In Senate, emotional appeal to restore 'heart and soul' of Voting Rights Act
Rep. John Lewis (D) of Georgia, an icon of the civil rights movement, urged members of theSenate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to quickly restore a key section of the Voting Rights Act that recently...
View ArticleObamacare to slash premiums in New York. Was Obama right all along?
One of the centerpieces of Obamacare bloomed Wednesday when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced the new state-run insurance exchange would cut costs by more than half. State regulators have just...
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Wells Fargo, Target among 10 'most generous' companies in U.S.
REUTERS/Shannon StapletonWells Fargo & Company and Target Corporation ranked highly on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s recently released list of Fortune 500 companies that donated the most cash in...
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Hate mosquitoes? Avoid beer!
Creative Commons/Chris CottermanScientists have identified several factors that appear to play a role in making certain individuals more tasty to mosquitoes, including your choice of drinking beverage...
View ArticleGov. Dayton and 14 other governors urge House leaders to approve immigration...
Gov. Mark Dayton and 14 other governors sent a letter this week to U.S. House leaders, urging them to adopt immigration reform.The U.S. Senate has passed a bill, but the issue languishes in the...
View ArticleIn praise of fields
Macaroni Everyone loves the ocean. Most people love the woods. Some people, including me, love the high deserts of the American Southwest. But how many people love the ordinary midwestern fields?If...
View ArticleIf bear 'research' justifies his privileges, Lynn Rogers might show us the...
Motivated by fairness, and fortified by a quantity of iced coffee, I spent a fair portion of yesterday afternoon perusing Permit Perspectives, the 82-page rebuttal document that Lynn Rogers has...
View ArticleSt. Paul's Landmark Center to get $3.6 million facelift over next two years
Landmark Center in St. Paul — completed in 1902 — will get a facelift over the next two years, with restoration of the two soaring towers and preservation-approved tuck-pointing of the masonry...
View ArticleMinnesota unemployment rate falls to 5.2%, lowest since 2008
Minnesota's unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent in June, the lowest it's been since May 2008.Last month the state rate was 5.3 percent.But the report from the state Department of Employment and...
View ArticleMass wedding ceremony planned in Clay County at midnight Aug. 1
A mass wedding ceremony is planned for midnight Aug. 1 in Moorhead, for couples wanting to marry as soon as same-sex marriage becomes legal in Minnesota.Couples, same sex or not, must sign up in...
View ArticleMinnesota must address agricultural pollution of our waters
Last fall, I had to give a presentation on water quality in my state as part of my environmental policy and regulation class. I knew very little about how water bodies are regulated and protected, but...
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Generation Next should be more inclusive and make better use of 'beat the...
If the Twin Cities is going to make substantial, long-term progress on reducing achievement gaps, we need to make better use of “beat the odds” schools, and be more inclusive than Generation Next has...
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City and Saints kick in to cover extra cost for Lowertown stadium
The cash has been scraped together … again … for the Saints stadium in downtown St. Paul. Tim Nelson at MPR writes, “The $54 million project ballooned by $8.8 million this summer when experts...
View ArticleSt. Paul and Saints baseball team say they've solved $9 million problem
St. Paul officials say they've solved the $9 million problem with the new St. Paul Saints ballpark.The city will come up with $8 million more and the minor league Saints team will pay and additional $1...
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On the news-conference trail with Cam Winton
MinnPost photo by Karen BorosCam Winton spoke to reporters outside Block E on Thursday.Cam Winton stood in a pothole on a fine spring day and told reporters that Minneapolis needs to take better care...
View ArticleIn birthing rooms, Bolivia sees way to cut maternal deaths
When Gregoria Vilca went into labor, she didn't want to go to the hospital, despite knowing the dangers that can come with childbirth. As a traditional healer in her community, Ms. Vilca had seen many...
View ArticleDid West ignore rape charges related to Ethiopia land grab?
The US and British governments are “turning a blind eye” to human rights abuses carried out to force Ethiopian nomads off their land so that it can be leased to foreign farming companies, a new report...
View ArticleFrontier Economy: With a boom on the line, Yangon's workers fight for rights
YANGON, Myanmar — In the back of the Sanchaung Township courthouse, where bureaucrats clack away on aging typewriters, a short dirt path leads to the jail.Behind wooden bars sit three young labor...
View ArticleKidnappings expose Mexico City's dark criminal underbelly
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Eight weeks on, Mexico City police apparently have few good leads into the daylight kidnapping of a dozen young men and women from an after-hours bar a few blocks from both the US...
View ArticleFeds target 'stand your ground' laws, but what can they do?
Picking up on rumbles of frustration, even outrage, about the George Zimmerman verdict, top US officials are insisting that America, and perhaps its federal government, need to take action to honor the...
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