Humphrey School panel to look at transit study and proposed tax increase
A panel of transit experts will discuss recent studies and proposed legislation during a Thursday panel at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School.Gov.Mark Dayton is proposing a half-cent transit...
View ArticleAnd still four more Pinocchios for Bachmann
The Washington Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, apologized in advance for going after U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann two days in a row (and both for statements in the speech she made to CPAC on...
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Supporters celebrate as Gov. Dayton signs ‘MNsure’ health exchange into law
DFL lawmakers and health insurance exchange supporters celebrated “MNsure” — the exchange’s official brand — as Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday signed the measure into law.Lawmakers have now handed off...
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Shattuck case becomes focal point in bill to aid sexual abuse victims
Madeleine Baran of MPR links the Shattuck sex abuse case with legislation moving in St. Paul: “The child sexual abuse allegations involving a Shattuck-St. Mary's teacher have become a focal point for...
View ArticleGale O'Kane named interim president at Rochester Community and Technical...
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' Board of Trustees has named Gail O'Kane to be interim president of Rochester Community and Technical College.She'll replace RCTC President Don Supalla,...
View ArticleHouse defeats Progressive Caucus budget, others
WASHINGTON — As expected, three highly ideological alternatives to the House GOP budget plan failed on Wednesday afternoon, including the “Back to Work” budget from Rep. Keith Ellison’s Congressional...
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Minneapolis launching effort Thursday to help bridge the Digital Divide
I currently volunteer at — and helped start — Free Geek Twin Cities, an organization focused on computer education and responsibly recycling e-waste. Recently, I helped found Open Twin Cities, a group...
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Dayton, Senate Democrats cool to House surtax plan
Gov. Mark Dayton and Senate Democrats reacted coolly Wednesday to a House plan for a temporary surtax on high-income Minnesotans.The funding mechanism would be used to pay back about $800 million the...
View ArticleUnemployment increases in every Wisconsin county
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will doubtlessly test the presidential waters on the premise that what he has wrought next door “is working.”According to the AP:“Unemployment rates increased in all 72...
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In praise of intuitive addresses
streets.mn A few months ago, Andrew Owen wrote a post I really liked about sequences of street names that occur throughout the Twin Cities. It was surprising to see the extent of the repeating...
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‘Dual tracking’ trap: Owners lose homes while trying to modify mortgages
This articlewas produced in partnership with students at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is one in a series of occasional articles funded by a grant from...
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Garrison Keillor becomes a MinnPost donor
VelenchenkoGarrison KeillorA generous online donation from Garrison Keillor popped up in MinnPost’s email late Tuesday night. We have a number of nationally known donors, including Bill Moyers and...
View ArticleQ-A: US foreign policy lessons and failures along the Sunni-Shia divide
Reza Aslan is a professor of religious studies at Drew University and a senior adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future...
View ArticleSupreme Court rejects environmentalists' plea: why Scalia dissented
Logging companies do not need a federal permit regulating rainwater flowing off logging roads in an Oregon state forest, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.The 7-1 decision appears to have set the...
View ArticleSuspected Al Qaeda operative to be tried in Brooklyn court
Justice Department officials announced on Wednesday that they would try a suspected Al Qaeda operative in civilian court in Brooklyn rather than sending him to Guantánamo Bay for trial before a...
View ArticleTacit French support of separatists in Mali brings anger, charges of betrayal
As the war to rid Mali of Islamic rebels winds down, frustrations are building over a French military now widely seen as siding with a controversial ethnic faction that had previously cooperated with...
View ArticleDoes it matter who runs US drone program? Pentagon could supplant CIA
The growing speculation that the White House is preparing to shift its secretive drone program from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Pentagon is raising new questions about just how much more...
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General Mills tops profit estimates but predicts rising costs
General Mills, Inc., on Wednesday reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings, prompting it to increase its full-year outlook by a penny, although the company warned that increased prices...
View ArticleAll signs point to no lethal chemical weapons attack in Syria
An alleged chemical weapons attack near Aleppo yesterday, for which the Syrian regime and the opposition traded accusations of responsibility, almost certainly did not feature a lethal agent proscribed...
View ArticleIntroducing the Kerry Initiative: a secret, new Mideast peace plan
JERUSALEM — If, as many suspect, US President Barack Obama came on his first presidential visit to Israel bearing a concealed peace plan, it seems that he hid it in the most visible place possible: in...
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