MN Blog Cabin Roundup: 4/13
Road rage: The intersection between anger and acting outfrom Girl Meets Geek by Kate Madonna Hindes“It was instantaneous. One moment, I was bemused by the fact that Webkinz lined the front dash of a...
View ArticleHow triviality trumps substance
The folks at NBC's political unit, who put out an every morning compendium of political news and gossip called "First Read" went profound this a.m., in the sense that sometimes it's profound to state...
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Connecting two continents with T-shirts
What do you get when you combine African cotton farmers and textile workers with at-risk Minneapolis teens? A fair-trade T-shirt company called Forgotten. Founder Steve Conrad founded Forgotten in...
View ArticleAfter leaked report, Brodkorb lawyer says he's broadening lawsuit
Let me see if I have this right. A-hard knuckle, anti-big government, anti-nanny state, pro-personal accountability, pro-bootstrapping Tea Party-style conservative strategist … has applied for...
View ArticleMeet the people behind Turkey's 'miracle'
ISTANBUL, Turkey — When illiterate carpenter Mustafa Boydak Sr., from a village outside of the central Anatolian city of Kayseri, opened his first carpentry workshop in 1957, it was just a way to make...
View ArticleIn increasingly urban France, farmers still wield political clout
When President Nicolas Sarkozy praised farming as "a high-tech sector indispensable to the economy" at a meeting of France's biggest farmers union last month, cereal producer Etienne Gangneron felt...
View ArticlePeru: On the hunt for Shining Path rebels
LIMA, Peru — Soldiers and anti-terrorist police are continuing to comb densely forested Andean foothills in the hunt for the Shining Path rebels who kidnapped 36 gas workers last week.The hostages were...
View ArticleMa Jun helps Chinese find out who's polluting and shame corporations into...
In a country so vast and so foully polluted as China, it is hard to know where to start cleaning it up.Ma Jun decided to start with people: properly informed people. And that strategy has turned his...
View Article'Buffett rule' fails, but it will be back
The so-called Buffett rule’s first trip into the US Senate was a well-anticipated bust.But, Democrats and Republicans say, it may yet live on as the election season heats up, and both sides appear...
View ArticlePakistan moves to reopen NATO supply lines, but US ties remain frayed
Pakistan looks set to reopen two key NATO supply routes to Afghanistan, following the unanimous approval last week of a proposal in Parliament for new bilateral relations with the United States.The...
View ArticleBuffett Rule dies in Senate, but Minnesota Democrats say issue lives on
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans defeated President Obama’s high-income tax plan, the Buffett Rule, on Monday night, blocking it on a procedural vote. In all, 50 Democrats, including Minnesotans...
View Article'Duel' over statins' use in healthy people moves to new venue
They’re at it again — debating whether otherwise healthy middle-aged men with elevated cholesterol should begin taking statins (Crestor, Lipitor, Zocor) to lower their risk of heart attack and...
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Vikings stadium bill will need a ‘miracle’ after committee defeat, sponsor says
After the final vote had been taken, after most of the reporters and spectators and testifiers had left the room, Rep. Morrie Lanning’s hands still were quivering.For seven years, Lanning, a Republican...
View ArticleNoya Woodrich named Greater Minnneapolis Council of Churches president
Noya Woodrich will be the new president of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches.She will be the first woman and first American Indian to run the 107-year-old organization.Woodrich has been the...
View ArticleThe Stretch Run: looking at education bills in the Legislature
Brick City Blog The Minnesota State Legislature returned today from Easter break. Legislative leaders have promised a quick to end to a session that has thus far produced very little legislation —...
View ArticleHouse passes bill inspired by Burnsville schools' secret buyout
Remember the secret payout to the Burnsville Schools human resources director: $250,000 if Tania Chance would quietly leave her job, just seven months after signing a contract?Legislators remember, and...
View ArticleEvery day is tax day somewhere in Minnesota
Move over Tea Partiers and OccupyWallStreeters. Everyone wants to get in on the act on Tax Day. Restaurants are pitching free fries and other stress-easing foods. Politicians, as usual, will have...
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Taxes in Minnesota: Where do they come from?
In Minnesota, 69 cents of every dollar state and local governments collect next year will come from sources other than the individual income tax, according to estimates in the Department of Revenue’s...
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The Spoonbridge and Cherry gondolier
Rachel Knoll is the Spoonbridge and Cherry gondolier:Oldenburg’s Spoonbridge and Cherry, a massive sculpture in the shape of a large spoon with a cherry positioned at the end of the spoon, is the most...
View ArticleUptown community task force tackles patio noise problems
Sometimes it helps to carry a big stick.It was just a little more than a year ago that Minneapolis City Council Member Meg Tuthill decided the noise from the outdoor dining and drinking patios in...
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