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The Twin Cities' broadband challenge
Here’s the pop quiz for today: If you wanted to use your garage for a high-tech startup, one that was going to require a gig of connectivity, where would be the best possible place for that garage to...
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Sen. Mike Parry, GOP colleagues dispute secretary of state’s amendment actions
A key Senate committee is investigating Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s conduct related to the Photo ID and Marriage constitutional amendments slated to appear before voters in November.The Senate...
View ArticleMet Council looking at 2% property tax increase for 2013 budget
The Met Council is preparing its 2013 budget, and is looking at an operating budget that's $48 million more than this year.That would be a 6 percent increase over this year's $780 million budget to...
View ArticleSpain arrests three Al Qaeda suspects amid concern about 'lone wolves'
Spanish authorities have arrested three suspected Al Qaeda militants who were allegedly planning an attack in “Spain and/or other European countries” and confiscated enough explosives “to destroy a...
View ArticleMarkets tumble after European bank fails to promise bond bailout
The European Central Bank (ECB) said today it was ready to intervene in the bond market in order to help ailing eurozone economies like Spain and Italy. But the bank's vagueness over how and when it...
View ArticleResignation of New Yorker writer revives questions about media ethics
Declining circulation, shrinking news holes, newsroom layoffs: It’s not the best of times for the journalism profession. Now add to those woes yet another ethics scandal involving fabricated quotations...
View ArticleTax reform takes bipartisan step in Senate. Could something come of it?
The comprehensive tax reform urged by many in Congress and both presidential candidates may have taken a small step forward on Thursday, as the Senate Finance Committee passed a package of some 50 tax...
View ArticleKofi Annan quits as UN's Syria envoy. Is diplomacy at an end?
Syria envoy Kofi Annan called it quits Thursday, confirming a growing conclusion that international diplomacy is having no impact on the 17-month-old crisis and that the only path in Syria now appears...
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Arts-fest weekend in Minneapolis — and a Barnfest in Red Wing
We’re about to get a break from summer’s hammering heat, just in time for art fairs weekend. Uptown, the Godzilla of Minnesota art fairs, starts at noon today (Friday, Aug. 3) and continues through 5...
View ArticleWayzata Investment Partners gains Star Tribune control
Quick update to Wednesday's feature on Wayzata Investment Partners, the secretive private-equity firm bidding to become the Star Tribune's majority owners.Wayzata's bid to buy out Credit Suisse and go...
View ArticleBullying report a good school 'toolkit' even if law changes are slow to come
Had a group of cynics been appointed to the governor’s task force on the prevention of bullying, they might have been forgiven for approaching their task, in Minnesota, in the ideologically polarized...
View ArticleOnward Christian Soldier Bachmann
It wasn’t until late Thursday that I got around to reading Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s op-ed in the Strib. Three points:No. 1This is the standard Bachmann double down. The “evidence” in her op-ed...
View ArticleBachmann says she 'understands' Sartell plant closing and will work to bring...
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who represents Sartell in central Minnesota, said she understands the decision to close the 105-year-old paper plant there after an explosion on Memorial Day killed one...
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Why SuperValu prospered and how strengths of the company could survive
I still remember wandering away from my mom and getting lost at the 7-Hi Red Owl when I was about 6, checking out at SuperValu and getting Gold Bond stamps, and shopping at Country Club Market while my...
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A Bachmann challenge that's conventional just will not work
mnpACT! Progressive Political Blog jimgraves.comJim GravesI'm not going to be on any Jim Graves' list of favorite people, so I might as well say what I think.Take the gloves off and shovel the...
View ArticleMinneapolis targets Backpage.com ads in fight against juvenile sex trafficking
The Minneapolis Police Department is investigating 20 active cases of juvenile sex trafficking, and in every instance they say, the young victims were marketed and sold on the Internet via...
View ArticleCongressman Paulsen named acting chair of Human Resources subcommittee
U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen will serve as acting chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources through the end of the year.He takes the reins after former Chairman Geoff Davis of...
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Komen charged with using deceptive statistics to 'sell' mammograms
A commentary published Thursday in the journal BMJ describes how the world’s largest breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, uses deceptive statistics to promote mammography screening.The...
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Something's coming — something good (we hope) — on Lake Street
MinnPost photo by Marlys HarrisThe Kmart on Lake Street.Recently, California Home and Design magazine listed the Mall of America as one of "25 Buildings to Demolish Right Now." I was crushed. While...
View ArticleDeadly sandwiches: remarkably dangerous lunchtimes throughout history
Sewing needles have been found in in-flight sandwiches on Delta and now, on Air Canada, causing some to cast an eye of suspicion towards our most dearly-beloved lunchtime dish. But what about other...
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