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Twin Cities charter schools fail to deliver promised gains, study claims
Once again researchers at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota have crunched data showing that charter schools as a whole underperform comparable traditional public schools...
View ArticleMayor Coleman and other mayors serve steaks to military families
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and 30 mayors from around the state will help serve steak dinners Saturday to 3,000 family members of Minnesota soldiers serving in Kuwait.At the same time, Minnesota...
View ArticleRepublican campaign as murder-suicide pact?
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone (and his eponymous Taibblog) offers a funny, insightful but savage takedown of the Repub field which says has entered “the last stage in any paranoid illness” where the...
View ArticleDFL leaders Bonoff and Thissen agree to disagree on teacher tenure bill
Friday’s legislative press briefings produced one of those rare instances where two leaders from the same party publicly disagree on one of the session’s hot issues.Just minutes apart, DFL Sen. Terri...
View ArticleMinneapolis door-to-door peddlers will have to show ID
Door-to-door peddlers in Minneapolis will have to show an ID, and your cooking school will get a break on the cost of a license to serve wine with the meal you just learned to cook.The Minneapolis City...
View ArticleAnoka-Hennepin superintendent now concedes anti-gay influence in bullying
Everyone uncomfortable with the suggestion that anti-gay bullying played a role in some of the teen suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin school district will be disappointed to hear that the superintendent...
View ArticleAnxious (but generally optimistic) lawmakers await Wednesday budget forecast
State lawmakers anxiously await Wednesday’s budget forecast, which will make it clear whether Minnesota is maintaining the pace for a projected $876 million surplus — or falling into another...
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Serious java: The Twin Cities' new generation of artisan coffee shops
Photos by Bill KelleyGordon Bellaver, co-owner of Bull Run Roasting Company, left, and Micah Svajda, manager of Quixotic, rightSix years ago, when Kopplin's Coffee opened in St. Paul, it was unique in...
View ArticleMN Blog Cabin Roundup: 2/24
First Glance at Redistrictingfrom Mr. Dilettante's Neighborhood by Mark Heuring:Bachmann would only have to move a few miles to run in the 6th and I fully expect she will. Too bad, because a...
View ArticleDayton meets with Obama in D.C.
WASHINGTON — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and more than a dozen fellow Democratic governors met with President Obama on Friday to talk about jobs and the economy. Dayton said it was a policy-first...
View ArticleWhat’s the official definition of being poor in America?
Recently issued federal poverty guidelines establish the 2012 definition of poverty in America.Bottom line, it’s easier this year than last for families to qualify as poor and thus be eligible for...
View ArticleGovernor's bullying prevention task force members named
Gov. Mark Dayton's office today announced the members of a Governor's Task Force on the Prevention of School Bullying.The governor said in a statement:“Bullying causes severe suffering and harm to the...
View ArticleTasting Tweetup 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28
On Tuesday, Feb. 28, join Social Media Breakfast - Minneapolis/St. Paul and St. Paul Tweetup for a joint tweetup at Flat Earth Brewing.Enjoy networking, socializing and beer tasting!Flat Earth is...
View ArticleWar isn't always as much fun as you thought it would be
I'm a day late reading a strong NYTimes analysis piece on the drumbeat for a conflict with Iran over its alleged nuclear ambitions, but three quotes from three different experts jumped out as worth...
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YPN5Q: Patwin Lawrence
YPN5Q is a weekly Q&A series spotlighting the state's top young business and civic leaders and creative minds — professionals propelling change through entrepreneurship, the arts, public service,...
View ArticleObama as unpopular lifeguard
Bill Maher announced last week that he was donating $1 million to an Obama-linked SuperPAC and as he did so, said:“If I had one bit of advice for our president, it would be stop trying to get everyone...
View ArticleWhat if Tom Emmer had won the governor’s office?
Editor’s note: With all of Minnesota’s political polarization since the 2010 elections, we decided to explore two possible “alternate realities” that could have occurred if relatively few voters had...
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Met Council assesses Twin Cities employment trends
Libby StarlingThe latest employment trends in the Twin Cities metro area are a classic “good news, bad news” story.The good news, says the Metropolitan Council’s Libby Staring, is that “the economic...
View ArticleThe new digital monopolies
Only the wildest dreamers of earlier generations could have imagined the everyday wonders we take for granted in the digital age.In our purses and in our pockets, we carry devices that are...
View ArticleIn Peru, one of the world's worst polluters is set to reopen
LIMA, Peru — For almost 90 years, the smelter at La Oroya, high in the Peruvian Andes, spewed out a toxic cocktail of heavy metals that slowly poisoned the town’s people.The contamination became so bad...
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