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Family Academy’s ‘cradle to career’ effort under way in north Minneapolis
Sitting cross-legged on the floor Saturday at Family Academy in the Northside Achievement Zone, six moms and their children sing a song that could signal a sea change for some north Minneapolis...
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Eating-disorder patients fight double battle: their disorder, and insurance...
Katie Bird had been battling an eating disorder ever since she started taking diet pills at age 13.When she had a child of her own, she knew she couldn’t keep passing out from lack of calories; she...
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Manufacturing-sector growth should be high on candidate agendas
"This country can't be knocked out with one punch," growled actor Clint Eastwood during a Super Bowl commercial. "We get right back up again and when we do the world is going to hear the roar of our...
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Lineup set for Guthrie's Christopher Hampton Celebration
guthrietheater.orgChristopher HamptonShades of 2009’s Tony Kushner extravaganza: The Guthrie has announced the lineup for this fall’s celebration of British playwright, screenwriter and director...
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Kurt Elling: 'Any music that jazz encounters, it absorbs and transforms'
JazzTimes magazine once outlined a “royal bloodline of male jazz singers.” Here’s how it goes: from Louis Armstrong to Mel Tormé to Jon Hendricks to Mark Murphy to Kurt Elling.Elling will perform at...
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Teacher-layoffs plan puts DFLers in a jam
There are rocks, and there are hard places. And lately, huddled between them in the antechambers and backrooms of the Capitol, are some 92 DFL lawmakers.The rock: A vote in favor of a GOP-sponsored...
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Minnesota officials await final word on transportation funding
WASHINGTON — With two major transportation bills snagged by political clashes on Capitol Hill, Minnesota officials said they aren’t prepared to prognosticate about the future of federal transit...
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Minneapolis redistricting group signs off on tentative new wards
With its latest revisions complete, the Minneapolis Redistricting Group is ready to present its proposed ward maps for public input.To view the proposed map for all 13 city wards, go here (PDF). To...
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Despite map, Star Tribune land not in latest Vikings stadium plan
With the standing caveat that all Vikings stadium plans are for entertainment purposes until proven otherwise, a Star Tribune graphic of the latest Dome-area scheme grabbed my attention last night.The...
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Can gardens be therapeutic?
The March issue of Scientific American has an interesting article that poses the question, “Can gardens promote healing?The article’s author, science writer Deborah Franklin, discusses how gardens...
View ArticleTea Party hears from Walz challengers Quist and Parry in the 1st
Two Republican candidates hoping to challenge U.S. Rep. Tim Walz in the 1st District Congressional race made their pitch to Tea Party voters in Rochester Thursday.Allen Quist and Mike Parry both made...
View ArticleRepeal sought of wage cut for family care-givers
A judge has already temporarily halted a state plan to cut the wage of personal care attendants who care for their relatives, and now some legislators want to repeal the law passed last session that...
View ArticleTwo key Senate races to watch
This kind of analysis will change many times before November. And the Presidential race will probably overshadow everything. But Stu Rothenberg (of the Rothenberg Political Report) is up in pixels this...
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Competitors no more: Thisweek, Sun papers consolidate in Dakota County
Following a late-December acquisition, ECM Publishers will absorb Dakota County's Sun-Current papers into their Thisweek weeklies March 30.The renamed papers will be flagged "Sun Thisweek."The...
View ArticleCongress passes payroll tax cut plan
WASHINGTON — The Congressional fight over extending a payroll tax credit appears to be over, with lawmakers passing a compromise deal on Friday.The plan will extend a 2 percent cut in the payroll tax...
View ArticleDeputy Labor secretary to tour Hennepin Technical College
U.S. Deputy Labor Secretary Seth Harris will tour the Hennepin Technical College in Brooklyn Park Tuesday.He's scheduled to tour classes and then hold a roundtable discussion with students and...
View ArticleDFL Sen. Bakk wants Republicans to pay full cost of producing caucus pamphlet
State Sen. Tom Bakk, the Senate minority leader, says repayment by Republicans of $47 for printing costs of a campaign pamphlet distributed at precinct caucuses isn't enough.Republican leaders had...
View ArticleLawmakers plan to speed up legislative action in sex offender case
State lawmakers say they’re doing what they can to soften the blow of the pending release of sex offender Clarence Opheim from a special Minnesota treatment program.They intend to try a rarely used...
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Get close & get the shot: Quinzhee clip
Photographer Sparky Stensaas demonstrates how to use a Native American hunting trick — constructing a blind out of snow, called a Quinzhee — to get up close to nature.
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