There Once Was a Site Called MinnPost…

Minnpost to launch, zaniness to ensue: When it launches Nov. 8, Minnpost.com will have $1.1 million in the bank, plus over $100,000 in member donations, a roster of 50 freelancers, and — according to a recent press release — a whole lot of wackiness. Publisher Joel Kramer says former Strib columnist Al Sicherman will be soliciting “humorous creative entries” from readers. The first sample apparently borrows heavily from a recent City Pages Blotter entry: instead of reader-submitted limericks about Sen. Larry Craig’s bathroom bust, Sicherman asks for limericks about Craig’s induction into the Idaho Hall of Fame.

On the zoned Strib: Charlie Quimby writes that the Star Tribune’s West Metro edition isn’t as hyper-local as advertised.  Indeed, he says, it’s “more local and more west than, say, starvation in the Sudan or the results of Ontario’s provincial elections,” but of ten stories in the eight-page section, only one is relevant to the western suburbs, a piece on the debate over budget cuts in Eden Prairie.

Green blogs: In honor of yesterday’s Blog Action Day on the environment, Read/WriteWeb lists 35 environmental blogs you should be reading.

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