Foreign funding dries up for Latin American NGOs
Mónica Villota runs a small organization in Colombia’s troubled and violent Cauca region, helping farmers improve crop yields and their market access. The NGO, Esfera Azul (Blue Globe) also works to...
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People seem to ignore calorie data; would photos work better?
CC/Flickr/thisisbossiResearchers found that people provided with calorie information did not use it when making their subsequent food choices.Most of us are really bad at estimating the calories in the...
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Red Wing's 'Stone Age' started in 1870
Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society/Goodhue County Historical SocietyA low-slung "stone boat" is loaded with limestone and ready to be pulled away from a Red Wing quarry, c. 1890.Thanks to the...
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Coming up: FLOW Northside Arts Crawl
FLOW Northside Arts Crawl, now in its eighth year, has expanded from a one-day event to a full weekend, with preview events Friday and extended gallery hours Friday – Sunday. A non-juried, self-guided...
View ArticlePope Francis arrives in Brazil
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Pope Francis arrived in Rio de Janeiro Monday evening, greeted by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and thousands of pilgrims who lined the city's streets in anticipation of seeing...
View ArticlePoland's entrepreneurs reinvent the 'private operator' stigma
Part 1 of a two-part series on Poland's rising economyTomasz Kasprowicz received a PhD in economics in the US and then returned to his native Poland for a plum job as a consultant at McKinsey &...
View ArticleWhitey Bulger trial: 'Rifleman' Flemmi describes 'death house' murders
In his third day of testimony, Stephen “the Rifleman” Flemmi testified in gritty detail to a seemingly unending litany of murder and mayhem across South Boston in the 1980s, guided by gang leader James...
View ArticleHow will Obama defend secret NSA program in court? Letter offers clue
The Obama administration has filed what appears to be the first legal defense of the National Security Administration's dragnet of American phone data since Edward Snowden first leaked details to the...
View ArticleEU blacklists Hezbollah military
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Foreign ministers from the 28 European Union countries agreed Monday to add the military wing of Hezbollah to an EU blacklist of terrorist organizations, ending years of division...
View ArticleDetroit bankruptcy: The war shifts to the courts
Detroit's filing of a petition for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on Thursday marks just a skirmish in what is expected to be a prolonged legal battle between labor unions, bondholders, and state officials over...
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Mauled at news conference: Dayton peppered with questions about black bears
In all of his years in politics, Gov. Mark Dayton never figured to find himself caught in a bear trap.But there was the governor on Monday, smack dab in the middle of a situation that he never...
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Rosalie Wahl oversaw transformative changes in legal education
Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical SocietyJustice Rosalie WahlMy office happens to be in the place we call the Rosalie Wahl Legal Practice Center. Every day I walk past her portrait, she in judge’s...
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Ron McKinley's death 'a huge loss': 'It’s like taking away a bright light'
Ron McKinleyThe Twin Cities education, philanthropic and Native American communities lost a giant Sunday when Ron McKinley, 64, was killed in a motorcycle accident in northern Washington.During more...
View ArticleSorry Amy, I'm sticking with Hillary
mnpACT! Progressive Political Blog I still truly believe that Hillary Clinton should be the Democratic candidate in 2016. I also believe that she would be more of a transformative President than we...
View ArticleRybak among Dayton's four picks for Rochester's Destination Medical Center...
Gov. Mark Dayton has named his four choices to the Destination Medical Center Board, the oversight group for Rochester's huge Mayo Clinic expansion that will get $455 million in state funds over 20...
View ArticleHere's a cool new tool for tracing U.S. rivers to their sources and destinations
My parents were not outdoors people. Just as some people view skydiving as abandonment of a perfectly good airplane, my mom viewed camping, even trailer camping, as a pointless renunciation of...
View ArticleNate Silver says the White House is not a metronome
Many political scientists subscribe to a "thermostatic hypothesis" of the two-party system suggesting that if one political party gets too hot, it is bound to cool off and vice versa. In presidential...
View ArticleLightning strikes, so now there will be nine tall ships in Duluth
One of the 10 sailing ships scheduled to be in Duluth this weekend for the Tall Ships Festival has been scuttled from the lineup.The Halie & Matthew — 118-foot-long, two-masted gaff-rigged schooner...
View ArticleCommissioner Zelle to discuss Minnesota's underfunded transportation needs
Minnesota Transportation Commissioner Charles Zelle plans to hit the road to discuss the state's 20-year plan for transportation spending.The ECM newspapers note that Zelle has given his pitch to the...
View ArticleAgenda posted for Wednesday MnSure board meeting
The MnSure Board will meet Wednesday afternoon in St. Paul as it prepares the state's health-care insurance exchange for the Oct. 1 opening.The meeting is in the Skjegstad Conference Room at the...
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