MN Blog Cabin Roundup, 4/25
6 surprising trends about Minnesota's Millennialsfrom Community Matters by Craig Helmstetter and Jane TiganThe millennial generation (currently age 14-33), also known as generation Y or the echo...
View ArticleDang it, Duluth
Duluth rolls out a welcome mat made of snow for a beleaguered Salt Lake City family.
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From nixing ERA to opposing equal pay, Phyllis Schlafly's still at it
CC/Flickr/Gage SkidmorePhyllis Schlafly speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md.In the late 1970s, when I was still a girl watching Mary Tyler Moore forge...
View ArticleDespite 'Rehab Addict' offer, Minneapolis City Council dooms 2320 Colfax
It was almost a year ago that the Minneapolis City Council stepped in to save a house constructed in 1893 by master builder Theron Potter Healy. But that was a Council election ago, and Friday, by an...
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As its people prosper, the Minnesota town of Hector hollows out
I forgot my notebook.That’s the first thing I thought after I drove from my home in St. Cloud to Hector on a Monday evening to work on this story. The second thing was, “What do I do now?”The...
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To give schoolchildren a leg up, start with some housing
CC/Flickr/Jannis Andrija SchnitzerToo many students come to school after spending nights in homeless shelters, in cars, or with multiple families squeezed into one apartment.Each decision to close...
View ArticleVänskä's office romance makes the New York Times
Talk about your Late Romantics ... . It took an out-of-towner — the New York Times — to inform us that newly re-signed Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo Vänskä was romantically involved with...
View ArticleThanks for the MinnRoast memories
Before MinnRoast 2014 recedes into history, we want to recognize those who made it possible.Our 57 generous sponsors, especially Stinson Leonard Street as Reception Host, and equally generous in-kind...
View ArticleNewspapers missing out on digital-ad boom
I recently wrote in this space about the staggering growth of digital advertising. Internet and mobile advertising has grown, on average, 18 percent every year since 2005. In that time, ad spending on...
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5 More Questions: Kyiv Post editor Brian Bonner's unfiltered take on Ukraine
Brian Bonner left the St. Paul Pioneer Press for good in 2007, eventually returning to the Kyiv Post in Ukraine, where he was quickly reappointed chief editor of the small, independent paper. A...
View ArticleKline, Paulsen bills on House GOP's spring agenda
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan bills from Reps. John Kline and Erik Paulsen are among those set to receive votes from the U.S. House in the next few weeks.With Congress returning from a two-week recess on...
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From FDR to today’s GOP: How the meaning of ‘freedom’ changed
In his 1941 State of the Union Address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rather famously enumerated what he called the “four essential human freedoms.” They were: freedom of expression, freedom of...
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Phone home: For Minnesota prisoners, it's not always affordable
African Americans in Minneapolis with family members in prison had an opportunity last week to express their anger and frustration over expensive phone charges that make it difficult for them to stay...
View ArticleClippers owner Donald Sterling: I am not a racist
From the pick-up basketball player in the White House through the ranks of professional players, broadcasters, and armchair analysts, the reaction to racist comments allegedly made by Los Angeles...
View ArticleDFL, Minnesota GOP illegal-activity complaints rejected
The state Campaign Finance and Disclosure Board has closed the book on charges of illegal activity by the DFL and Republican parties in 2012. The verdict is — not guilty.Each party had filed...
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The Last-Minute Hennepin County Candidate-Picking Tool
Tuesday is the primary to succeed Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorfman, whose district covers St. Louis Park, and southwest and downtown Minneapolis. (Polling place finder here.) If you haven't...
View ArticleThe return of the wolf
SPREMBERG, Germany — Surrounded by a flock of 250-odd black-faced sheep near this northeastern town, Frank Neumann jams his green Trilby hat on his head before a gust of wind sends it flying, then...
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Good news (sort of) for Minnesota transfer teachers in licensing limbo
Creative Commons/Scott Akerman One of Minnesota’s longest-fought education reform campaigns appears to have quietly been resolved. So quietly, in fact, that the teachers and schools most directly...
View ArticleJewish Minnesota GOP group hosts conservative commentator Kristol
The Republican Jewish Coalition of Minnesota is bringing in conservative commentator Bill Kristol tonight for a foreign policy speech to members.Kristol is the editor and co-founder of The Weekly...
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'Don't worry. I'm no longer contagious.' Yeah, right
Creative Commons/paultom2104As we rarely get a positive identification of the microbes that inflict us, making assumptions about our own levels of contagiousness is not such a good idea. Microbiologist...
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