Pope's first mass: 'protect each person, especially the poorest'
With traditional pomp and ceremony, the Catholic Church celebrated the official start of the papacy of Pope Francis on Tuesday, with a giant open-air mass in St. Peter’s Square.Pope Francis, who was...
View ArticleGood news about Canada's native groups for a change
MONTREAL, Canada — When Prince Harry recently bought a pair of fur boots for his latest squeeze, tabloids and gossip sites joked that he’d wanted to make sure she didn’t get “cold feet.”In literal...
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U of M English prof Maria Sanford was one of first female professors in U.S.
Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical SocietyProfessor Maria Louise Sanford, 1918.One of the first female professors in the United States, Maria Sanford was an English professor at the University of...
View ArticleAll sides claim victory with new UK press regulator — except the press
One of the most turbulent eras of British newspaper history ended in a backroom political deal today with all three main parties claiming victory over new regulation.In a speech to Parliament, Prime...
View ArticleMinnesota senators''No' votes on Iraq War — and other 10th anniversary thoughts
With apologies, I discovered that my two Iraq War pieces last week did not exhaust the facts, ideas and arguments worth raising on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the war (the actual 10-year...
View ArticleGov. Dayton congratulates Concordia College volleyball team for 6th straight...
Gov. Mark Dayton is hosting a breakfast buffet this morning for the Concordia College (St. Paul) volleyball team, which made history in December by winning their sixth straight Division II...
View ArticleHow German fears of underwriting Russian oligarchs pushed Cyprus to crisis
Could the tiny economy of Mediterranean Cyprus, in urgent need of a bailout package, pull the whole eurozone back into crisis?The answer, it became clear in the past few days, is yes. And the...
View ArticleSheriff vows not to enforce Colorado's tough new gun-control bills
Colorado is on track to become the first state after New York to significantly increase gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, with several bills passed by the legislature now...
View ArticleSyria may be using ballistic missiles and cluster bombs in civilian areas
ALEPPO, Syria — If you are in the impact zone, residents here say, you don’t hear anything.“You see the doors and the windows blow out and then they explode back in on you. You can’t even see your own...
View ArticleFirst-ever cyberattack on US election points to broad vulnerabilities
Over a 2-1/2 week period last July, more than 2,500 online “phantom requests” for absentee ballots were made to Miami-Dade County election headquarters, marking the first known cyberattack on a US...
View ArticleBachmann's attack on lavish Obama lifestyle gets four Pinocchios
Speaking at the CPAC conference on Saturday, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann came up with a relatively new line of attack on Pres. Obama. The Obamas are living too high in the White House on your tax...
View ArticleUniversity of Minnesota grad Rebecca Blank gets UW-Madison chancellor post
Last week, we mentioned that Rebecca Blank — a University of Minnesota graduate who is now acting secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department — was a finalist for the chancellor post at the University of...
View ArticleZippers are leading cause of penile injuries, ER data shows
Maybe men should consider returning to the pre-1913 days of the button fly.For, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), trouser zippers are the...
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Northrop school sale portends new era of MPS-charter collaboration
In 2007 if you were a hopeful charter operator and you wanted to open a school, the one place you couldn’t look for space was Minneapolis Public Schools’ list of shuttered buildings.Near the bottom of...
View ArticleGene-splicing and cloning may restore lost species, but not their lost worlds
Suddenly, "de-extinction" is all the rage."Reviving Extinct Species" is the cover subject in the current National Geographic, which tells us that restoring creatures like the woolly mammoth to the...
View ArticleTwo meetings on St. Paul's Lowertown ballpark design this week
St. Paul citizens interested in the design and construction of the new St. Paul Saints ballpark in Lowertown have two chances this week to get more information and make their voices heard.The city...
View ArticleMinnesota health exchange a step nearer, but massive work and tight deadlines...
Minnesota’s health insurance exchange is a major step closer on the long path to becoming a reality.The state-based exchange — the linchpin of federal health reform — is on its way to Gov. Mark Dayton...
View ArticleFarewell event for GOP Chair Pat Shortridge is part tribute, part party critique
It was less of a roast than a serving of humble pie Monday night, when guests gathered to honor Pat Shortridge, outgoing chair of the Minnesota Republican Party.There was plenty of agreement, too, with...
View ArticleA voting statistic to terrify Republicans (even more than the Hispanic stuff)
I'm plenty weary of slicing and dicing the statistics of the last election but one from today's post on Nate Cohn's "electionate" blog for The New Republic nonetheless grabbed my attention:"Romney...
View ArticleMinnesota exports set another quarterly record: $5.13 billion
Minnesota exports of agricultural, mining and manufactured products reached $5.13 billion in 2012's last quarter, the ninth consecutive quarterly record.Today's report from the Minnesota Department of...
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