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Former Congressman Rick Nolan, in comeback bid, revs up DFL convention crowd
Rick NolanROCHESTER — Late in the afternoon on Saturday, delegates to the state DFL convention here were growing weary.They’d spent the day crowded together at long tables, applauding speeches by their...
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Board investigating complaint on marriage group's refusal to disclose donors
In a case that will test the boundaries of campaign finance law in Minnesota, state regulators are investigating a complaint filed against the umbrella organization working to pass a constitutional...
View ArticleDFL keeps divisive mining plank out of party platform
ROCHESTER — The DFL convention’s most controversial moment came Saturday during debate over an obscurely worded mining provision in the party’s proposed 91-point platform.The proposed provision, which...
View ArticleAnita Hill speaks at Women Winning annual luncheon Monday
Anita Hill, famed for her role in the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings in 1991, speaks today at the Women Winning annual luncheon.Women Winning is celebrating its 30th year...
View ArticleGOP Senate candidate Kurt Bills to campaign Monday for Walker in Wisconsin
Kurt Bills, the GOP-endorsed candidate to take on U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota, heads east today to support Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.Bills says he'll be in Hudson at 3 p.m. to campaign for...
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Running the rapids on the Stony River
A wet Minnesota spring has many rivers running higher and faster than usual. Videographer Dan Flath and his friends took advantage of these conditions on a trip to the Stony River:
View ArticleFord plant meeting Monday night in St. Paul for update on demolition and zoning
St. Paul's Ford Site Planning Task Force meets tonight to look at a timetable for razing the former manufacturing plant.The company's decommissioning team will be introduced and will update the...
View ArticleStrib report: Canterbury Park to drop racino drive in return for tribe...
Quoting unnamed sources, the Star Tribune's Paul McEnroe is reporting Monday morning that Canterbury Park officials will drop their efforts to get slot machines at the track in return for massive...
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The DFL convenes amid lots of loathing but maybe not enough fear
ROCHESTER — On the second day of the 2012 DFL convention, 800 delegates, seemingly in imitation of some strange biological experiment, separated into dozens of amoeba-like clusters.Each had a nucleus —...
View ArticleMinnesota DFLers head to Wisconsin to help improve turnout in Walker recall...
The Minnesota DFL is sending reinforcements to help their Wisconsin brethren Tuesday in the get-out-the vote effort in the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker.The party is asking volunteers to meet at...
View ArticleOberstar endorses Nolan in the crowded 8th District DFL congressional field
Jim Oberstar, who lost his congressional seat in one of the big national political surprises of 2010, on Monday endorsed former Congressman Rick Nolan in the 8th District race as DFLers scramble to win...
View ArticleCanterbury-Sioux deal stifles other gambling dreams
It looks like that racino idea is dead for good — at least at Canterbury. Paul McEnroe of the Strib reports: “The Canterbury Park horse-racing track and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community have...
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Toward a common civic vision in Greater Minnesota
While covering important events in our civic and cultural life, journalists typically focus on facts, controversies, issues and their impact. They rarely look through the lens of understanding leaders...
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‘Driving Change’ panel: Bridging programs reveal modern nature of leadership
MinnPost has assembled a panel of leadership experts and scholars, who are rotating in commenting on each of the examples of leadership profiled in our series, "Driving Change: A Lens on Leadership."...
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McKnight fellows named; Icehouse to open
Nationally, the MacArthur Fellowships and the Doris Duke Artists Awards are the big guns — MacArthur fellows receive $500,000; Duke artists $225,000 — but here in Minnesota, we love the McKnight Artist...
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Gardens of Eagan farmer cultivates a page-turner
Every day, thousands of people drive on' Eagan’s Diffley Road, but few of them know the road is named for the Diffley family, five generations of whom lived on the acres that ran along it. Once, those...
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MinnPost launches 'Books'
MinnPost/Hugh BennewitzAmy GoetzmanToday marks the debut of MinnPost's Books page, featuring an article on Anita Diffley’s memoir, "Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works," by Amy Goetzman. The...
View ArticleRecord crowd marks Tiananmen crackdown in Hong Kong
HONG KONG – While talk of Tiananmen Square on the mainland was thoroughly muted, in Hong Kong, tens of thousands of impassioned protesters thronged downtown Victoria Park to mark the 23rd anniversary...
View ArticlePutin's China visit shows warming ties between neighboring giants
Newly inaugurated Russian President Vladimir Putin begins a two-day visit to China Tuesday that is expected to focus on the rapidly growing economic ties between the two giants and underscore their...
View ArticleS&P: “One in three” chance that Greece will leave eurozone
Standard & Poor’s analysts believe that Greece has a one in three chance of leaving the 17-country euro area in the next few months, the ratings agency said in a report released today, Bloomberg...
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