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Ecumen, seeking replicable model, redesigning rural care in Detroit Lakes
Fueled with $3 million in grant money, Ecumen is looking to revamp the care it provides to people in rural communities. The $3 million it has received from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation will be...
View ArticleTunisians invoke Macbeth to warn against a return of toil and trouble
In a Tunis theater last week, four actors representing four ordinary Tunisians not so long ago sat on stage clutching lifesize dolls of Tunisia’s former dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. “God protect...
View ArticlePalestinians hold low expectations for Obama visit
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The helipad at the Muqataa, the memorial mausoleum where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is buried in Ramallah, has been swept clean in anticipation of next week's arrival of US...
View ArticleChina's pig dumping scandal puts spotlight on illegal pork trade
The 6,000 rotting pigs floating toward Shanghai may pose a public health problem, but at least they are not part of a much greater threat. If they had not been thrown into the Huangpu River, it is...
View ArticleReport leaked by Putin ally says ruling party actually lost in 2011
Is a power struggle breaking out among Russia's pro-Putin elite?A hitherto obscure Moscow think tank that's headed by one of Russia's most powerful men and a staunchKremlin ally, Vladimir Yakunin, has...
View ArticleFirst Latin American pope speaks softly and carries an allegedly dark past
CARACAS, Venezuela — The 266th pope, and the first ever from Latin America, has one lung, rides the subway, reads Dostoevsky and has been described as both a moral compass and a sellout to Argentina’s...
View Article10 years after Iraq War: What do we have to show for it?
First of two articles.I agree with John McCain on this: Chuck Hagel’s statement that the surge in Iraq could turn into the biggest U.S. foreign policy blunder since Vietnam was silly. McCain may be...
View ArticleThe income gap plays out in U.S. life expectancy
The Washington Post ran a troubling article last weekend that explains why raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare would be unfair to the poor.For although many Americans are...
View ArticleWhy do birds matter? Interesting answers from Audubon and beyond
A magazine devoted to the single subject of "Why Birds Matter" might have proved irresistible even if it weren't an issue of Audubon, which certainly knows the territory.And then there was the...
View ArticleTwo state House members started their political careers as legislative pages
A story about the page program in the Minnesota House of Representatives notes that two current House members, state Reps. Jenifer Loon, R-Eden Prairie, and Tara Mack, R-Apple Valley, both worked as...
View ArticleKathleen Motzenbecker named new Minnesota Trade Office director
Kathleen Motzenbecker has been named executive director of the Minnesota Trade Office, which offers services and programs to help companies do business around the world.Motzenbecker previously had been...
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Gay-marriage supporters tout freedom to persuade Republican legislators
From their cell phones to their emails to their Capitol hangouts, the men and women who are lobbying Republican legislators to support gay marriage are shouting, “Let freedom ring.”With gay marriage...
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Former GOP lawmaker Lynne Osterman talks same-sex marriage with Lawrence...
Former Minnesota GOP legislator Lynne Osterman garnered national attention for her testimony before the House Civil Law Committee on Tuesday arguing in favor of legal same-sex marriage in Minnesota,...
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Penumbra is back with memorable 'Spunk'; Jazz Fest names headliners
Penumbra is back. Last night was opening night for “Spunk,” Penumbra’s first play in its home theater in St. Paul for more than a year, an annus horribilis in which two plays were canceled, then the...
View ArticleCalifornia bill aims to be 'turning point' for college courses online
California State Sen. Darrell Steinberg wants to bridge two universes in education – the traditional campus and the realm of innovative online courses.The leader of the California Senate unveiled...
View ArticleEgypt's reviled police plead for understanding, support
The police have withdrawn from the streets of the Suez Canal city of Port Said, and in the el-Sharq police station, officers in civilian clothes huddle around their weapons, waiting for an attack....
View ArticleKimberly Ritter stands up to child sex trafficking in US hotels
The first time someone mentioned human trafficking to Kimberly Ritter, she had only a vague idea of what it was. "Isn't that something that happens in third-world countries?" she asked.That was 2008....
View ArticleProtests mount in Algeria
ALGIERS, Algeria — A towering pillar of black smoke rises menacingly above a cramped eastern suburb of the capital on an otherwise calm recent afternoon.Residents of a nearby shantytown have blocked a...
View ArticleSaving Detroit: New manager targets 'greatest turnaround' in US history
The man slated to guide Detroit to fiscal solvency in the largest state takeover of a city in United States history described his new job Thursday as “the Olympics of restructuring.”That could be an...
View ArticleEvangelicals challenge Catholic Church's dominance in Brazil
SAO PAOLO, Brazil — When Pope Francis makes his first scheduled overseas trip to the world’s most Catholic continent, he will be guaranteed an ecstatic welcome. By happy coincidence, this year’s World...
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