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Wary business community appears ready to work with DFL Legislature
DFL majorities in the state Legislature — coupled with a Democratic governor for the first time in 22 years — may not spell doom for Minnesota’s business community, despite some members’ post-Election...
View ArticleNew study stirs up controversy (again) about breast cancer screening
A study published last Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) provides more evidence that the benefits of regular mammogram screenings have been oversold to women.It’s also reigniting...
View ArticleVikings’ casualties mount, odds of making playoffs decline
You have to admit that the omens are bleak for your football team when your best player misses the bus to the stadium.The odds get worse when your quarterback alternately throws wide, short and too...
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'Diverse Schools Dilemma' guides parents in assessing city schools
Mike Petrilli’s quandary will be a familiar one to lots of Twin Cities parents. Before the arrival of their two sons, Petrilli and his wife — modest earners both — enjoyed living in the heart of the...
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Forget shopping in North Dakota on a Sunday morning
Minnesota Prairie Roots LET’S PRETEND FOR A MOMENT that you are me. You’ve traveled nearly 300 miles from southeastern Minnesota to Fargo, North Dakota, with your husband to visit your son at North...
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Working dogs help MN Dept. of Agriculture detect Emerald Ash Borer
People have been relying on dogs' keen sense of smell for thousands of years, for tasks ranging from helping hunters find prey to sniffing out explosives. Thanks to a Minnesota Department of...
View ArticleState Patrol says 13 of the state's 87 counties to get extra DWI patrols
The Minnesota State Patrol will concentrate its DWI patrols in 13 counties through next fall, in an effort to reduce drunk driving deaths.The 13 counties, which include the core Twin Cities counties,...
View ArticleKriesel-for-governor tweet circulates over the weekend
Over the long holiday weekend a tweet was circulated showing a logo for a (so-far) imaginary John Kriesel gubernatorial campaign in 2014.Blois Olson mentions in his newsletter that state Rep. Pat...
View ArticleMinnesotaCare's 20th anniversary to be feted with speakers and panels
On Tuesday current and former lawmakers will discuss the 20the anniversary of MinnesotaCare, the health-care program for low-income residents who don't have other health insurance."MinnesotaCare/20th:...
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Little Falls teens were allegedly 'finished off' point-blank
Shades of Bernhard Goetz … . Curt Brown of the Strib reports, “[Homeowner Byron Smith] heard glass breaking around noon Thursday while he was in the basement. It was the latest of several break-ins...
View ArticleIslamists silence the musicians who guide rural Mali
Down a street of red earth near the outskirts of the Malian capital, a family is preparing for the naming ceremony of its newest member – an event now forbidden in their northern home region by...
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Buzz about orchestra lockouts is heating up
MinnPost photo by Craig LassigAs pressure mounts to resolve the Twin Cities' twin orchestra lockouts, musicians of both orchestras keep playing under their own power. Conversation is heating up around...
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Sister Kenny Institute revolutionized treatment of polio patients
The Sister Kenny Institute was founded in 1942 as a rehabilitation-based treatment center for polio patients. In the 1940s and 1950s, polio was one of the most widespread and dreaded childhood diseases...
View ArticleChina's passport propaganda baffles experts
China’s neighbors are seething with anger over new Beijing-issued passports that they see as the latest, underhand, Chinese jab in an ongoing regional row about maritime territory. Beijing has...
View ArticleKoreans worry about safety after toxic factory leak
On Sept. 27, a dark cloud of gas came over Kim Sun-mi’s village in the industrial southwest ofSouth Korea. She knew by the acrid smell that something had gone wrong at the nearby cluster of...
View ArticleMerkel dabbles in risky business: religion
BERLIN, Germany — When Barack Obama traveled to the eastern city of Dresden with Angela Merkel in 2009, they stopped at the Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady. Leveled by Allied bombing raids in 1945,...
View ArticleGrowing up in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Fatima Qortoum was just 9 years old when she saw the brains of her brother, 7-year-old Ahmed, fall out of his head. He was struck with shrapnel after an Israeli airstrike. That...
View ArticleSusan Rice: Why GOP opposition to her is no longer white-hot
It’s looking more likely that if President Obama wants Susan Rice, the US ambassador to theUnited Nations, as his next secretary of State, he’ll get his wish.Key Republicans are softening their...
View ArticleFiscal cliff: White House steps up pressure on GOP to reach a deal
The White House is ramping up pressure on Republicans to make a deal that averts a trip over the “fiscal cliff.”Monday morning, the White House put out a report warning that Americans might pull back...
View ArticleBankruptcy judge shakes up power dynamics in Pinnacle pilot talks
Pinnacle Airlines' union pilots, including hundreds based in Minnesota, have gained leverage at the bargaining table from an unlikely source -- a U.S. bankruptcy judge in New York.Bankruptcy court has...
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