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The University of Minnesota is the latest public body to make a mess with multiple beverage-marketing deals. The U of M has canceled a contract with Red Bull because the energy-drink company’s on-campus ads conflicted with the university’s separate, exclusive contract with Coke. Last year it was the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board that couldn’t [...]

We crossed a line in the turf this month when the publicly owned place where the Minnesota Vikings (alone, now) play football was renamed “Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.” Let the re-branding of one of Minnesota’s greatest statesmen begin. 

Updated: The University of Minnesota marching band forms the corporate logo of TCF Bank on the field at the university’s new TCF Bank Stadium in a promotional video released by the university today.

How long would you need to read a phone book … or its legislative equivalent? Two Minnesota Democrats have signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking that bills in Congress be posted online a minimum of 72 hours before a vote. The letter backs a pending resolution that already counts the state’s congressional [...]

Saturday night, sports fans filling the new TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota can enjoy some good old-fashioned logo-spotting the way it was meant to be — back on campus and under the stars. You can help Goldy Gopher do a spot check to see if the University of Minnesota is fulfilling its [...]

Attendance at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair is on the razor’s edge of setting an all-time record today. With 1.47 million passing the gates as of Saturday, officials said 300,000 more people Sunday and Monday would break 2001’s total. U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and her blood brothers could hold a town hall in the grandstand [...]

“We can’t let things get out of control from the start,” say University of Minnesota police, who are doubling their ranks for the first football game at new TCF Bank Stadium. They’re modeling methods on what Ohio State University cops did after home games led to mini-riots — a phenomenon the U has seen after hockey wins. [...]

A week after Gov. Pawlenty announced plans to unallot local-government aid, cities and counties are starting to name new cuts they might make on top of ones made last December. In Owatonna, it’s fireworks and the community band. In Bemidji, it’s liquor store management and community development. In Kandiyohi County, they’re weighing furloughs and pay freezes but wary [...]

When the University of Minnesota Board of Regents meets Dec. 12 to decide whether to allow wine and beer sales at TCF Bank Stadium, they’ll have a piece of news to consider: the alcohol-enabled public sex act in a Metrodome bathroom stall that drew a crowd during the Minnesota Gophers 55-0 football loss to the Iowa Hawkeyes last weekend.
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Neighborhoods around the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus form a kind of Mitigation City: the mammoth TCF Bank Stadium and Central Corridor light rail transit (LRT) projects both set aside sizable sums to mitigate negative impacts there. Then this month, just as the stadium mitigation money begins to flow and LRT mitigation pledges get [...]