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Legislators should rethink costly renewable-energy mandates
CC/Flickr/bristley"Subsidizing solar panels in Germany was about as useful as growing pineapples in Alaska."Little noticed in legislative debates over taxes and budgets, House File 956, an omnibus...
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Orono investment banker Scott Honour to challenge Dayton
Aaaand we have an opponent ... The AP story says: “Minnesota’s slow-starting 2014 governor’s race got its first serious Republican contender on Wednesday when a successful businessman and political...
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Joyce Foundation makes a grant to MinnPost and the Wisconsin Center for...
MinnPost and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism are receiving a major grant from The Joyce Foundation to support reporting on key issues in their neighboring states.The $100,000 grant,...
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Don Shelby takes on his biggest role in VocalEssence's ‘Paul Bunyan’
Photo by Mike KrivitDon Shelby as the voice of Paul Bunyan and folksinger Pop WagnerSince pushing back from the anchor’s desk at WCCO in 2010, Don Shelby has gone to college, built a house, grown his...
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Religion and politics 101: A Q&A with Rev. Steven Baines
The Rev. Steven BainesHow come churches on both sides of the issues were so active in last year’s elections? How can they maintain their tax-exempt status if they’re preaching about politics? Is it...
View ArticleNigeria tries to get on track with new Lagos-Kano train
LAGOS-KANO RAILWAY, Nigeria — Despite the 90-degree tropical heat and the ample cabin space inside as the train departs, young men cling to the train’s open doorways as it exits the southern city of...
View ArticleTo Obama's dismay, America not outraged by gun control fail, poll suggests
The paradox of American gun control got deeper Wednesday. Or, at least it appeared to. On the surface, the poll released by The Washington Post and Pew Research Center made no sense. Only 47 percent of...
View ArticleUS military chief in Beijing warns of North Korea 'miscalculation'
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, traveled to China this week to meet its top leaders after weeks of missile threats directed at South Korea and the US by North Korea's Kim...
View ArticleDay after cracks were found, Bangladesh factory collapse leaves 125-plus dead
Eleven-year-old Taslima asked her mother not to go to her job at a local factory this morning after workers there noticed large cracks inside the building. But where would the money come from if she...
View ArticleFlight delayed? Republicans blame FAA, and FAA blames 'sequester'
Flight delays at US airports starting this week are unavoidable because of budget cuts, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration told Congress Wednesday, seeking to deflect Republican...
View ArticleIn Dagestan, US blamed for Boston bombing
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — US investigators who questioned the parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev here in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan are helping fill...
View ArticleChemical weapons in Syria? What Obama's high bar for proof could mean
The US reluctance to join with three key allies – Britain, France, and now Israel – in concluding that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons in his country’s civil war confirms President...
View ArticleDigital bits
Who will get David Gillette's ethereal e-bits after he's gone?Watch Digital Bits on PBS. See more from KTCA.
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Why Murdoch — and the rest of us — often refuse to apologize
CC/Flickr/David ShankboneEgotism means never having to say you’re sorry.Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has refused to apologize for the decision of his editors at the New York Post last week to run the now...
View ArticleBachmann will probably run again — and she needs to lose
mnpACT! Progressive Political Blog Eric Black wrote a somewhat controversial piece about Michele Bachmann in MinnPost this week.He speculates that Michele Bachmann has worn out her welcome with GOP...
View ArticleRepublican gubernatorial candidate Scott Honour declines local interviews,...
Republican Scott Honour announced Wednesday via Twitter and a web site that he's challenging Gov. Mark Dayton in next year's gubernatorial election.But the retired private equity executive from...
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Aurora and starlight over northern Minnesota
Northern Minnesota photographer Mark Ellis was up early on April 14th, but it wasn't to get an early start on last-minute tax preparation. Instead, he was taking photos for this aurora time-lapse....
View ArticleAmerican Indian veterans to be honored with plaque on Capitol's Court of Honor
American Indian veterans will be honored with a memorial plaque to be placed on the state Capitol grounds.Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill this week authorizing placement of the plaque on the Court of...
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Political speeches: Why all the lengthy rhetoric even when they know they’ll...
Long before the House omnibus tax bill came to the floor Wednesday, Republicans knew it was going to pass.So certain were they that the DFL-controlled House would pass the bill that Rep. Greg Davids,...
View ArticleThe only path to settlement: Orchestra musicians, board members must negotiate
The following is an open letter to the negotiating committee of the Minnesota Orchestra's musicians from members of the Minnesota Orchestra's board in response to a recent Community Voices piece. To...
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