Blue Cross CEO out after only six months
I think we can safely speculate that there is more to this story. At the Strib, Jackie Crosby writes: “Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota said Thursday that it was pushing out its president and...
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Learning to sail on Lake Calhoun
The crew from Intermedia Arts' Our Turn interviews Larry Salzman, director of the Lake Calhoun sailing school in Minneapolis, about the sport of sailing.
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Discovering a historic gem (pearl) in Lake City
Minnesota Prairie Roots Photo by Audrey Kletscher HelblingA view of downtown Lake City, Minnesota.DRIVING INTO LAKE CITY on a recent sultry summer afternoon, I expected to learn about water skiing in...
View ArticleChina's bridges and dams crumble under corruption
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Fourteen bodies have been recovered following a mudslide that ripped through the construction site of the massive Baihetan Dam on June 28. According to Chinese state media, rescue...
View ArticleNew polls show glaring weaknesses for both Obama and Romney
The Obama-Romney horse race is still a dead heat, according to the latest national polls. No surprise there. But below that top line, the numbers tell a tale of two presidential candidates with glaring...
View ArticleUS drought: how it could impact food, water needs around the world
As the historic drought now searing more than 60 percent of the US drags on, the impact could soon be sweeping across the country and beyond.After the obvious push on food prices, drought experts say...
View ArticleEgypt's Omar Suleiman dies in US hospital
CAIRO, Egypt — Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s former chief of intelligence and one of the US government’s most ruthless allies in the “war on terror,” died Wednesday while undergoing treatment at a Cleveland...
View ArticleSyria resolution defeated at UN. Does that free up US to act on its own?
Russia’s veto Thursday of a Security Council resolution aimed at quelling the chaotic violence in Syria revealed a paralyzed and bitterly divided international community. But the failure of the...
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Amy Leach sees nature in a whole new way
Courtesy of Milkweed EditionsAmy LeachAmy Leach has been compared to Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein and Emily Dickinson for her remarkable writing style, which is playful and wonderfully weird while...
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Designer Raul Osorio on 'Project Runway'; Nancy Harms in town
Were you blue when Heidi Klum bid “Auf Wiedersehen” to Katherine Gerdes, Christopher Straub, Ra’mon-Lawrence Coleman and Danielle Everine? Good news, “Project Runway” fans: there’s another Minnesota...
View ArticleBachmann now alleges Ellison ties to Muslim Brotherhood
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison has been one of Michele Bachmann's fiercest critics since she originally asked for a probe into the reach of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. government. On...
View ArticleCritics challenge findings, funding and methodology of controversial...
Six weeks ago, a University of Texas sociology professor released the results of a study that found that children raised by gay or lesbian parents fared poorly when compared with kids raised by intact...
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Twin Cities suburbs rapidly becoming more diverse
Stereotypes, someone once told me, have roots in reality. Problem is, they can persist in our heads long after they've become outmoded.Take the suburbs. Most of us think of them as vast expanses of...
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'Pre-diabetes': A case of disease-mongering?
We’re hearing more and more about “pre-diabetes.” But is it a manufactured medical condition?Yes, argues Canadian health policy researcher and analyst Colleen Fuller on her PharmaWatch Canada...
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Tough mural ‘advertising’ rules? Minneapolis Council Member Gary Schiff wants...
You’ve probably seen the work of artist Kyle Holdridge. His work is everywhere and includes giant motorcycles, vintage cars, bowling balls knocking over pins taller than you are and a Kirby Puckett...
View ArticleDFL Chair Ken Martin wants Cravaack, Kline and Paulsen to join denunciation...
Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota DFL Party, didn't miss the opportunity to try to draw the state's GOP congressional delegation into the controversy over comments made by Congresswoman Michele...
View ArticleBatman premiere shooting in Colorado: eyewitness account
Local Aurora, Colorado residents Quentin Caldwell and Sharon Segura describe a brutally chaotic scene at the theater in the Denver suburbs where a gunman killed 12 and wounded 40 at the midnight...
View ArticleIndonesia's Ramadan porn block blitz
What do you get when you allow an attention-seeking fundamentalist to head a massive nation's IT ministry?A lot of anti-porn crusading.Tifatul Sembiring, Communications and Information Technology...
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Bachmann: Muslim infiltration is 'truly breathless'
I tell you what, ma'am, why don’t you just give us the shorter list, the one of those who aren’t “deeply penetrated” by the Muslim Brotherhood? Kevin Diaz of the Strib writes about Our Favorite...
View ArticleMN Blog Cabin Roundup, 7/20
Liberty, but on MY termsfrom Cows and Graveyards by Steven MaloneyThe assumption of the piece is then revealed for what it is: a closet case for moral authoritarianism. The only way that “do your own...
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