From testing frequency to charter schools: Ed policy takes star turn in...
Surely you’ve read about Netflix’s decision to put an entire season of “House of Cards,” a new, original drama, online for streaming? It’s a political potboiler starring Kevin Spacey as a craven...
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The appendix has a healthful purpose, evolutionary evidence suggests
Wikimedia CommonsLong denigrated as "vestigial," the appendix may be a storehouse for beneficial microbes that help fight off infections in the gut.Scientists have uncovered yet more evidence that the...
View ArticleHoward Dean says let the sequester happen
As the clock ticks down toward the dreaded "sequester," former Gov., former presidential candidate, etc. etc. Howard Dean says "let it happen."Speaking to the Huffington Post last week:"We should let...
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Tax experts, economists say Dayton’s business sales tax is a bad idea
Most tax policy experts would endorse — at least in concept — DFL Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposal to expand Minnesota’s sales tax to clothing and consumer services, and lower the tax rate from 6.875...
View ArticleDespite summer flooding, Duluth tourism's take was up for the year
Seals swimming in the streets and buckled roads were the images coming from Duluth in June, when heavy rain caused major flooding in parts of the city.And even though the initial reaction was a spate...
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Regulating cremations' mercury emissions proves as hard as pulling teeth
A high school class touring the Capitol made a recent “civics stop” to watch government at work at a committee meeting involving the Health department.Folks weren’t paying attention that closely...
View ArticleState Senate committee approves another $6K for Brodkorb legal bill
The state Senate Rules Committee agreed Monday to pay another $5,956 to the Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren law firm for work on the Michael Brodkorb case.Brodkorb, the former state Senate aide,...
View ArticleTwo newest state House members to be sworn in
Six weeks into the legislative session, the two newest members of the Minnesota House will be sworn in Tuesday, DFLer Clark Johnson of North Mankato will be sworn in at 9:30 a.m. in the House chambers,...
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AG Swanson targets 'aggressive recruiting' by for-profit colleges
In the polite vernacular, it’s called “aggressive recruiting.” The Strib’s Mark Brunswick reports on AG Lori Swanson’s latest target … for-profit colleges: “Although the state's investigation is a...
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How is Minnesota’s ‘middle class’ doing?
If you consider yourself part of the middle class, you could be forgiven for not standing at the ready after President Obama called for you to be reignited.“It is our generation’s task, then, to...
View ArticleMN GOP, stifled by new rules, offers 159 amendments
LeftMN Last week, there was a nine hour floor debate in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Obviously, there’s a lot to talk about. Were they discussing the health exchange bill that needs to be...
View ArticleU.S. history and the power of re-education
The following is an opinion piece by Daniel Sellers, Executive Director of MinnCAN. Pollen aims to promote open discussion among our members as a platform where all perspectives are welcome.We’ve had...
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February 21, 1921: School safety patrol debuts in St. Paul
The school safety patrol was first implemented in 1921, one of the earliest in the country. Parents, principals, and politicians in St. Paul were at the forefront of its development. At that time,...
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Shea: The restaurant gurus
Photo By Sara RubinsteinDavid Shea & Tanya Spaulding under the retractable roof at Union, their latest restaurant design.Walk four blocks of Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and you’ll come...
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Aiken's Lite Brite mural lights up; tickets on sale for Penumbra's 'Spunk'
Thanks to the Forever Saint Paul Challenge, Union Depot, artist Ta-coumba T. Aiken, and hundreds of volunteers, Minnesota now holds a new Guinness Record for Largest Lite Brite Picture. Aiken designed...
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Well-being increases with age, but levels vary among generations, study finds
Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration"The level of well-being of cohorts... who lived through the Great Depression, was substantially lower than the level of well-being of cohorts who grew up...
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Valeria Silva lauded for St. Paul's approach to English-language learners
MinnPost/Craig LassigValeria SilvaSometimes a homegirl goes along quietly doing her thing over the course of years without it ever really coming to the attention of the hometown establishment that...
View ArticleColombia: Violence flares in lead up to new round of FARC peace talks
Colombian government and rebel negotiators begin a new round of peace talks today, even as hostilities between the two sides intensify and test the patience of war-weary Colombians. But the fact that...
View ArticleEurope hangs on Italian elections
ROME, Italy — Rome is awash in political posters.They're plastered on buses, billboards, even the Segways that bear footsore tourists through ancient cobbled streets, with messages from a seemingly...
View ArticleArt of the state: China's Party-run auction house is booming
Editor's note: This is part of GlobalPost's two-part series about China's Poly Group.TAIPEI, Taiwan — In Huang Hung-jen’s plush office in old-money West Taipei, there hangs a 6-foot oil painting of US...
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