State Rep. Debra Hilstrom will seek DFL endorsement for secretary of state
State Rep. Debra Hilstrom, a DFLer from Brooklyn Center, has announced that she'll seek the endorsement in the secretary of state's race.Incumbent DFL Mark Ritchie announced June 4 that he won't seek...
View ArticleMN Blog Cabin Roundup, 6/21
Legislators defending gay marriage vote should ask 'What Would Wellstone Do?'from Wry Wing Politics by Joe LovelandThe late Senator Paul Wellstone was much more liberal than the majority of his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Social connectedness: Its extraordinary value is spread among all involved
CC/Flickr/Marshall AstorSocial-support networks are built over time, potluck by potluck, committee by committee, park cleanup by park cleanup.Three of my friends have brain cancer. Sarah was diagnosed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Regina Vong's family businesses: a quintessentially American story
When the Royal Bangkok restaurant opened in January at 315 University Ave. in St. Paul, it hadn’t been in business more than a few weeks when the building that housed it was condemned by the city.It...
View ArticleJapan to give nuclear power another chance
Japan appears poised to give nuclear power another chance, just over two years after the reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant forced it to rethink its enthusiasm for atomic...
View ArticleRussia: Sergei Magnitsky is a dead man guilty
A Moscow court has taken the historic and unusual step of convicting a dead man — the late Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer believed to have uncovered evidence of mass state-sponsored theft before he...
View ArticleBrazil uprising: carnival's over, everyone
SAO PAULO, Brazil — When millions of Brazilians took to the streets last month in nationwide protest against everything from corruption to overpriced bus fares to a despised political class, the...
View ArticleWith robots, science kits, wilderness, redesigned summer school is acquiring...
With its deadly dull remedial drills and endless study-hall flavor, summer school is essentially punishment for a lackluster performance during the regular year, right?Wrong. Forget everything you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
House to vote on half a farm bill Thursday
WASHINGTON — Democrats say a Republican effort to split food stamp funding from the federal farm bill is going to be just that: a Republican effort.The House is expected to vote on the agriculture...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GOP begins long immigration reform process, focusing on border security
WASHINGTON — As immigration reform moves to the House, here are about the only things we know for sure about its path forward: The Senate bill isn’t coming up, the process is going to take a while, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U President Kaler: 'China trip enhances reputation of the University and...
I was 13 time zones away from Minnesota. I needed to get to Beijing by 5 p.m. for an important meeting, but my early morning flight from Shanghai was canceled. It led to a five-hour delay, late luggage...
View ArticleFriends again? Saudi Arabia, UAE jump in to aid Egypt
As the turmoil in Egypt continues after last week’s military ousting of President Mohamed Morsi, the interim government is getting a helping hand from the Gulf monarchies.Saudi Arabia, the United Arab...
View ArticleTurks still protesting as international media moves on
Clashes between Turkish riot police and anti-government protestors have burned on for more than a month, leaving the heart of Istanbul choked in clouds of tear gas and wet from the spray of water...
View ArticleTexas House passes abortion law: why it matters beyond Lone Star State
There’s nothing small or shy about Texas. And so it was Wednesday, when the state House of Representatives passed a bill containing major new restrictions on abortion.Crowds cheered and jeered for both...
View ArticleBoston Marathon bombing suspect pleads 'not guilty,' shows no remorse
In a mild Russian accent, he said “not guilty” at least six times. With those words, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev punctuated his first appearance in a federal courthouse since being accused of carrying out a...
View ArticleModern medical abortions not associated with later preterm births, study finds
A new study from Britain may help end a long-running dispute about whether having an abortion raises a woman’s risk of delivering a baby prematurely (before 37 weeks of gestation) during subsequent...
View ArticleMinnesota Republicans say extra state revenue shows no tax increase was needed
After Wednesday's news that Minnesota collected $463 million more in revenue than projected for the fiscal year, state House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt said Republicans who controlled the Legislature...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Minnesota Zoo welcomes two bongo calves to Africa exhibit
The Minnesota Zoo welcomed two additions to its Africa exhibit last month: two bongo calves who were born in June. The bongo is a kind of antelope native to the dense forests of Central Africa. These...
View ArticleU of M cellist renders climate data as music to our ears, and it's lovely
Conveying the central warming trend in global temperature is necessarily a tradeoff between complexity and condensation, especially if the rendering is graphical, as in the famous hockey stick. There...
View ArticleRep. Huelskamp: Trusting Obama on border security is like trusting Clinton...
Excellent aggregator Taegan Goddard of "Political Wire"passes along his pick for "Tweet of the Day."It comes from Kansas Republican Congressman Tim Huelskamp, and it goes like this:"Most House Rs agree...
View Article