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2013 Minnesota Swarm season
01/26/2013 (All day) - 04/20/2013 (All day)MinnPost is a media sponsor.On October 25, 2004, sports fans and lacrosse enthusiasts in the Twin Cities were introduced to the Minnesota Swarm. The Minnesota...
View ArticleJudge orders 35 random ballots tossed in tight House race
What century is this?WCCO-TV’s Pat Kessler reports on the rather medieval approach to House District 8B’s mangled election: “A Minnesota judge has ruled that election officials must randomly cancel 35...
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Saying goodbye to the ‘passenger mile’
streets.mn Last week I made a terrible mistake. I accidentally clicked on a link to a radio story from APM’s Marketplace, a “freakonomics” segment that argued that transit wasn’t as environmentally...
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'Endangered' tax credits a key part of financing affordable housing projects
So far, the plan is still up in the air, but Dominium, a large multi-family housing developer, has tossed its hardhat in the ring to develop an affordable apartment project on a vacant lot owned by St....
View ArticleAzerbaijan's president launches Twitter rant against Armenia
Azerbaijan's president doesn't like Armenia, and he's not afraid to say it. Nor, it seems, to tweet it.President Ilham Aliyev's Twitter followers were treated today to a string of more than 30 messages...
View ArticleIllegal immigration: Who's applying for Obama's 'DREAM Act' deferrals?
About one-quarter of the young undocumented immigrants eligible for the two-year deportation deferral established by President Obama have applied since the program started Aug. 15Statistics released...
View ArticleWho are the rebels in Goma and what do they want?
Rebels calling themselves the March 23 Movement have taken over the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The country has seen a number of armed factions fighting in the east over...
View ArticleIn historic move, blasphemy case against Pakistani girl to be dropped
In what is being termed a historic verdict by the higher courts in Pakistan, charges against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy were dropped on Tuesday, in response to an appeal filed by her council...
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Montana ads add a genuine regional flavor to the urban landscape
Living in a city deprived of a proper subway system, we sadly miss out on many transit-specific aspects of urban visual culture, from roving mariachi bands to subterranean Art Deco mosaics to Harry...
View ArticleSyrian rebels put choke hold on government supply lines
After months of fighting, Syrian opposition forces in Aleppo say that in the past week they’ve captured several critical areas from government forces that may soon give them the upper hand in northern...
View ArticleMore time or tough love? Eurozone deadlocks over Greece debt deal
For the second time in the past two weeks, the eurozone has failed to come up with a rescue plan for Greece which is on the verge of insolvency. Finance ministers of the so-called Eurogroup meeting in...
View ArticleGaza: The roots of conflict
JABALIYA and GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — For the residents of the war-battered Gaza Strip, this is not the war to end all wars.There was the ferocious Israeli assault in 2008-2009 that left more than a...
View ArticleWhat do enviro-minded voters want? Look to ballot questions for the answers
Second of two partsSo how did “the environment” do in this year's elections?Pretty well would be the prevailing view, in that the winning candidates from President Barack Obama on down were usually...
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Tired of turkey? Try some Lake Superior herring
Tired of yet another year of turkey on Thanksgiving? Why not try Lake Superior herring? In this episode of Confused Herring, Chef Avery Cassar from At Sara's Table Chester Creek Cafe in Duluth...
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DFL legislative ‘unity’ may be hard to keep with likely tax and spending fights
State Sen. Scott DibbleFor the moment, almost all DFL legislators seem to be reading from the same script when talking of the upcoming session.“Get off the (fiscal) roller coaster,” says Sen. Katie...
View ArticleIowa governor says Ames Straw Poll should end, blames Bachmann's win
Will the death of the Ames Straw Poll be the legacy of Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign? If Iowa's Republican Gov. Terry Branstad has his way, yes.Branstad told the Wall Street Journal that the...
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Mankato writer Nick Healy hits his stride
Nick HealyThere’s something going on in Mankato. Although the city has just 50,000 people and is separated from the metropolitan arts scene by a long haul through corn country, it has an unusually high...
View ArticleEven before taking office, new Spring Grove mayor demands end to road work
Bruce Poole ran for mayor of Spring Grove, in southeastern Minnesota, on a platform to stop the planned reconstruction of Main Street, which he and others thought was too expensive.And he won, beating...
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The economics of Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day
What comes to your mind when you think about the Friday after Thanksgiving? Is it Black Friday, a day to get going on your Christmas shopping and perhaps snag some great bargains? Or is it Buy Nothing...
View ArticleIt appears Arne Duncan has no hole card for Obama's second term
Remember the lack of talk about national education policy in the run-up to the presidential election? It seems you can prepare for more of the same.U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has outlined...
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