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Chris Coleman's St. Paul: A city with a scene
With downtown St. Paul becoming livelier by the week thanks to new bars and restaurants, and major civic art initiatives like Irrigate giving the city a new public-art profile, we thought it was high...
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Cancelling votes: The Republican myth of vote nullificationfrom Thoughtful Bastards by Paul UdstrandThe idea is that legitimate votes are nullified by illegitimate or illegal votes and a photo ID is...
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‘Pre-formatted’ special session wraps up disaster relief aid quickly
In a pre-formatted special session Friday, the Minnesota Legislature overwhelmingly passed a nearly $170 million disaster relief package for Duluth and other parts of northeast Minnesota that were...
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Klobuchar, Bills spar in vigorous State Fair debate
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her November opponent, Republican state Rep. Kurt Bills, pulled no punches in a vigorous, often contentious debate at the Minnesota State Fair on Thursday.The match-up drew...
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Year 12 in Minnesota's 'Lost Decade'
Lee EgerstromMinnesota is in the 12th year of a “Lost Decade,” according to the story jobs numbers tell, notes Kevin Ristau, education director for the St. Paul-based Jobs Now Coalition. At first...
View ArticleHealthPartners and Park Nicollet to merge
It’s what America needs. Bigger health companies. The Strib story by Jackie Crosby says: “Two of the Twin Cities' most prominent health care systems, HealthPartners and Park Nicollet, have signed an...
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Sculptor Randy Walker wins $50,000 McKnight project grant
Minnesota sculptor Randy Walker, who uses fiber and frameworks to create small and large works of art, has won Forecast Public Art’s first McKnight Mid-Career Project Grant. The $50,000 award is the...
View ArticleBackpack Buddies helps more kids look forward to weekends
Most school kids anxiously await the Friday dismissal bell, signaling the beginning of the weekend. But for many, instead of two days of fun the bell signals two days without enough to eat.Students who...
View ArticleGay man gets 'maternity' leave in Brazil
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil’s social security agency has, for the first time, given a four-month "maternity" leave to a gay man so that he can care for his adopted child.Lucimar da Silva requested the...
View ArticlePakistani blasphemy case: latest twist in young girl's fate
The bail hearing of a young Christian girl accused of blasphemy has been postponed until Sept.1 to verify a medical report confirming her age and reported mental handicap.The girl was jailed more than...
View ArticleCalifornia nears ban on 'conversion' therapy for gay youths
California is poised to become the first state in the country to ban “conversion” or “reparative” therapy for minor — treatments that claim to stop a young person from being lesbian, gay, bisexual or...
View ArticleUzbekistan, key to Afghan war drawdown, to ban foreign military bases
Today, Uzbekistan’s upper house of parliament approved a new bill banning any foreign military bases on its territory in what appears to be an effort to appease regional power Moscow.The bill still has...
View ArticleFor women at GOP convention, a mission to overcome Romney's gender gap
Janet Barresi, a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Oklahoma City, looks around the Tampa Bay Times Forum at the sea of faces – many of them women – and shakes her head.“You know, I’ve...
View ArticleKhamenei: Nuclear weapons are an unforgivable sin
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Syyed Ali Khamenei, announced on Thursday that Iran has never wanted nuclear weapons, but maintained that the country would never give up its right to use nuclear...
View ArticleAmid squalor and fear on Turkish border, Syrians make plea for safe zone
In this camp that has sprung up along the Turkish border, 5,000 Syrians who have fled their country's civil war live under covered vehicle lanes on an unfinished section of the Syrian border, waiting...
View ArticleFriday's a State Fair day for Gov. Mark Dayton
Let's hope Gov. Mark Dayton skips the Stratosphere ride on the Midway and keeps to the media interviews when he spends much of the day at the State Fair.Dayton is scheduled for three interviews on the...
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Archbishop Nienstedt's latest marriage-amendment letter adds to Catholic turmoil
Archbishop John C. NienstedtOn Sunday, priests in a number of Twin Cities Roman Catholic parishes read a letter from Archbishop John Nienstedt re-stating the church’s support for the proposed...
View ArticleHow medical opinions on circumcision have shifted over the years
Few medical topics generate as much debate — often quite heated — as newborn male circumcision. Earlier this month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced that it was reversing its position...
View ArticleDemocratic polls show tight race in the 8th District
Two new Democratic polls indicate what most political observers have predicted for a while: the race in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District is very close.A poll commissioned by the Democratic...
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Almanzo100: 100-mile gravel bike race in Spring Valley, MN
If the idea of riding a 100-mile bike race seems too easy to you, try doing it on gravel roads. That's the challenge of the Almanzo100, an annual gravel road century held in Spring Valley, MN. In this...
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