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Electronic pull-tab revenue is nowhere near projections
The word “lagging” seems to be umbilically linked to every discussion of electronic pull-tab revenues. Tim Nelson at MPR says: “Revenues since pull-tabs started on Sept. 18 have fallen far short of the...
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Wolves in swoon: inept and exhausted
If you watched more than a half of any of the four double-digit losses on the Minnesota Timberwolves’ horrendous road trip over the past six days, you saw a team bone-tired of being insufficient — a...
View ArticleUniversity of Minnesota to hold annual MLK musical tribute Sunday
The University of Minnesota will hold its 32nd annual tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the University's West Bank campus.MLK Day is celebrated on Jan....
View ArticleFlu closes Northrop school; child, 3, left on freezing Fond du Lac bus for hours
St. James Lutheran School in Northrop, Minn., canceled classes Monday and today after 27 percent of students were absent Friday during an outbreak of influenza, said school board member Laurie Quinn....
View ArticleState Patrol to target Nisswa highway during ice fishing contest
State Patrol officials say they'll have extra officers on DWI enforcement duty Sunday for the $150,000 ice fishing contest on Gull Lake.They're paying overtime to have more officers in the area for the...
View ArticleNolan's first legislative foray: Ending the war in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan co-sponsored his first bill of the new Congress on Tuesday, looking to bring an end the decade-old war in Afghanistan.Nolan sponsored the "Responsible End to the War...
View ArticleNobel laureate urges new direction for cancer research — and warns against...
I’ve just gotten around to reading molecular biologist and Nobel laureate James D. Watson’s scathing criticism of current cancer research, which was published last week in the journal Open Biology.The...
View ArticleRomanian orphans face challenges decades after adoption
Editor's note: Following the Christmas Day execution of Romania’s long-time communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, the outside world first saw images of tens of thousands of abandoned children...
View ArticleRep. Sander Levin: Debt ceiling standoff may make tax reform harder
The lingering impasse from December’s "fiscal cliff" threatens to swamp Democrats' efforts to achieve priorities such as broad changes to gun regulations and a drive for comprehensive immigration...
View ArticleSupreme Court hears oral arguments in Florida property rights case
The US Supreme Court grappled on Tuesday with a case testing whether officials in Florida went too far when they demanded that a landowner seeking a development permit set aside 11 of his 14.9 acres...
View Article'Red October' malware found snooping on Russian state networks
When computer security experts recently discovered the hugely sophisticated and obviously state-sponsored cyberspy wormsStuxnet and Flame, many wondered out loud whether organized criminals might soon...
View ArticleAfghanistan transition: One city is a ticking time bomb
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — The evening prayer had just finished when an imam at a mosque in this city in eastern Afghanistan turned his attention to politics.Over a loudspeaker, he told worshippers that...
View ArticleNew York passes tough gun laws: 'draconian' or trailblazing?
One month after the tragic shootings of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn., the state of New York has passed the most comprehensive gun legislation in the nation and also one of the...
View ArticleAs IAEA arrives in Tehran, Iran braces for full force of US sanctions
As Iranian officials prepare for a new round of negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), US sanctions set to hit Tehran in February have Iranians worried that billions of...
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'38 Nooses' looks at the U.S.-Dakota War from a national perspective
As we approached the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, a flurry of books about the topic were published. I’ve written about many of them — so many that perhaps it’s time to take a break...
View ArticleWashington Post/ABC poll: Don't tie the debt limit to spending cuts
I’m not sure how much I trust a novel poll question with this many moving parts, but the latest Washington Post/ABC Poll attempts to ask the public how it feels about the Republican strategy of...
View ArticleMetro, rural officials squabble over Legacy money for parks
That Minnesotans voted to impose on themselves an extra sales tax to benefit clean water, the environment and the arts is something of a miracle. That we did it in 2008, when the economy was tipping...
View ArticleWhy DFL leaders need to work with business in the 2013 session
Minnesota legislators are awaiting Gov. Mark Dayton's budget inside the state Capitol, just a few blocks from the Macy's going-out-of-business sale in downtown St. Paul.Macy's pulled the plug on its...
View ArticleInternational Falls mayor named to Outdoor Heritage Council
Bob Anderson, the mayor of International Falls, has been confirmed as the newest member of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council.Anderson — retired after a 50-year career in the forest products...
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Minneapolis drivers and bicyclists share the roads — and blame for crashes
Drivers and bicycle riders in Minneapolis share the blame, almost equally, for crashes during the 10 years ending in 2010, according to a study presented Tuesday to the City Council.Most of the...
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