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Cemeteries in winter: St. Mary's and Temple Israel
MinnPost illustration by Andy SturdevantWalking in a cemetery at the end of winter is a novel experience.Within about a 20-minute walk of each other in the quiet neighborhoods of south Minneapolis,...
View Article'Can Michele Bachmann be beaten?'
Chris Cillizza, who runs the poilitical blog "The Fix" for the Washington Post, put up a piece this morning asking, but not answering, the question: "Can Michele Bachmann be Beaten?"He gives it the...
View ArticleFranken fires up re-election machine, hiring Matt Burgess as campaign manager
Sen. Al Franken has hired Matt Burgess to run his 2014 re-election campaign.Franken, who barely beat incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008 after a contentious recount, doesn't have an announced...
View ArticleMayor Rybak, Chaska Police Chief Knight call for gun background checks
Mayors Against Illegal Guns plans a string of events around the country Thursday to draw attention to their demands that Congress take action to reduce gun violence.The Minnesota portion of the...
View ArticleMnDOT announces $1.1 billion road construction schedule
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has outlined $1.1 billion in road construction projects scheduled for this year around the state.They include 87 projects in the Twin Cities and 193 projects...
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U of M law professor says justices appear willing to strike down DOMA
Dale Carpenter, professor of civil rights and civil liberties law at the University of Minnesota law school, attended today’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on arguments to overturn the federal Defense of...
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MinnRoast: 555 tickets sold to date
Have we mentioned that the MinnRoast attendance goal this year is having every seat at the Pantages Theatre not just sold but physically occupied?With 30 days to go, 555 seats out of the 990 available...
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New political issue: Representation by telecommuting?
Another inevitability for all concerned …“Dan Kraker of MPR reports:“The use of video conferencing software by a councilmember to attend meetings raises questions about how elected officials should...
View ArticleRochester to be the next stop for Gov. Dayton's budget tour
Gov. Mark Dayton will take his budget road show to Rochester next week.He has already had meetings in Duluth, Moorhead and St. Cloud, as he tries to persaude Minnesotans to support his budget plan,...
View ArticlePetrocaribe: Paying beans for Venezuelan oil
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — Each day, the oil refinery here pumps out the gas and petroleum products that bolster this Caribbean country's tourism-based economy — thanks to Venezuela.That South...
View ArticleIn tiny Rwanda, staggering health gains set new standard in Africa
When Agnes Binagwaho began her career as a doctor in the slums of Kigali, Rwanda, in 1996, she worked in one of the most precarious health environments in the world. The rickety public hospitals that...
View ArticleMyanmar’s '969' crusade breeds anti-Muslim malice
YANGON and MANDALAY, Myanmar — To untrained eyes, the symbol that has suddenly appeared on shop windows across Myanmar appears benign: a patchwork of pastel hues overlaid with the numerals 969.But to...
View ArticleBritish papers rebel as UK press regulation moves closer to reality
It is meant to be the solution to the British media scandal of the decade.But while Britain's plan for its first legal regulation of the press in the country in 318 years has been heralded by the...
View ArticleRights groups slam Egyptian draft laws
CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt may hold parliamentary elections in October, the state news agency MENA reported President Mohamed Morsi as saying on Wednesday. Elections were initially set for April for a new...
View ArticleRussia backs Syria, firmly, as UN prepares chemical weapons probe
Russia is laying to rest any thoughts that its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might be wavering: It is championing the Assad regime’s position in a United Nations probe of alleged...
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Why the University of Minnesota psychiatric research scandal must be...
Carl ElliottThree former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine have called for an investigation. So has the scholar who uncovered the Guatemala syphilis studies. The former Health and...
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Tax-by-miles-driven experiment flops
Interesting idea, though … Pat Doyle of the Strib says: “The idea intrigued Kathy Gillen: Pay highway taxes by the mile instead of the gallon. So the Otsego, Minn., resident signed on for one of the...
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Little general store on the prairie
Minnesota Prairie Roots I LOVE BERNADETTE THOOFT’S infectious laugh and outgoing personality. And I love what this mother of seven is doing for my hometown.Photo by Audrey Kletscher HelblingThe Store:...
View ArticleGay marriage's effects on students, schools aired in court arguments
I don’t know whether you noticed, but Learning Curve has been on vacation for a week. Would you settle for a roundup of news items concerning ripples being felt in schools from this week's same-sex...
View ArticlePolitico: Republican operatives secretly hope justices legalize same-sex...
Writing for Politico, Alexander Burns says that, at least among the political operative class, Republicans hope the U.S. Supreme Court will make a broad ruling equalizing marriage rights for gay and...
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