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Mayor Rybak’s Minneapolis budget tour
The Deets I had a chance to catch Mayor RT Rybak’s Minneapolis city budget tour last week at the Becketwood senior home. Overall, the city is pays its bills and has a great credit rating, but I found...
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Development of 'game-changing' flu vaccines should be encouraged, U of M...
Current vaccines are not as protective against influenza as public-health messages suggest — a factor that is holding back efforts to develop truly effective and “game-changing” flu vaccines, according...
View ArticleWhat to do with Block E? Thinking outside the cubicle
The entertainment complex known as Block E on Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis is just about empty now that the AMC movie theater has shut down. Only Kiernan's Irish Pub, the Graves 601 Hotel...
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Street stories: 36th Avenue — Suspicious water leaks and the Replacements
In the latest episode of MPLS.TV's excellent Street Stories series, Jacquie Fuller explains how she was interrupted from filling out a rather intimate survey by a progressively worsening water leak...
View ArticleHeading into the next presidential debate...
I appreciate Alec MacGillis of The New Republic going on a modest rant this a.m. against the overimportance attached to tonight's debate or the debates in general.Of course, keeping things in...
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Auctioned art and sports memorabilia raise $20K for Tom Petters fraud victims
The government raised $19,835 Monday night for victims of the Tom Petters schemes by auctioning off 86 of his personal items.By the end of the evening, we "contributed" a modest amount to that...
View ArticleConcerns raised about water supply in Red River Valley
You heard it right: Lack of rainfall may mean drought contingency plans in the Grand Forks area. Ryan Bakken of the Grand Forks Herald writes that the Red Lake River has fallen to levels not seen since...
View ArticleCouncil on Foundations reports charitable giving is up slightly in Minnesota
The Minnesota Council on Foundations' latest charitable giving report says that "giving by individuals, foundations and corporate giving programs totaled $5.2 billion" during the year ending May...
View ArticleMinnesota Council of Churches launches campaign against voting amendment
In the final weeks before Election Day, a coalition of churches representing about 1 million Minnesota Christians has jumped into the fight against the proposed voting amendment, citing many of the...
View ArticleSt. Paul will fight lawsuit challenging Saints ballpark construction award
St. Paul officials are defending their decision to award the design and construction work for the new St. Paul Saints ballpark to a Twin Cities firm without putting it out for competitive bids.The...
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Public offers ideas — novel to bizarre — for Vikings stadium
Be very careful when asking the public for input in anything, especially a billion-dollar football palace. Tim Nelson of MPR reports on the stadium architects’ “listening tour”: “Closed captioning for...
View ArticleSt. Paul City Council to vote on $385,000 settlement of cops'...
The St. Paul City Council will vote Wednesday on a $385,000 settlement with Anne Marie Rasmusson, the former police officer who has filed suit asking for compensation because hundreds of law...
View ArticleThree weeks out, Cravaack and Nolan debate again
CAMBRIDGE, Minn. — Three weeks before Election Day, Republican Congressman Chip Cravaack and DFL challenger Rick Nolan fought over federal- and 8th District-specific policies in a debate here...
View ArticleGraves internal polling shows him trailing Bachmann by 2 points, 47-45
Political blogger Blois Olson is reporting Tuesday afternoon that internal polling for DFL congressional candidate Jim Graves shows him within 2 points of incumbent Republican Congresswoman Michele...
View ArticleAre you an Optimist?
At some point, by means of which one knows not, one (me, actually) was added to the emailing list of a small alternative political party (of which one previously knew not) calling itself the National...
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Strong wireless capability is critical to the Hispanic community
America’s Latinos are among the most active users of mobile communications among all demographic groups in the United States, according to the report, "Hispanic Broadband Access: Making the Most of the...
View ArticlePoll finds marriage amendment a draw
KSTP-TV’s latest polling shows the trend lines favoring opponents of the GOP’s marriage amendment. Tom Hauser says: “Less than three weeks from Election Day the battle over Minnesota's marriage...
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Celebrating MinnPost's 5th anniversary
Reaching five years is a big milestone -- especially in this rapidly changing media environment. Since our launch in November, 2007, MinnPost has become a national leader in the nonprofit regional...
View ArticleJaded journalist tours Twin Cities metro area — and gets a shot of hope
Last week, I got a shot of hope.It happens so infrequently that I had to lie down for a while to recover.The event that produced this strange reaction was a "press familiarization tour" to highlight...
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Citizens League to celebrate 60 years of policy innovation
For 60 years, the Citizens League has had a singular impact on Minnesota. With the simple idea of bringing all the stakeholders to the table to work on solving the big policy issues of the day, the...
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