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Minorities in Twin Cities more likely to pay more for mortgages
This article was supervised by MinnPost journalist Sharon Schmickle, produced in partnership with students at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and is one in a...
View ArticleHagel goes to Israel bearing gifts of radar and Ospreys
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel brought presents for his first trip to Israel, where his nomination earlier this year stirred concern that he would be too soft on Iran and leave Israel vulnerable...
View ArticleUS budget negotiations threaten global health spending
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of a GlobalPost Special Report titled “The Seven Million,” about the many challenges faced worldwide in an effort to reduce child mortality. The project is supported...
View ArticleFrance approves gay marriage after surprisingly violent debate
France became the 14th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage today, fulfilling the campaign pledge of Socialist President François Hollande.But if Mr. Hollande thought passage of the law...
View ArticleGirding for a federal budget battle royale, parties wrangle over rules
In Washington, sometimes you even have to negotiate guidelines for negotiations.The House and Senate are creeping toward the summer’s battle royale over debt, deficits, the 2014 fiscal year federal...
View ArticleBoston bomb suspect called 'lucid,' but how much does he know?
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is described as alert and “mentally competent,” but he also now has a lawyer.As of Monday, when a US judge visited Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his...
View ArticleATF nominee B. Todd Jones gets more bad news
WASHINGTON — It was always going to be hard for President Obama to get the U.S. Senate to confirm his nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Minnesota federal prosecutor B. Todd...
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Murals and signage give Lake & 5th's automotive zone a unique vibe
MinnPost illustration by Andy SturdevantThe Lake Street automotive world brings with it a visual language all of its own.Poet and top-fiver on any list of noted Minneapolis literary figures John...
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Food-policing tactics common among parents of teens, U of M study finds
CC/Flickr/Dean ShareskiThe best approach is to model healthy eating habits for children.Parents often feel it’s their job to insist their child eat all the food on his or her dinner plate, even if the...
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Minnesota Senate nearly grinds to a halt over weird I-35E speed-limit debate
Creative Commons/Doug KerrWith the help of the federal courts, I-35E finally was connected from the southern split off I-35 to I-94 and, indirectly to the portion of I-35E that goes north out of St....
View ArticleAre caucuses stupid?
LeftMN TC Daily Planet’s Sheila Regan thinks so:I have to admit that until this past week, I hadn’t been to a caucus since 1996. I don’t remember much about that caucus, except that it was long and...
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Catholic Church favors anti-bullying efforts — just not so-called 'Safe and...
An April 22 MinnPost article, "Catholic Church ramps up opposition to Minnesota anti-bullying bill," contained critical errors and omissions about the local Catholic Church’s opposition to so-called...
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Education issues still contentious; legislators looking ahead to conference
Most weeks of the legislative session, policy advocates and lobbyists almost seem capable of divination. The best can predict, in astonishing detail, what upcoming twists a bill will face, who will...
View ArticleRepublican businessman Scott Honour launches run for governor
Scott Honour, a Republican businessman from Wayzata, has launched a campaign for governor with a new website.MinnPost's Cyndy Brucato last month mentioned Honour as a possible GOP challenger, as the...
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Startling Minnesota numbers: black/white homicides/suicides
These are some startling numbers. Brandt Williams at MPR writes: “There are dramatic differences in the role that guns play in the deaths of white and black Minnesotans. African-Americans are much more...
View ArticleDemocrat Sona Mehring will not challenge John Kline
WASHINGTON — Just three weeks after announcing she would challenge 2nd District Republican Rep. John Kline in 2014, DFLer Sona Mehring said Wednesday that she is dropping out of the race.Mehring, a...
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Legislators should rethink costly renewable-energy mandates
CC/Flickr/bristley"Subsidizing solar panels in Germany was about as useful as growing pineapples in Alaska."Little noticed in legislative debates over taxes and budgets, House File 956, an omnibus...
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Orono investment banker Scott Honour to challenge Dayton
Aaaand we have an opponent ... The AP story says: “Minnesota’s slow-starting 2014 governor’s race got its first serious Republican contender on Wednesday when a successful businessman and political...
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Joyce Foundation makes a grant to MinnPost and the Wisconsin Center for...
MinnPost and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism are receiving a major grant from The Joyce Foundation to support reporting on key issues in their neighboring states.The $100,000 grant,...
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Don Shelby takes on his biggest role in VocalEssence's ‘Paul Bunyan’
Photo by Mike KrivitDon Shelby as the voice of Paul Bunyan and folksinger Pop WagnerSince pushing back from the anchor’s desk at WCCO in 2010, Don Shelby has gone to college, built a house, grown his...
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