Tea Party rally in Brainerd draws more than 50 'unhappy' people
The Brainerd area annual Tea Party rally had been scheduled for April 16, to be near the tax deadline, but a late snowstorm caused postponement until Monday.So that's when more than 50 folks turned out...
View ArticleIt's not all Capitol bickering as governor signs Legacy bill
While the inter-party bickering over taxes, bonding and a stadium at the Capitol gives the impression of runaway chaos, there has been agreement on dozens of bills, including a Legacy Act bill, calls...
View ArticleGiveMN hits $50 million mark in funneling online donations to nonprofits
GiveMN.org, the online site that processes donations for nonprofits, said it has reached the $50 million mark in gifts.The donations came from 154,000 individuals and were directed to 6,200 nonprofits,...
View ArticleObama plans June 1 trip to Minnesota
President Obama will come to the Twin Cities on June 1, according to several reports.The location is to yet to be determined, says the Star Tribune.The DFL holds its state convention the next day in...
View ArticleCapitol shenanigans remind Channel 5 of 1857 Rolette disappearing act
We may think this legislative session is crazy: up and down emotions on a stadium that's hare-brained one minute, workable the next and off the table the next morning. Taxes and bonding bills, too, are...
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Unenthusiastic Kurt Zellers schedules Monday vote on stadium
On second thought … the hell with it. GOP legislators have (very) quickly given up on their alternative funding schemes for a Vikings stadium, and an actual floor vote might come as early as next...
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Michele Bachmann's formal endorsement a big unity step for Romney
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Flanked by a Virginia flag and two “Romney: Believe in America” signs, Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann threw her weight behind the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on...
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Finally, a floor vote awaits after new stadium plan dies a quick death
The Republicans’ new stadium plan didn’t last long.That means supporters of a new Minneapolis stadium for the Vikings will finally get the full floor vote they’ve been asking for — Monday in the...
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Monday's the date for real jobs legislation
Wayne CoxThe Minnesota legislature gave final approval to its fake jobs bill Thursday. Governor Dayton will likely veto it. Monday is the date for the real jobs legislation.The fake jobs bill is the...
View ArticleDayton vetoes 'teacher seniority' bill
This veto required a bit more mulling than all the others. Jon Collins of MPR reports: “Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a bill Thursday that would have forced school boards and teachers unions to consider...
View ArticleJapan: Homecoming at 'hotspots' despite radiation
KAWAUCHI, Japan — More than a year after the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power, several hundred residents forced out by radiation have made a nervous first return to their homes in...
View ArticleWhite supremacist behind murders-suicide in Arizona, police say
Jason "J.T." Ready, a former US Marine who became one of the most visible white supremacists in the country amid the Arizona immigration debate, allegedly killed his girlfriend, her daughter and young...
View ArticleEgypt's military could hand over power this month
Egypt’s military rulers today reiterated their pledge to hand over power to a civilian president by July, a day after clashes in Cairo left at least 11 people dead and deepened concerns about the...
View ArticleChina blamed for multi-continent cyberspying caper in 2011
For six months last year, cyberspies infiltrated and siphoned key data from the computer networks of at least 20 organizations in the US, Australia, Canada, and Europe — all of them with policy,...
View ArticleAyatollah Khamenei gives Iran nuclear talks unprecedented legitimacy
With a second round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the “P5+1” powers just weeks away, analysts inside the Islamic Republic say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has lent upcoming nuclear...
View ArticlePioneer Press newsroom gets 'mobile engagement unit'
Don't call it a news van.Come June, Pioneer Press reporter John Brewer will be rolling around the Twin Cities in a tricked-out Ford Transit Connect. Though it sounds like something Ron Burgundy would...
View ArticleDock Street developers frustrated with Hennepin County over ‘transit trench’
The developers for the Dock Street apartments let it be known that they have no love for the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority during Thursday’s public hearing.“It’s abundantly clear that the...
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Giving history consequences: Apologizing to Minnesota’s Indian people
Thoughtful Bastards Over the course of the last several month students at the University of Minnesota have been working on a provocative class project. 60 students in Carter Meland’s “American...
View ArticleDr. Mahmoud El-Kati talks of racism and mesmerizes students at South
On Thursday, from the stage in the auditorium at Minneapolis’ South High School, a slight, elderly man shook the very bones of several hundred young people using his voice, his view of history and his...
View ArticleColin Powell discusses the WMD 'blot' on his record
In a forthcoming memoir, Colin Powell will describe the speech he gave at the U.N. justifying the U.S. invasion of Iraq on the basis of bogus evidence that Iraq possessed chemical and biological...
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