Swedish royalty to visit the Governor's Residence Saturday morning
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden are in Minnesota this weekend, attending today's the 150th anniversary celebrations at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.On Saturday morning,...
View ArticleRemember Ralph Reed? He's back — and helping Minnesota marriage amendment...
Remember Ralph Reed, the driving force behind the Christian Coalition? He’s back, and he’s working cleverly and quietly on the campaign to insert an amendment into the Minnesota Constitution banning...
View ArticleGov. Dayton visits fire-damaged Karlstad and kicks off Thief River Falls...
Gov. Mark Dayton is in northwest Minnesota today, first stopping in Karlstad, near the Canadian and North Dakota borders, where wildfires caused considerable damage this week.The Grand Forks Herald...
View ArticleBehind the latest headline hype about menopausal hormones
There was a lot of media coverage Wednesday about new findings regarding menopausal hormone therapy. “Menopause Therapy Found Less Risky,” declared one headline. "Hormone Study May Reassure Women,”...
View ArticleLongtime Republican legislator K.J. McDonald has died in Watertown
K.J. McDonald, who served seven terms in the state House and was Watertown mayor, has died at age 81.He had been undergoing treatment for metatastic melanoma after a brain tumor was discovered last...
View ArticleDeclaring victory and retreating: Some difficult questions about Afghanistan
If you want to argue in favor of “American exceptionalism,” better to skip over the history of the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. The country has not granted us an easement on the lessons of history....
View ArticleFour in state show meningitis symptoms
Now they’re talking about 1,000 Minnesotans affected by that meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroids. Lorna Benson at MPR says: “The Minnesota Department of Health estimates that as many as...
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MN Blog Cabin Roundup, 10/5
Don't believe the hypefrom Mr. Dilettante's Neighborhood by Mark HeuringI've been noticing a lot of triumphalism on the Right today, following the shaky performance of President Obama in yesterday's...
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Twin Cities crowdfunding: A tale of three Kickstarts
Last month, The Line ran a nationally focused story on the spread of crowdfunding via sites like Kickstarter — a story that included an account of QONQR, a strategy game developed locally. Reporter...
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Minneapolis Public School Board Candidate Forum
10/25/2012 7:30pm - 9:00pm Jefferson Community School1200 West 26th Street, MinneapolisClick here for more information. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters Minneapolis, MinnPost, MinnCAN,...
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Reporter who wrote about life as undocumented immigrant arrested in Minnesota
Image from DefineAmerican videoJose Antonio VargasReporter Jose Vargas was arrested Friday morning and charged with driving without a valid driver’s license, a misdemeanor.(Update: A Minnesota State...
View ArticleSkrowaczewski to lead Minnesota Orchestra musicians in opening night concert
Minnesota Orchestra clarinetist Tim Zavadil dropped a bomb on Friday’s “Almanac,” announcing that the musicians will hold a concert on Oct. 18 at the Convention Center – and that Stanislaw...
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‘Driving Change’ panel: Vieth a ‘boundary spanner’
MinnPost has assembled a panel of leadership experts and scholars, who are rotating in commenting on each of the examples of leadership profiled in our series, "Driving Change: A Lens on Leadership."...
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The Advocate: Victor Vieth and the fight to end child abuse
While covering important events in our civic and cultural life, journalists typically focus on facts, controversies, issues and their impact. They rarely look through the lens of understanding leaders...
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Why the same two parties dominate our two-party system
One in a series of articles. You can read the whole series here.I’ve cited it a few times before, but I still get a smile out of what Minnesota political analyst Wy Spano once told me was his favorite...
View ArticleErdrich, two other Minnesotans up for National Book Awards
Louise Erdrich was only one of three Minnesota authors nominated for the National Book Awards. Marianne Combs at MPR writes: “Erdrich is nominated for her book The Round House, which was just published...
View ArticleIsrael's 'unchallengeable' Netanyahu calls elections at prime moment
Unlike President Obama, who has no control over when he gets to ask American voters if they would like him to stay on for another term, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can seek reelection...
View ArticleSupreme Court: In affirmative action arguments, conservative bloc seems united
The justices of the US Supreme Court split sharply on Wednesday over whether to approve the use of racial preferences for admission to the University of Texas at Austin.As in prior cases dealing with...
View ArticleObama administration spares LGBT couples with family ties
Pablo Garcia has been in the United States illegally since 1992, a year after he met the love of his life in his native Venezuela.Garcia married his long-term partner, Santiago Ortiz, in Connecticut...
View ArticlePutin squeezes opposition ever harder
Russians in a number of regions go the polls on Sunday to elect governors, mayors and provincial legislatures in what was once seen as a critical test for the opposition. Its leaders had hoped at least...
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