Supreme Court will take up 'no contact' domestic orders
The Minnesota Supreme Court will take up the question of those “no contact” orders in domestic disputes. At MPR, Dan Gunderson reports: “Such court orders are popular with prosecutors. According to...
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2012: The perfect DFL stormfrom mnpACT! Progressive Political Blog by Dave MindemanOne of the reasons that DFL turnout was so high is that the Party fully embraced the NO vote campaigns on the...
View ArticleMinneapolis civilian review board candidates get warm committee reception
The plan to end of the Civilian Review Authority as the arbiter of disputes between citizens and the Minneapolis Police Department brought crowds of vocal opponents to City Hall.But the public hearing...
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The new green job scene
In 2010, an article about green jobs in The Line mostly reported on what we didn't know. What's a green job? How many are there? Where are they?From two reports since then, we now know that nearly...
View ArticleIs the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship?
One Saturday in June, the Pinstripe Brass Band played a traditional jazz funeral in the lakeside Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. When "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" gave way to a livelier tune,...
View ArticleInternational shift toward China heightens search for identity in Taiwan
When the Taiwanese team won first place at a computer game tournament in October in front of 900,000 online viewers, it meant a lot to 21-year-old Huang Chia-fu in Taipei.Mr. Huang says the League of...
View ArticleVoting Rights Act: Why many Southern states are glad of Supreme Court case
In deciding Friday to take up a case on a landmark law from the civil rights era, the US Supreme Court may address a question that many Southerners have been asking for years: Did Congress misread...
View ArticleIraq to go ahead with billion-dollar Russian arms deal, defense minister says
Contrary to earlier reports, Iraq has not cancelled a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia over possible corruption, the Iraqi defense minister says."The deal is going ahead," Saadun al-Dulaimi told a...
View ArticleRepublicans, Democrats dance around the 'fiscal cliff'
Republicans and Democrats peered over the “fiscal cliff” this week and allowed as how they might be able to get along after all — avoiding the automatic tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts...
View ArticlePetraeus affair: From romantic jealousy to the downfall of 'King David'
The sudden resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus apparently started out in prosaic fashion, based on romantic jealousy that sounds like junior high school.According to news reports that grew in...
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Using Twitter ads for #VoteNO engagement
The Deets @edkohler How much do those Twitter sponsored placements go for, anyway, if you don’t mind me asking?— Ben Miller (@panchomill) November 7, 2012Ben’s asking about this tweet that I paid to...
View ArticleHigh-stepping Adrian Peterson powers a Viking revival
By the time Adrian Peterson had fought through the spreading wasteland of fallen Detroit Lions’ tacklers, he was running in full stride. You could almost see contrails in his wake.Right about there, he...
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Post-election MPS-board chatter misses several points
On Friday afternoon, after three days of hand-counting of ballots, Josh Reimnitz was named the winner of the hotly contested Minneapolis School Board election in District 4. The race, the most...
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The self-blinding brilliance of Jason Lewis
Jason LewisRadio talk genius Jason Lewis provides a tour de force (in his Sunday Strib op-ed) of the wonderful effect of willful self-blindness.Jason is saddened by the defeat of the voter ID...
View ArticleA young man takes a pregnancy test — and discovers he has testicular cancer
An odd medical story played itself out in real time on the Internet over the past couple of weeks. An apparently bored young man decided to “take” one of his ex-girlfriend’s pregnancy tests after...
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Interactive: New Minnesota Legislature's incumbents, newcomers and returnees
Explore the composition of the 2013 Minnesota Legislature, compared with the current makeup of the state's lawmakers. We've divided the 2013 lawmakers into three circles: the incumbents, the newcomers...
View Article11 ex-legislators successfully fight their way back to the Capitol
Some lawmakers leave the Legislature to pursue a career or to transition into a different branch of government, but some simply meet defeat at the polls.And many of those try to return.Ten DFLers and...
View ArticleRick Nolan headed to Washington for new member orientation
WASHINGTON — Congressman-elect Rick Nolan was on the road at 5:30 a.m. on Monday, catching a plane to Washington for this week’s new member orientation for the 113th Congress.Nolan is not, technically,...
View ArticleWhat Obama's re-election means for education
President Barack Obama’s victory last week gives him a chance to build on the education policies he has pushed since 2009 and ensures that the federal government’s role in education will not diminish...
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‘Think Like a Futurist’ author says structured process can spark creativity
Photo by Christopher EverettCecily SommersCecily Sommers is fond of citing the aphorism that innovation is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. New ideas require a creative spark — but...
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