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Live on Radio K: The Ericksons perform 'Gone Blind'
Minneapolis-based folk duo The Ericksons perform their song 'Gone Blind' live in the studios of Radio K. Video shot by Jack Buckholz, Dan Murphy, and Alex Breyfogle. Edited by Jack Buckholz. Audio...
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Nature Conservancy's chief to speak on preservation as a shrewd investment
Mark TercekThis Thursday noon Mark Tercek, national president of The Nature Conservancy, will give the Westminster Town Hall Forum's last talk of the winter series. His topic: "Beyond Tree-Hugging: Why...
View ArticleKeith Downey Q-A: New GOP chair wants to stress 'customer focus'
The chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota, Keith Downey, started his first week on the job with some retooling efforts that he says are meant to turn the party into an organization with a...
View ArticleSchool integration's health impacts are significant and lifelong, study finds
School integration in Minnesota is closely tied to individuals’ lifelong health on several levels, according to a study released Monday by a coalition of Twin Cities congregations [PDF].Children who...
View ArticleVaccine fear-mongering has muffled legitimate research on vaccine safety
It’s been 15 years since the former British physician Andrew Wakefield launched his now thoroughly discredited fear-mongering campaign against the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. His 1998 paper...
View ArticleCongressional fundraising: Franken, Bachmann lead the pack
WASHINGTON — Welcome to the first congressional fundraising round-up of the 2014 election cycle.Sure, voters are 19 months away from casting ballots in that election, and the vast majority of them...
View ArticleHumphrey School Dean Eric Schwartz to serve on religious freedom commission
President Obama has nominated Eric Schwartz, dean of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which monitors freedom...
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Minneapolis’ new One Sort recycling program beginning Phase 2
Minneapolis Public Works crews will begin Phase 2 of the city’s new recycling program next Monday, rolling out 80,000 of the blue One Sort carts.By early June, every household in the city will be on...
View ArticleFlags at half-staff in Minnesota through Saturday to honor Boston victims
Gov. Mark Dayton signed a proclamation Tuesday calling for flags on state buildings to fly at half-staff through Saturday to honor the victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon.In the...
View ArticleDayton, legislators working to woo 'mystery' Fortune 500 company with tax...
State leaders and local officials are looking to entice Baxter International, a Fortune 500 firm, to begin biopharmaceutical operations in an unused Brooklyn Park manufacturing plant by using a variety...
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Gov. Dayton needs to support his own proposal to expand the sales tax
Gov. Mark Dayton, after recommending in January an expansion of the individual sales tax to cover personal services and clothing purchases, withdrew his proposal last month. He should reverse that...
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GOP accuses DEED of 'extravagant waste'
Fire. Ready. Aim ... MPR’s Tim Pugmire reports: “Republicans in the Minnesota House are claiming that a reception state economic development officials and the Mayo Clinic are hosting this month in...
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Sarah Stonich looks below the surface of Minnesota’s 'Vacationland'
sarahstonich.comSarah StonichNorthern Minnesota is an irresistible setting for writers. Adventure tales true and imagined take place on the jagged waves of Lake Superior. The old mansions of Duluth are...
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Crystal Sugar's leadership may have won the battle, but at what cost?
This commentary is reprinted in partnership with Twin Cities Business, where it appeared as an Editor's Note column. It was written just before union workers at Crystal Sugar approved a new contract...
View ArticleGun rights in the 1780s and today
Second of three articles.The original U.S. Constitution, as drafted in 1787, made no mention of gun rights and guaranteed relatively few other rights.The Constitution actually granted the federal...
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Is Minnesota friendly to small businesses?
When owners of Baldinger Bakery decided they needed to expand and modernize their commercial baking facility located on St. Paul’s West Side, they considered multiple sites in the city, the suburbs,...
View ArticleTanzania to evict Maasai people in favor of fee-paying trophy hunters
NAIROBI, Kenya — Tens of thousands of Maasai people in northern Tanzania, under a new government plan, face eviction from their homes and a ban from the land their cattle have grazed for...
View ArticleTurkish pianist's Twitter barbs land him conviction for insulting Islam
A Turkish court this week convicted one of the country’s most famous musicians for insulting Islam, highlighting building fears over protection of freedom of speech in the country.Fazil Say, a...
View ArticleIreland takes step toward gay marriage rights
Ireland, a famously conservative country with a government dominated by the center-right, has taken a step toward legalizing same-sex marriage, following several other Catholic nations into what some...
View ArticleSyria’s Christians caught between regime and revolution
YACUBIA, Syria — As explosions rang out in the distance, some 50 believers in a small church in this rural western village bowed their heads in prayer.The ancient church has remained almost entirely...
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