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Risk of dying in hospital increases on weekend regardless of admission day,...
Creative Commons/brykmantraResearchers found that no matter what day the patients were admitted to the hospital, if they stayed over a weekend, they had a higher risk of dying in the hospital on...
View ArticleScientists discover world's first fossilized sperm, and they're humongous
In a watery, bat-dense cave in Australia some 17 million years ago, tragedy befell a cluster of seed shrimp during their mating season. Immediately upon copulating, at least five of the tiny,...
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Mapping residential parcel values in the Twin Cities metro
Last week, we looked at all parcel values — commercial and residential — in Hennepin County. In the map below, we have added Anoka County and focused on only residential properties (taking both land...
View ArticleHow Mall of America hopes to lure Chinese, the 'world's most lucrative tourist'
It was nearly impossible for a Chinese citizen to travel outside his or her nation when the Mall of America opened in 1992. And even if they could, they had no money to spend.Twenty years later and...
View ArticleImpeachment, anyone? Influential conservative thinkers are thinking about it
I do not take seriously the idea that congressional Republicans will attempt to impeach President Obama. It didn't work for them against President Bill Clinton, who had done far more to deserve it. And...
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Evidence builds that insecticides are the main — or only — driver of bee...
CC/Flickr/dni777In a typical CCD scenario, a hive of commercial honeybees simply empties out over the winter, during a period when bees are taking a long break from pollinating chores or even, in cold...
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5 More Questions: On broadband access, 'I want the state to be a facilitator'
Every session of every legislature produces its share of “no brainer” ideas. Some, literally so. Time and money-wasting notions are floated that are so bereft of imagination and polluted with ideology...
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NRA and MCCL block tougher Minnesota campaign-finance disclosure, advocates...
Legislative efforts to toughen reporting requirements for Minnesota campaign spending are floundering this year — despite an aggressive push after two U.S. Supreme Court rulings allowing major money to...
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How fast is Twin Cities LRT compared to other cities?
streets.mn Yesterday MPR said that during Green Line testing, trains were running an average of 67 minutes between the downtowns. The planned time is 40 minutes, and according to the article, signal...
View ArticleMinnesota lost jobs in April, and March wasn't as good as first reported
Minnesota lost 4,200 jobs in April, according to the state report released today.And the March numbers were downgraded: the 2,600 jobs reportedly gained that month was dropped to 700 jobs gained.The...
View ArticleNational light rail speed chart shows Green Line slowly chugging along
The practice runs of the new Green Line light rail cars — scheduled to start running June 14 between St. Paul and Minneapolis downtowns — are being criticized as too slow, taking more than an hour to...
View ArticleFour thousand fewer jobs, but Minnesota unemployment rate drops
The Business Journal's Jim Hammerand reportsMinnesota lost 4,200 jobs in April, though unemployment fell a tenth of a point to 4.7 percent. Construction and business services took the brunt of the...
View ArticleU.S. Labor Secretary Perez to visit St. Paul and Minneapolis Friday
U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez comes to the Twin Cities Friday with events in St. Paul and Minneapolis.In St.Paul, he'll join Mayor Chris Coleman in the morning to bring attention to the national...
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Franken calls FCC net-neutrality vote 'woefully misguided'
CC/Flickr/Senate DemocratsSen. Al Franken issued a statement condemning the FCC plan.WASHINGTON — On a 3-2 vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission formally kicked off the process of...
View ArticleMedical marijuana deal is reached, after what one advocate calls 'the wildest...
Emotions flowed Thursday afternoon with the announcement that the House and Senate have come to agreement on a bill that will legalize — in very limited ways — medical marijuana.Sen. Scott Dibble,...
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Noise provokes suppression, from Mesopotamia to the U of M
CC/Flickr/Jeremy YoderAt the University of Minnesota, you’re free to speak, within prescribed channels.Twice this spring, university officials have moved to discipline students for loudly protesting...
View ArticleGovernor Dayton, once castigated by families, to sign medical marijuana bill
In addition to our Doug Grow, coverage of the deal on medical marijuana comes from the likes of Mike Cronin at the AP. “The compromise bill allows for two manufacturing facilities and eight...
View ArticleBonding, budget, taxes: How key Minnesota Legislature agreements fell into place
First came a deal on medical marijuana Thursday afternoon, and then — after hours of stalled action and closed-door compromise — Minnesota legislative leaders emerged in the early hours Friday with a...
View ArticleDay 1,156: Artists want to save Syria's children by fostering them in German...
BERLIN, Germany — Today (Friday) is Day 1,156 of the Syria conflict.As disgruntled asylum seekers from around the world camp out in the city center — some of them on hunger strike — a group of...
View ArticleUS schools largely re-segregated 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision barring school segregation by declaring that separate is “inherently unequal,” the gains in school integration that...
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