Thursday, May 23 2013 2:28 PM EDT2013-05-23 18:28:06 GMT
Mankato's style of *Community Policing is getting international attention. A group of law enforcement professionals from Afghanistan got a private tour of The Mankato Department of Public Safety yesterday.
Mankato's style of *Community Policing is getting international attention. A group of law enforcement professionals from Afghanistan got a private tour of The Mankato Department of Public Safety yesterday.
Thursday, May 23 2013 2:22 PM EDT2013-05-23 18:22:20 GMT
A very special and prominent visitor to Mankato today, and while here the Chief Executive Officer of General Motors stopped by his old stomping grounds to offer some advice to hundreds of Mankato students.
A very special and prominent visitor to Mankato today, and while here the Chief Executive Officer of General Motors stopped by his old stomping grounds to offer some advice to hundreds of Mankato students.
Thursday, May 23 2013 2:18 PM EDT2013-05-23 18:18:20 GMT
It is the unofficial start to summer this weekend and If you're looking for some R&R you won't have to travel that far. Minneopa State Park has the majority of their campsites booked.
It is the unofficial start to summer this weekend and If you're looking for some R&R you won't have to travel that far. Minneopa State Park has the majority of their campsites booked.
Thursday, May 23 2013 2:11 PM EDT2013-05-23 18:11:11 GMT
Some encouraging news today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens.
Some encouraging news today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens.
ST. PAUL, Minn. -
An openly gay, Evangelical Lutheran pastor from St. Paul has been appointed to a prominent leadership role-to fight discrimination. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America or ELCA, named Anita C. Hill as the regional director with a group called Reconciling Works.
The E.L.C.A. called the news "historic." Anita Hill says her new role will be "to help congregations be fully welcoming in the pulpit and the pew"-to all people, no matter their race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.
Hill says, "It has been surprising to me and very wonderful to me but all along the way I have known that there are individuals in the church who are certainly ready to move forward long before the whole institution was."
Emily Eastwood is Reconciling Works' Executive Director. She says, "I think there are a lot of gays and lesbians and bisexuals and transgendered people who are in positions of power, not all of them are able to be open about who they are so what is special about this is that she has been out of the closet for a very long time."
Hill has been out of the closet since 1974. Still, her St. Paul congregation was sanctioned by the ELCA in 2001 when it broke church rules and formally ordained her as their minister. Although the rules were changed by the ELCA in 2009, Hill remains a trail- blazing minority among gay clergy.
