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Senate majority leader David Senjem on bonding, state grant priorities
Last week, Gov. Mark Dayton announced the winners of grants from the state's $47.5 million bonding fund. In this interview with Julie Bartkey of Senate Media Services, Senate majority leader David...
View ArticleHennepin County reports 'mixed results' from federal stimulus funding
A report from Hennepin County that looks at the impact of federal stimulus spending there says that while it preserved or created jobs, there were few shovel-ready projects and not much was allocated...
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Diane Wilson opens the book on 150 years of Dakota history
Diane WilsonThe Dakota people have lived in Minnesota for thousands of years. But in many ways, the contemporary experience of Dakota life dates back only 150 years, to 1862.That August, a band of...
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'Nabucco' at Minnesota Opera; Festa Italiana at Harriet Island
Friday, September 21That’s AmoreWHAT: Festa ItalianaWHERE: Harriet Island, St. PaulWHEN: 3 to 10 p.m.In only its second year, this cultural festival is a crowd-pleaser for the same reason that Buca’s...
View ArticleLt. Gov. Prettner Solon to parachute onto Capitol lawn with Army team to show...
In what is billed as a show of support for the troops, Minnesota's Lt. Gov. Yvonne Prettner Solon will parachute Tuesday afternoon from the skies above St. Paul to land on the state Capitol lawn.She'll...
View ArticleMinnesota loses 2,000 jobs in August; unemployment rate at 5.9%
Minnesota lost 2,000 jobs in August, raising the unemployment rate by 0.1 of a percentage point to 5.9 percent, state officials reported today.The national unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in...
View ArticleRemembrance of Murder Victims event Tuesday in St. Paul
Murder victims will be remembered in an event Tuesday at the Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center in St. Paul.The sixth annual Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims will be hosted by the Ben Doran...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann ad berates challenger 'Big Spendin' Jim' Graves
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's first campaign ad for her re-election bid against challenger Jim Graves is ready.She calls her opponent "Big Spendin' Jim" and says he supported the stimulus plan...
View ArticlePeru: As Shining Path's political arm grows, government clamps down
The Shining Path, a Maoist group that terrorized Peru during the country’s civil war in the 1980s and ‘90s, is putting the government on the defensive once again.The recent growth of the Movement for...
View ArticleHow many will pay health-care tax penalty? CBO estimate rises 50 percent
Citing a gloomier economic outlook, the Congressional Budget Office now says the number of people who will pay tax penalties under President Obama’s health-care reform law will be 50 percent higher...
View ArticleSomalia gears up for final offensive against Al Shabaab
NAIROBI, Kenya — In 2007, US Special Forces tried to kill Ahmed Madobe. Today, he is a key ally, working to run Al Shabaab out of Somalia.It’s been a long-fought battle with the Al Qaeda affiliate, one...
View ArticlePakistani TV stations air a real 'Made in USA' video. Will it calm violence?
The United States is taking steps to head off new rounds of anti-American violence in some Muslim countries, even as it moves to get to the bottom of last week’s violent attacks against US...
View ArticleFast and Furious: why inspector 'struggled to understand' what he found
The US inspector general assigned to get to the bottom of the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” fiasco on Thursday debunked the notion that Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the program — or that it...
View ArticleGallup: In general, Americans don't trust the media; Repubs trust it even less
From a just-out Gallup poll:"In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media -- such as newspapers, T.V. and radio -- when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately, and...
View ArticleGrowth & Justice musical revue to highlight policy and politics
The progressive think tank Growth & Justice is producing "Songs and Substance," a musical revue, Thursday at the Huge Improv Theater in Minneapolis.They call it "A Public Policy and Political...
View ArticleJesse Ventura joining Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson at Macalester rally
Today's rally for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson at Macalester College will also feature former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who's long expressed libertarian views.In fact, Ventura...
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Chris Stewart's pizza-and-policy session produces agreement — and disagreement
Tuesday night at north Minneapolis’ Broadway Pizza, a slender reed was extended over a deep, wide chasm. It wasn’t the bridge dreamed of by Chris Stewart, who paid for the pie and set the ground rules,...
View ArticleGarrison Keillor takes his political show on the road to Lanesboro
Radio host Garrison Keillor spoke for an hour at a DFL fundraiser in Lanesboro Wednesday night.He was supporting the Fillmore County Democrats.The Rochester Post Bulletin says he wore his red sneakers...
View ArticleMarriage amendment opponents air second TV ad
A second television ad opposing the proposed marriage amendment is airing in Minnesota.Minnesotans United for All Families had put up its first ad Tuesday, featuring a Republican Catholic couple that...
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Cancer Survivors Park: Making a space into a place
Every time I drove by Cancer Survivors Park in downtown Minneapolis, I shuddered a bit.Don't get me wrong. Anybody who battles such a relentless disease, survivor or not, deserves a monument. But, for...
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