Paul Ryan back here; Biden visits Superior
I think he’d be of more use in Colorado … but Tom Scheck of MPR says: “Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee for Vice President, will campaign in Minnesota on Sunday. The Romney campaign is sending out an...
View ArticleMinneapolis approves $392,500 settlement with former cop over invasion of...
A former police officer — who accused cops from across the Twin Cities of invasion of privacy when they inappropriately accessed her driver’s license information — will receive $392,500 from...
View ArticleMN Blog Cabin Roundup, 11/2
Beyond Park and Portlandfrom streets.mn by Brendon SlotterbackRather than [build Twin Cities bicycle infrastructure] piecemeal or opportunistically once a repaving project pops up, we should begin...
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Local nonprofits redefine aid to Africa
“Often in nonprofits, we think of ourselves as the experts," says Daniel Wordsworth, president and CEO of the American Refugee Committee (ARC), a Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization that provides...
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Voting amendment sides disagree on latest poll trends of support
A coalition of groups opposing the proposed voting amendment released an internal poll Friday showing weakening support for the ballot question as get-out-the-vote efforts dominate the remaining days...
View ArticleMinnesota GOP says $550,000 contribution to the DFL is illegal
The Republican Party of Minnesota, investigated in the past for its contributions and accounting methods, says it will file a complaint against the Minnesota DFL State Central Committee challenging...
View ArticleMinnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe quits Pioneer Press blog after marriage...
Saturday, the St. Paul Pioneer Press became the first Minnesota paper to editorialize for "Vote Yes" on Minnesota's marriage amendment.Oh, sure, the editorial states "The Pioneer Press is not endorsing...
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How to end the war on walkers in the Twin Cities
I love walking — maybe because it's the only athletic activity that I do semi-competently.My favorite stamping grounds are three of the city lakes (Harriet, Calhoun and Isles) and the Heritage Walk —...
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Home-grown Skyline Exhibits is one of world’s largest trade-show players
Courtesy of Skyline ExhibitsWorkers at Skyline Exhibits assemble a trade show exhibit booth in the staging area at the company’s Eagan headquarters.Even in the digital age, people still like to do...
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The lockout: management’s latest weapon
Music-loving and hockey-loving Minnesotans find themselves holding tickets to nonevents these days. The management of the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, along with the...
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National attention for Viking Kluwe's split from Pioneer Press
Mess with the Viking and you get stuck with the horns … . In addition to David Brauer here, the PiPress took some merciless national ripping after Vikings punter Chris Kluwe quit his blog in protest of...
View ArticleNew pope named for Egypt's embattled Coptic Christians
Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church chose a new pope today, putting a new leader at the helm of Egypt's largest Christian sect at a time of increasing difficulty for the minority.After a three-and-a-half...
View ArticleSandinista sleepaway camp holds the line in Nicaragua-Costa Rica border dispute
HARBOUR HEAD, Nicaragua — Deep in the jungle, on a marshy riverbank under dispute with Costa Rica, the Nicaraguan government has created a sleepaway camp for teenagers loyal to President Daniel...
View ArticleUN human rights worker expelled in South Sudan
South Sudanese officials decided to expel a United Nations human rights staffer on Sunday, in a decision that the international governing body has roundly condemned.South Sudanese authorities justified...
View ArticleWhy the Palestinian president shocked his people over 'right of return'
Mahmoud Abbas touched off a storm of debate in the Middle East over the weekend after the Palestinian president seemingly conceded the "right of return" for Palestinian refugees, a symbolically loaded...
View ArticleIllegal immigration: why eyes will be on Maryland this Election Day
Immigrant advocates hope the Maryland DREAM Act could help prime Washington’s discussion of immigration policy, a topic both President Obama and Mitt Romney say they want to address if they win the...
View ArticleWill China be forced to change its secretive leadership process?
Never again, after this week’s party congress, will China’s ruling Communist Party select its top members through the secretive, confusing, and mistrustful conversations in smoky back rooms that have...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy blows climate change back onto the presidential campaign
Until last week, climate change was pretty much a dormant issue in the presidential campaign.Except for environmental activists, hardly anybody was talking about it – certainly neither of the...
View ArticleStill perplexed? One last primer on the marriage amendment
Incredible though it seems following $15 million worth of campaigning over 18 months, there’s still a broad swath of the Minnesota electorate that confesses to finding the proposal to amend the state...
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With so many fact-checkers, why are politicians lying more and more?
Washington PostGlenn KesslerGlenn Kessler, who writes the “Fact Checker” column for the Washington Post, put up a compendium of his best/worst hits of the campaign season Sunday by creating a bunch of...
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