statesman, former Vice President Walter Mondale, made his political presence felt by an absence Friday as he declined to appear on a televised Senate candidate debate sponsored by KSTP-TV...

Cheering DFL delegates needed less time to nominate Walter Mondale than he needed to walk through the crowd to the podium and accept. "Tonight the nation, in fact the whole world, is watching Minnesota,...

Flowers and a black ribbon covered a Wellstone campaign sign near the Church of St. Luke in St. Paul on Tuesday, where University educational psychology professor Mary McEvoy's funeral drew hundreds of...

With one week remaining before the Nov. 5 elections, major candidates in the metro area and statewide races have suspended campaign activities in the wake of Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone's death Friday,...

Hundreds of mourners filled a hotel ballroom and lobby in St. Paul late Monday at a visitation for Mary McEvoy, the University educational psychology professor killed Friday in the crash of Sen. Paul Wellstone's...

EVELETH, Minn. - Less than 5 miles from the crash site of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone's plane, approximately 30 Eveleth residents gathered Friday in the United in Christ Lutheran church for a hastily...

The USA Patriot Act passed after last fall's terrorist attacks could help protect the country from terrorism or destroy its most valued freedoms, said two legal experts debating Tuesday at the University's...

Independence Party candidate Tim Penny was the best debater in Monday's televised gubernatorial debate, according to a panel of debate coaches assembled by the Minnesota Debate Teachers Association. Coaches...

The four major-party gubernatorial candidates discussed the state's higher education funding priorities in a televised debate Monday. The state faces a $3 billion deficit entering a legislative session...

Minnesota fills vacancies in the Legislature by special election, ensuring no district goes through a legislative session without a representative in St. Paul. But fewer voters come to the polls for special...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Norm Coleman unveiled his plan Monday to address what he said "should be the most important issue in this race" - the state's economy. "I speak on this issue from the perspective...

As President George W. Bush campaigns for action against Iraq and for Republican candidates nationwide, some observers question whether the two are separate projects. "They've got to keep us scared; they've...

Most Americans favor removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq but would prefer the United States coordinate with its allies, recent polls show. An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sept. 30 found...

The two leading candidates in this year's heated U.S. Senate race clashed in their first televised debate Friday, trading barbs on campaign advertising, Social Security and the recent congressional resolution...

Politicians take advantage of listeners' assumptions about what words mean and distort the truth without actually lying, University of Pennsylvania communication professor Kathleen Jamieson said at the...

Less than seven years after the First Amendment's enactment, the Sedition Act made criticizing the president a criminal offense. The act was one of the "episodes of repression and repentance" in the struggle...

Gov. Jesse Ventura said Monday his June trade mission to China was his proudest accomplishment as governor. "I look forward to the long relationship that will continue between Minnesota and China," he...

To the current generation of University students, "draft" describes beer, a first crack at a term paper or what their favorite teams do every year. "I haven't really heard any student mention (a draft)...

In 2000, Minnesota voters elected the state's first female member of Congress in the nearly 50 years since the Fargo Forum's headline brought Democratic Rep. Coya Knutson's career to an end. "We've made...

A flurry of recent polls shows Minnesota's gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races are too close to predict, with just over a month remaining for candidates to rally voters. The most recent survey results...

A recent General Accounting Office report on education tax credits does not signal a crisis in financial aid for low-income students, Kristine Wright, interim student finance director, said on Tuesday. "This...

Now that Minnesota judicial candidates are allowed to state their positions on issues, Jack Baker has one he would like to raise. The Minneapolis attorney and engineer is challenging Justice Paul Anderson...

Less than a year ago, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, said U.S. involvement in international affairs was the best way to avoid future terrorist attacks. But whether that public concern with international...

For the first time since 1974, Minnesota judicial candidates are able to speak their minds during their campaigns. That permission was granted by a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling at the end of June that...

After walking onstage to a standing ovation Friday, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke in St. Paul about crisis leadership. Giuliani, who led New York during last year's terrorist attacks,...

French politicians have a word for their government's proposal aimed at excluding small, fringe parties from parliament. "Americanizing." Following the surprisingly strong electoral showings of radical...

Minnesota holds primary elections today, allowing voters to choose which candidates will officially represent each political party in November's general election. And to most voters, that doesn't mean...

After narrowly winning the Green Party's endorsement for U.S. Senate, Ed McGaa stands to lose the party's official backing in Tuesday's primary election. McGaa lost Green Party gubernatorial candidate...

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Ken Pentel announced Tuesday he will no longer support his party's endorsed candidate, Ed McGaa, for U.S. Senate. "I like Ed and I had hoped that I could continue supporting...

Hubert "Buck" Humphrey IV, grandson of the late Vice President Hubert Humphrey, greeted members of the age group least likely to vote as they returned to classes Tuesday outside Willey Hall. The DFL-endorsed...

Tim Penny's new bus will be his campaign's signature vehicle - literally. The Independence Party gubernatorial candidate unveiled his Common Cents Express bus at an Aug. 12 State Capitol rally. The mobile...

For gubernatorial candidates used to thinking of the state budget in millions, the monetary scale of their issues was reduced to a hundred bucks. In anticipation of last Wednesday's debate, Twin Cities...

Vice President and Chief of Staff Tonya Moten Brown will leave the University next month to become vice chancellor for administration in the University of Texas System - a newly created position - according...

The biennial drama of the University's legislative budget request will star two newcomers next spring: a first-term governor and a freshly appointed University president. The filing period for gubernatorial...

Vice President and Chief of Staff Tonya Moten Brown will leave the University next month to become vice chancellor for administration in the University of Texas System — a newly created position...

President George W. Bush saw cheering supporters and chanting protesters Thursday during a daylong visit to Minneapolis that included a University Medical School tour and a roundtable discussion with outgoing...

President George W. Bush praised private-sector innovation Thursday and urged seniors to use their purchasing power to lower drug prices. Bush made the comments in Minneapolis as he touted his plan to...