Obama skeet shooting: NRA says it's a ploy to confiscate guns
That photo of President Obama firing a shotgun continues to generate comment and controversy just as he’s about to leave Washington to promote his ideas about improving gun safety.While some conspiracy...
View ArticleKen Martin elected to second term as DFL Party chair
Ken Martin was re-elected Saturday to a second two-year term as Minnesota DFL Party chair.He was first elected in 2011, when Republicans controlled the state House and state Senate. In the last...
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Dayton, Franken, Kluwe scheduled to appear at MinnRoast 2013
Gov. Mark Dayton, Sen. Al Franken and Vikings punter Chris Kluwe don’t often appear in the same sentence, but they’re all scheduled to appear in MinnRoast 2013.Dayton is returning for his third...
View ArticleBonus Election Preview: 19A
LeftMN html, body { height: 100%; /*margin: 0; padding: 0;*/ } #map_canvas { height: 100%; } @media print { html, body { height: auto; } #map_canvas { height: 550px; } } Minnesota House District 19A...
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Obama's visit: What Minnesota offers to the debate on gun violence
President Barack Obama brings his campaign to curb gun violence to Minnesota today, and the North Star state offers valuable lessons for a nation in the midst of a critical public debate. If the...
View ArticleFrank Vennes and the Petters Ponzi scheme: a long, mysterious tale
One of the curious features of the Ponzi scheme is that upon its collapse or the threat thereof, its victims often come to the defense of the fraudster. The real evildoer, they may conclude, is a...
View ArticleMayors' report on mass shootings is grim but essential reading
Nationally, there have been 43 mass shootings in 25 states over the past four years (January 2009 – January 2013), which tragically equates to almost one per month, according to a report released...
View ArticleFour vie to replace Rochester city council president, who'd died before...
Four candidates now plan to run for Rochester City Council president in a special election Mar. 19.In November, city voters re-elected Dennis Hanson to the position, even though Hanson had died months...
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City of Lakes Loppet 2013: Advanced men's ice-cycle loppet
YouTube user Noren5609 stood out with camera in temperatures that never got too far into the teens to bring you highlights of Penn Cycle's 2013 Ice-cycle Loppet, part of the 2013 City of Lakes Loppet...
View ArticleLatest attempt to manipulate Electoral College vote isn’t new
The idea that the Republican-controlled state governments of six states, led by Virginia, might rejigger the way those states award Electoral College votes (in what would be a blatant attempt to...
View ArticleNew city administrator chosen in Vadnais Heights
Kevin Watson of Junction City, Ore., has been selected to be Vadnais Heights city administrator.He'll replace Gerry Urban, who worked for the city for 45 years, and held the top job for 35 years.The...
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Obama launches gun-control road show in Minneapolis
Asking why President Obama was coming to Minnesota to talk about gun control, Peter Grier of the Christian Science Monitor writes: “The short answer is that Minnesota is a reliably blue state, and...
View ArticleObama visit highlights 'common sense' steps to reduce gun violence
During his quick Minneapolis stop Monday, President Obama singled out city efforts in working to reduce gun violenceThe president met with a group of politicians, police officers and mental health and...
View ArticleAdvocates fight over background check statistic
WASHINGTON — Speaking on gun violence in Minneapolis Monday, President Obama sounded a refrain similar to those coming from gun control proponents: Enacting a system of expanded background checks on...
View ArticleObama urges confirmation of B. Todd Jones as ATF chief
Embattled B. Todd Jones, Minnesota’s U.S. attorney and the acting director of the Bureau of Alchohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, got a rare round of enthusiastic applause Monday during President...
View ArticleCybersecurity: how preemptive cyberwar is entering the nation's arsenal
A formal, three-year legal and policy review of US cyberweapons that concluded last fall has effectively cleared their use alongside other weapons systems in the US arsenal, a stamp of approval that...
View ArticlePakistan's 'Terror Tax'
KARACHI, Pakistan — In November, armed men from the Pakistani Taliban showed up in front of Ali Hussain’s factory, asking for money in exchange for protection.But Hussain didn’t have the $100,000 these...
View ArticleNew hurdle for nuclear talks: Iran's presidential politics
After an eight-month hiatus of high-level nuclear diplomacy, Iran and world powers are poised to resume talks later this month in Kazakhstan.One hurdle has been overcome: The runup to the...
View ArticleGov. Cuomo's grand plan post-Sandy: give some of New York back to nature
Following through on his post-Sandy assessment that protecting New York state from coastal flooding would be a “massive undertaking,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is proposing the return of some flood-prone...
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Mary Logue's new mystery throws the book at crime
Things are very quiet in the Logue-Hautman house. In one room, Mary Logue is working on her mystery novels; in another room, Pete Hautman is writing young-adult fiction.“We don’t talk to each other...
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