Mayors' report on mass shootings is grim but essential reading
Nationally, there have been 43 mass shootings in 25 states over the past four years (January 2009 – January 2013), which tragically equates to almost one per month, according to a report released...
View ArticleFour vie to replace Rochester city council president, who'd died before...
Four candidates now plan to run for Rochester City Council president in a special election Mar. 19.In November, city voters re-elected Dennis Hanson to the position, even though Hanson had died months...
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City of Lakes Loppet 2013: Advanced men's ice-cycle loppet
YouTube user Noren5609 stood out with camera in temperatures that never got too far into the teens to bring you highlights of Penn Cycle's 2013 Ice-cycle Loppet, part of the 2013 City of Lakes Loppet...
View ArticleLatest attempt to manipulate Electoral College vote isn’t new
The idea that the Republican-controlled state governments of six states, led by Virginia, might rejigger the way those states award Electoral College votes (in what would be a blatant attempt to...
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Milford Mine disaster, 1924: 'Save your breath and start climbing!'
With time, disasters become chillingly simple: a set of numbers, a series of events, a count of the dead.On Feb. 5, 1924, boggy water from Foley Lake flooded the Milford Mine about two miles north of...
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Vänskä, musicians reunited for Sibelius concert; 'Venus in Fur' launches...
The musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra hadn’t played under Osmo Vänskä’s baton since July, and many of their members were elsewhere, but the mood was electric and the music sublime at Friday’s Grammy...
View ArticleCybersecurity: how preemptive cyberwar is entering the nation's arsenal
A formal, three-year legal and policy review of US cyberweapons that concluded last fall has effectively cleared their use alongside other weapons systems in the US arsenal, a stamp of approval that...
View ArticlePakistan's 'Terror Tax'
KARACHI, Pakistan — In November, armed men from the Pakistani Taliban showed up in front of Ali Hussain’s factory, asking for money in exchange for protection.But Hussain didn’t have the $100,000 these...
View ArticleNew hurdle for nuclear talks: Iran's presidential politics
After an eight-month hiatus of high-level nuclear diplomacy, Iran and world powers are poised to resume talks later this month in Kazakhstan.One hurdle has been overcome: The runup to the...
View ArticleGov. Cuomo's grand plan post-Sandy: give some of New York back to nature
Following through on his post-Sandy assessment that protecting New York state from coastal flooding would be a “massive undertaking,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is proposing the return of some flood-prone...
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Mary Logue's new mystery throws the book at crime
Things are very quiet in the Logue-Hautman house. In one room, Mary Logue is working on her mystery novels; in another room, Pete Hautman is writing young-adult fiction.“We don’t talk to each other...
View ArticleDayton’s budget: Tom Bakk seeks out business leaders’ views
For lobbyists, access to Minnesota legislators -- in the State Office Building, outside the House and Senate chambers or just over coffee -- has never been more critical, given the potential impact of...
View ArticleTV viewing is associated with lower sperm counts, Harvard study finds
Watching TV for 20 or more hours a week is associated with lower sperm concentrations in young men, according to a study published Monday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.The study, which was...
View ArticleSome Republicans want to see Dayton-Emmer rematch in 2014
An effort to draft Tom Emmer to run again against Gov. Mark Dayton has been registered with regulators, the AP reports.No response yet about the possible rematch from Emmer, who lost the 2010 election...
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Ice fishing: Answering the question, 'why?'
Old and In the Way Whenever the subject of ice fishing comes up and I’m talking with people who don’t ice fish inevitably the questions come…Most common, one word “why?”There’s also “What’s the...
View ArticleDayton's D.C. trip to seek MinnesotaCare money canceled
Gov. Mark Dayton's office announced a last-minute cancellation of Tuesday's planned trip to Washington D.C., where he and state Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson were going to ask federal...
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Gun bills in the 2013 Legislature
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Gun-control advocates, opponents ready for legislators''Gun Week'
It’s Gun Week at the state Capitol, as a key House committee begins three days of intense hearings on ways to reduce gun violence.Gun-control legislation of all varieties — from an assault weapons ban...
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When a monster typhoon isn't news; more ink for The Donald than for fracking
Just happened to notice over the weekend that the strongest cyclone of the season so far for the southern Indian Ocean — and the largest in nearly a year — had been brushing Madagascar with sustained...
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Rep. Keith Ellison reacts to President Obama's Minnesota gun control visit
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL–Minneapolis, went on Current media on Monday night in the wake of President Obama's visit to Minnesota, where he gave a speech advocating "common sense" measures to curb...
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