Minnesota exports at $5.1 billion in third quarter
Minnesota's exports of agricultural, mining and manufactured products were $5.1 billion in the third quarter of 2012, reports the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.That's up...
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Doom, gloom and warnings on cliffs, deficits and reform
More verbiage on cliffs, deficits and “tax reform” …Danielle Killey and Don Davis of the Forum papers say: “Senate Majority Leader-elect Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, said in discussions with people across the...
View ArticleMinneapolis committee makes 'quick work' of budget tweaking
The budget wonks arrived at the City Council Chambers Wednesday morning lugging notebooks, stacks of paper and iPads. They did not expect to see the light of day again until the next morning as they...
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Memory-filled Union Depot will be bustling again as multi-transit hub
Courtesy of Karen BruningThe Mattson family in 1942Karen Bruning kept the picture all these years.Taken on the steps of St. Paul's Union Depot in 1942, the photo shows her father standing tall in his...
View ArticleIzhar Gafni invents a cardboard bicycle that may revolutionize transportation
Izhar Gafni smiles and shakes his head in wonder when asked about the whirlwind of events that have taken place since news of his revolutionary cardboard bicycle first made international headlines a...
View ArticleBritish church in turmoil over women bishops
LONDON, UK — Outwardly, the church of St. Gabriel's in northwest London is a conventional English place of worship: an imposing Victorian-era bell tower attached to a vault-roofed chapel. Inside,...
View ArticleColombia: Peace talks resume, but local hope dampens
Negotiators for the government of Colombia and leftist rebels resumed talks in Havana, Cuba this week to try to end this country’s intractable war, but the hopes for peace for Colombians at home have...
View ArticleGov. Dayton to interview two finalists for Transportation commissioner
Two finalists for the open position of commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation will be interviewed today by Gov. Mark Dayton.The governor is looking for someone to replace Tom Sorel,...
View ArticleMerkel meets Netanyahu as Israel and Germany hit rocky patch
With German-Israeli relations unusually tense, Chancellor Angela Merkel is scrambling today in an apparent effort to assure Israel that the two are still friends as usual.When Germany abstained in last...
View ArticleIs there enough money to finance the Vikings stadium?
The new Vikings stadium is a done deal, but I won't completely believe until I see crowds pouring into it in 2016, when it's supposed to open. My biggest worry: there won't be enough money to finance...
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Irondale honored for innovative effort to prepare high-schoolers for...
moundsviewschools.orgIrondale High School has been selected for a prestigious Local Government Innovation Award by the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and...
View ArticleBachmann pays down most presidential campaign debt
WASHINGTON — Michele Bachmann paid off most of her presidential campaign's remaining debt in the closing months of her House re-election run.Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 28, Bachmann transferred more than...
View ArticleSame-sex weddings in Washington State: Breakthrough for gay marriage?
For the first time, same-sex couples now are allowed to marry in their state as the result of a popular vote legally authorizing such unions. Until now, those few states where gay marriages can occur...
View ArticleWhy chemical weapons are so dangerous
US officials told NBC news on Wednesday that they believe the Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own people.Concerns that Assad may order the use of chemical weapons has...
View ArticleEgypt's anti-Morsi protests spread beyond Cairo
Violence erupting in the capital between supporters of President Mohamed Morsi and his political opposition is being mirrored outside of Cairo, revealing the extent of divisions across the country as...
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Bloodletting — back to the future as beneficial medical treatment?
CC/Wikimedia CommonsHas bloodletting's time come again?The use of leeches has made a comeback in medicine.Could bloodletting be next?In a recent issue of New Scientist magazine, British medical...
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Minnesota budget: A solvable problem
Barataria The Minnesota state budget forecast came out with more bad news – a deficit of $1.1B for the biennium (2 year) cycle of 2014-2015. How can we have these deficits year after year?The answer...
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Minneapolis snow emergencies: The music video
With snow forecast for this weekend, Minneapolis residents would do well to reacquaint themselves with the city's rules in case of a snow emergency. YouTube user Matheatre1 has created a catchy song...
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Twins fan extraordinaire Michael Samuelson goes into hospice care
FacebookMichael SamuelsonMichael Samuelson, a giant Twins fan who's battled health emergencies for years, is heading home from the hospital Friday after cancer treatments and entering end-of-life...
View ArticlePublic Art St. Paul adds two artists-in-residence to work on city projects
The St. Paul City-Artists-in-Residence program is expanding with the addition of two more artists: Amanda Lovelee and Sarah West.They join Marcus Young in the program run by nonprofit Public Art St....
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