Trump’s legal team deserves credit for their work, not condemnation
While the lawyers representing former President Donald Trump have generally been derided by commentators, observers, savants and other know-it-alls, it might be time to take another look at their...
View ArticleToday in Minnesota: Business thrives, inequalities widen, largesse and growth...
“Reappraising Minnesota” is a commentary series that seeks to re-evaluate Minnesota’s basic condition today and its evolution since 1973, when a Time magazine cover story praised it as “A State That...
View ArticleMucci’s and Saint Dinette owner Tim Niver says challenges for restaurants are...
Tim Niver is owner operator of Mucci’s and Saint Dinette in St. Paul. One of the more outspoken restaurateurs in town, he also hosts the Niver Niver Land podcast, where he converses with chefs,...
View ArticleEthicist to University of Minnesota audience: Address health equity in...
While no one will escape the effects of climate change, its impacts “do not fall fairly” and require robust strategies to address health inequity, an ethicist told a group of University of Minnesota...
View ArticleSt. Paul teachers union authorizes strike vote
Via Bring Me the News: The Saint Paul Federation of Educators has authorized a strike vote amidst stalled negotiations. “Teachers, educational assistants and school and community service professional...
View ArticleFire destroys Lutsen Lodge
Paul Walsh and Jana Hollingsworth Star Tribune report a fire early Tuesday destroyed the historic Lutsen Lodge on the North Shore overlooking Lake Superior. The lodge has been in operation for nearly...
View ArticlePromoters of physician-assisted suicide ignore ways that could improve...
Here we go again. The wealthy, white and disproportionately powerful lobby groups rabidly promoting doctor-prescribed suicide for people with disabilities are back at it in Minnesota. So bold, they...
View ArticleLittle Falls hospital, school district jump into the childcare fray
Jon Radermacher remembers searching around for child care as a first-time dad. He’s been through the process multiple times — and knows there’s something wrong. He moved from Madison, Minnesota, where...
View ArticleArtists explore indigenous histories, connection to nature in joint shows at...
The idea for “Mygration,” an installation by Swedish artist Stina Folkebrant and Sámi artist Tomas Colbengtson, began as a dream. “I have this dream, and I see the whole exhibition in my dream— with...
View ArticleCarbon pipelines play key role in efforts to cut emissions, but landowners...
This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America, with major...
View ArticleTickets available to public for MinnPost Social: 2024 Legislative Preview
Tickets are now on sale to the general public for MinnPost Social: 2024 Legislative Preview on Wednesday, February 28 from 5:30-7 p.m. at Icehouse in south Minneapolis. PURCHASE TICKETS>> It will...
View ArticleMinnesota estimates 300,000 will qualify for child tax credit
WCCO’s Esme Murphy reports an estimated 300,000 Minnesotans will qualify for a child tax credit with the average credit being just over $1,200. Minnesota Reformer reports recent data from the American...
View ArticleTwin Cities Tesla employee arrested after threats to kill Elon Musk,...
Paul Walsh at the Star Tribune is reporting a Twin Cities Tesla employee, Justin M. McCauley, was arrested near Tesla’s headquarters in Austin, Texas, after threatening to kill the company’s owner,...
View ArticleMinnesota’s U.S. House members raise millions of dollars in campaign cash as...
WASHINGTON — With the GOP’s control of the U.S. House on the line, an open seat and a vulnerable incumbent, the race for campaign cash is in full swing for Minnesota’s congressional candidates. The...
View ArticleWhy Payne Avenue’s Plaza Del Sol project represents the beating heart of...
The 110-year-old yellow building, originally built as a furniture store, has long caught my eye on the corner of Payne and Jenks avenues on St. Paul’s East Side. First, it was because of the...
View ArticleMinnesota teens, through their art, spark conversations about youth mental...
A hand holding a wounded heart wrapped in duct tape. A young woman slowly sinking into a sea of social media icons. In these arresting images, two Minnesota teens tried to sum up some of the mental...
View ArticleCalifornia’s new animal welfare legislation offers Minnesota a path toward...
In Minnesota, hogs outnumber humans. With roughly 15 million pigs sold each year, Minnesota is the second largest pork producing state in the nation. As of Jan. 1, new animal welfare legislation known...
View ArticlePossibility of wildlife-to-human crossover heightens concern about chronic...
Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make their way into forests and grasslands to kill deer. Over the winter, people chow down on the venison steaks, sausage, and burgers made from the...
View ArticleMinnesota regulators to ask Legislature to fix raw cannabis gap in...
Minnesota’s regulators will ask state lawmakers for a law to help them police the sale of raw cannabis flower, a product that was left without clear regulation in the 2023 recreational marijuana law....
View ArticleThe origins of the NAACP in Minnesota
About seven thousand African Americans lived in Minnesota during the early decades of the 1900s. The vast majority of them resided in St. Paul and Minneapolis. In recent years, a small core of...
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