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Teenagers or monsters? Blank Slate Theatre tackles Columbine
Thoughtful Bastards Photo by Paul UdstrandLoren O’Brien and Mitchell SeymourSometimes I can’t believe my luck.Last Thursday I got to photograph a dress rehearsal of Blank Slate Theatre’s latest...
View ArticleYoung and restless in Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — On a searing Monday morning, Okaiconi Abe Cyrcille takes shelter from the sun against the wall of a ramshackle residence in Abobo, an impoverished district of Ivory Coast’s...
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19 Minnesota companies in Fortune 500; 10 move up in rank
Nineteen Minnesota companies made the Fortune 500 list of the largest public and closely held corporations in the United States based on revenue—and 10 of them moved up in rank. The 19 companies...
View ArticleGermans see troubling questions in high-profile neo-Nazi murder trial
Her picture is on the front page of every single newspaper in Germany today.Beate Zschäpe, the 38-year-old who is accused of having been a member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a neo-Nazi...
View ArticleExercise is best 'youth pill' around, but 80% — including Minnesotans — fall...
Only about one in five Americans — including Minnesotans — are meeting the minimum federal guidelines for both aerobic and anaerobic (muscle-strengthening) activity, according to a new study by the...
View ArticleArgentina's judicial reform: positive step or consolidation of power?
Opponents of Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner have long decried what they view as her creeping authoritarianism, and now they have extra fuel for their fire: a controversial overhaul...
View ArticleKurdish militants begin historic Turkey withdrawal
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Reaci Caner was just 5-years-old when he saw, from his window, Turkish soldiers humiliate his father, grandfather and other village men just because they were Kurdish.The soldiers...
View ArticleAt Kerry-Putin meeting, US-Russia relations thaw — a little
Secretary of State John Kerry huddled in the Kremlin for several hours with President Vladimir Putin Tuesday, in what US officials described as an effort to "intensify" US-Russia dialogue and inject...
View ArticleFor Amanda Berry and other Cleveland victims, recovery begins with patience
After a decade of being held captive in a Cleveland home, three women freed Monday night face a healing process that will not be easy or happen overnight, say experts.In 10 years, the world has...
View ArticleSexual assault in military: Pentagon report, scandal deal a double blow
News that the Pentagon was facing yet another sexual assault scandal broke, almost incredibly, on the eve of the release of a Defense Department-wide report Tuesday showing that instances of the crime...
View ArticleKline becomes top booster for GOP labor bill
WASHINGTON — Minnesota U.S. Rep. John Kline has spent much of the past two weeks as the top salesman for the House GOP’s big legislative push, a bill to allow private employees to take paid vacation...
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Rural Minnesotans optimistic but worried about economy, Blandin study finds
CC/Flickr/Jimmy EmersonThe need for high-quality jobs continues to be the top priority for 36 percent of rural Minnesotans — more than twice as important as education to them.A new study finds that...
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The Mobile Shanty, a community fixture, leads the May Day way
MinnPost illustration by Andy SturdevantMainly, the May Day Parade shows off the deeply weird streak of cross-cultural populism that’s been South Minneapolis’ calling card since at least the...
View ArticleTraversing the rocky educational landscape? These articles and sites will help
If you’re anything like me, you deal with the onslaught of interesting, provocative food for thought out there on Ye Olde Internet by opening browser after browser, trying to not lose track of all of...
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What makes people attached to a city?
"Stop talking about your weather. People get that it's cold here."The command came from Katherine Loflin, a placemaking expert. Her audience, a batch of business leaders gathered together by the...
View ArticleChris Kluwe’s farewell musical moment turns into a tribal, cathartic event
“I’m gonna sing on this one — don’t judge me. It’s not my fault, I was born with this voice,” Chris Kluwe told a couple hundred people packed into Cause nightclub in Minneapolis Tuesday night at the...
View ArticleMinnesota exports up slightly to $20.6 billion in 2012, breaking annual record
Minnesota's exports of agricultural, mining and manufactured products rose 1.2 percent in 2012, to $20.6 billion. That's a record for the state, according to Department of Employment and Economic...
View ArticleDelaware legalizes same-sex marriage
By a 12-9 vote (what an adorably small Senate that is) the state Senate of Delaware yesterday approved a bill legalizing same sex marriage.The House had already passed the bill and Gov. Jack Markell...
View ArticleKim Rubin, Bachmann's scheduler and office manager, profiled in Roll Call
Kim Rubin, the scheduler and office manager who's worked for Michele Bachmann since the congresswoman was elected in 2006, says she's not bothered by the constant action in the high-profile...
View ArticleIce on lakes could mean river angling for Governor's Fishing Opener in Park...
The long-lasting ice is finally receding on lakes near Park Rapids, where Gov. Mark Dayton will cast a line Saturday in the Governor's Fishing Opener (GFO).Officials there are hopeful that the Fish...
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