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Minneapolis mayoral candidate Mark Andrew Q-A: 'I have the skill set and the...
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of interviews with six candidates for Minneapolis mayor. Only those who have filed with the Hennepin County Elections Department to form a campaign finance...
View ArticleRead medical research findings skeptically, doctor advises
Writing online for the Atlantic magazine, Dr. Richard Gunderman, a radiologist and professor of medical education and medical ethics at Indiana University, explains why we should always read reports on...
View ArticleHopkins' Blake Road shows the changing face of Twin Cities suburbs
It’s no secret that America’s suburbs are changing. Long gone are the days of “The Brady Bunch” and “E.T.,” when everyone living there was white, middle-class and spoke only English.Fifty six percent...
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Twins go for short-term strategy with Aaron Hicks as starting center fielder
Aaron HicksMaking official what was pretty clearly the plan as soon as they followed up the Denard Spantrade by also tradingBen Revere, the Twins named Aaron Hicksthe Opening Day center fielder.Perhaps...
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Will railroad company and government dispute derail Southwest LRT?
The Twin Cities has a long and rich history as a railroad center. For roughly a century it was home base to railroads as diverse as James J. Hill’s vast Great Northern and Northern Pacific systems and...
View ArticleManuel Cervantes, former St. Paul city attorney, to join Workers' Comp...
Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed Manuel Cervantes to the state's Worker's Compensation Court of Appeals.Cervantes, who was St. Paul city attorney from 2002 to 2006, is currently a state administrative...
View ArticleCo-author of book on Gov. Scott Walker to speak in St. Paul
The co-author of "More Than They Bargained For," a book about the turbulent early months of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's term, will be in St. Paul on Thursday.Patrick Marley, a reporter for the...
View ArticleEthics office investigating potential Bachmann campaign violations
WASHINGTON — A congressional ethics panel is investigating Rep. Michele Bachmann and former presidential campaign staffers for potential campaign finance violations, according to her lawyer and former...
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Tubby Smith out as U of M basketball coach
Tubby Smith is out at the U of M, although as of shortly after 1 p.m., the basketball coach was saying that no one had told him. Mila Koumpilova and Charley Walters at the PiPress report: The...
View ArticleSt. Paul 'good news' in Mayor Coleman's State of the City is mostly 'old news'
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman's offered his eighth State of the City speech Monday, but this year, most of his good news was "old news": light rail and Saints ballpark and the Penfield/Lunds,...
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A refreshing U of M change: Tubby Smith’s firing had to happen
REUTERS/Allen FredricksonSmith did not fail here; he just didn’t succeed enough.La Salle University is a modest-sized Catholic school in northwestern Philadelphia. If you filled out an NCAA Tournament...
View ArticleIn Russia, no love lost over late 'evil genius' Boris Berezovsky
Whatever British police may finally conclude about the manner of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky's death Saturday at his home near London, most Russians say that they won't be grieving over him....
View ArticleNorth Korea's public relations man is a Spaniard with a tough job
While news reports, defectors, and human rights organizations are in close agreement on the harsh evidence of poverty, famine, and torture in secretive North Korea, Alejandro Cao de Benós paints a very...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Upheaval in the 'phantom state'
NAIROBI, Kenya — President Francois Bozize’s decade-long mismanagement of the Central African Republic (CAR) came to an abrupt end on Sunday with him fleeing the country as rebels marched into the...
View ArticleIs Qatar abandoning Egypt?
CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s economy is edging closer to collapse, and now there is one less place the government here can turn to for much-needed financial aid.After promising $5 billion in soft loans and...
View ArticleWith plan to save Cyprus, EU bureaucrats prescribe long-term pain
Local and European leaders are expressing cautious optimism after having reached a last-minute deal on a bailout agreement for Cyprus. But independent analysts worry about the long-term economic...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court to take up Michigan affirmative action case
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine whether a 2006 ballot initiative banning affirmative action at public universities in Michigan violates the equal protection rights of...
View ArticleJohn Kerry urges Iraq to inspect Iranian overflights to Syria
Secretary of State John Kerry’s surprise stop in Baghdad Sunday made him the highest-ranking Obama administration official to mark the 10th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq where it took...
View ArticleTransition Towns show benefits of planning for energy 'descent'
Our high standard of living no longer equates to as high a quality of life as we would like. Student debt, fewer long-term career paths, foreclosures, unaffordable health care, environmental...
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Gov. Dayton 'not aware of particulars' of e-pulltab estimates
The Sgt. Schultz excuse is getting a workout. Baird Helgeson’s Strib story says:“Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration said Monday that state gambling regulators should have been clearer from the outset...
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