Republican National Convention Coverage

• Palin takes stage at convention

  Updated 09/04/2008 12:05am

  With an excited and energized party supporting her, juxtaposed with harsh national media criticism, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was nominated Wednesday to be the Republican vice presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

• Republicans, Democrats disagree on youth vote

  Updated 09/03/2008 11:41pm

  As Nov. 4 inches closer, Republican party members said America’s youth are beginning to realize Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is best suited to be the next president.

• St. Paul police chief calls most RNC protests 'peaceful' despite arrests

  Updated 09/04/2008 12:05am

  It’s become an almost regular site near the Xcel Energy Center. Thousands of T-shirt-wearing, finger-flipping, cursing 20-somethings march toward the site of the Republican National Convention along designated routes, with hundreds of police officers dressed head-to-toe in riot gear.

• MSU makes impact at RNC

  Updated 09/02/2008 11:30pm

  MSU’s vice president for governmental affairs brought a touch of Green and White to the Republican National Convention. Steve Webster helped lead a group of Michigan legislators on a tour Tuesday morning of the University of Minnesota, explaining the importance of state funding for universities.

• From MSU to the GOP

  Updated 09/02/2008 9:40pm

  An almost comical steel vault with a lock that is more reminiscent of a steering wheel from a boat in “Pirates of the Caribbean” sits tucked away in one corner of a Capitol Building office in Lansing. This is, after all, the former office of the state treasurer. When remodeling the office, construction workers attempted to remove the safe until the floor started to give, so it will sit in this office indefinitely.

• MSU student attends RNC for second experience

  Updated 09/02/2008 11:18pm

  On the last night of her stay at the Republican National Convention, Maria George mingled inside the Karma Night Club with her family. It was the international relations junior’s second soiree with the national convention — in fact, it’s becoming a sort of family tradition.

• Political passion drives MSU graduate through career

  Updated 09/02/2008 9:40pm

  When Stephen Linder began college at MSU in 1972, he didn’t know what he wanted to do. He had a passion for politics, but he certainly never realized it would become a way of life for him.

• Bush addresses RNC via satellite; absence disappoints delegates

  Updated 09/02/2008 11:27pm

  The crowd’s energy was in full swing at Xcel Energy Center during the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, even if it was a day late. And all eyes at the convention zeroed in on the large TV screens after 9 p.m. as President Bush appeared via satellite. The delegation gave the satellite appearance a standing ovation, cheering into the first words of his speech.

• First lady surprises Mich. Republican delegation

  Updated 09/02/2008 11:32pm

  When first lady Laura Bush walked into a ballroom at the Northland Inn on Tuesday morning, the surprised Michigan Delegation and guests rose to their feet with an eruption of applause.