Gay marriage: Opponents say passage will hurt religious liberties in Minnesota
Opponents of gay-marriage legislation in the Minnesota Legislature will hold a press conference Monday to discuss their belief that gay marriage laws tamper with religious liberties.They're bringing in...
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The case for (and against) public subsidy for roads
CC/Flickr/Purple WyrmThe gas tax collected on users of freeways at the state and federal levels would more than pay for freeways (even if some is diverted to transit and other uses).This post is...
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A winter visit to a bear den
Meet bear #5005, the target of an expedition led by Minnesota DNR research biologist Dave Garshelis aiming to take measurements and change the bear's radio collar and GPS unit. After tranquilizing the...
View ArticleDo Minnesota issue ads have much impact?
Minnesotans United ad featuring former GOP Rep. John Kriesel.About the only people who don’t see — or hear — the deluge of special-interest political commercials filling Minnesota airwaves are the...
View ArticleGOP candidate Jeff Johnson on raising taxes, stricter gun control, gay...
At an old-fashioned community center in Hamel, Hennepin County commissioner Jeff Johnson hosted an old-school rally Sunday to announce that’s he’s running as a Republican candidate for governor.The...
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Urologists no longer support routine prostate-cancer screening
Wikimedia Commons/E A SCrystallographic structure of human prostate-specific antigen (green/gold cartoon)In a surprising turnabout, the American Urological Association (AUA) has announced that it is no...
View ArticleOutspoken Vikings punter Chris Kluwe says goodbye to Minnesota
Outspoken punter Chris Kluwe has been cut by the Minnesota Vikings.The Star Tribune confirmed the cut, saying the team's newly drafted punter Jeff Locke from UCLA performed well enough this weekend to...
View ArticleThinking historically about the Dems' chances to take U.S. House in 2014
It's way too soon to start obsessing on this stuff. But I was impressed with a careful (to the degree that any attempt to forecast election results a year and a half in advance can be careful) two-part...
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St. Paul Council Member Melvin Carter III will step down to take state...
Melvin Carter IIISt. Paul City Council Member Melvin Carter III will step down from his council seat July 5 to take a job with the Minnesota Department of Education.He will become director of the...
View ArticleRep. Keith Ellison's autobiography to be published in September
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison has written an autobiography that will be published Sept. 24 by Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing."My Country, 'Tis of Thee" is the title of the book by the...
View ArticleTracking state bills takes a village: The MinnPost legislature tracker gets...
Originally posted on ProPublica.I'm an interactive news developer at MinnPost in Minneapolis. I was working in the Nerd Cube at ProPublica this past week as a P5 Resident.I spent the week working with...
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FBI thwarts 'terror plot' in Montevideo
USA Today is among those describing what the FBI broke up last Friday in otherwise beautiful Montevideo as a “terror plot.”Doug Stanglin writes:“The FBI said Monday that a ‘terror attack was disrupted’...
View ArticleFarewell to Chris Kluwe, and his last punted football as a Viking
Chris Kluwe punted a soft football from the stage of MinnRoast 2013 10 days ago. It turned out to be his last punt as a Minnesota Viking. More of the story here. The autographed ball was auctioned off...
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Minnesotan Alexander P. Anderson was the father of puffed rice cereal
Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical SocietyAlexander P. Anderson with the cannon he used to invent puffed grain for cereals, March 1933.In December 1901, botanist Alexander Pierce Anderson created...
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Sense of urgency being felt over Minnesota Orchestra plight; local bands to...
When will the Minnesota Orchestra lockout end, and how can it possibly end well? It’s said that in a successful negotiation, nobody’s happy with the result, but it’s hard to imagine a worse situation...
View ArticleJapan's yakuza gang wars
KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Visibly nervous, the chairman of a local construction company asks that we lower our voices at the lunch table, and that his name be withheld from publication.A few shady characters...
View ArticleSetback for medical marijuana as California court upholds local ban
California’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that individual cities and towns can ban the medical marijuana dispensaries that have sprouted around the state, dealing a blow to advocates of...
View ArticleWhy China is welcoming both Israel's Netanyahu and Palestinians' Abbas
Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have been in China this week, highlighting China’s desire to play a greater role in Middle East diplomacy. A...
View ArticleAnti-Putin protesters march in Moscow, but momentum weakened
Anti-Kremlin protesters gathering over the past two days on Moscow's downtown Bolotnaya Square say they're determined to keep their dwindling movement alive despite a massive state crackdown, which has...
View ArticleObama administration backs out of appeal over new contraceptive mandate
A federal appeals court in Washington has granted a request by the Obama administration to back out of an appeal involving a publisher of Bibles who is refusing for religious reasons to provide...
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