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AM.MN: Guv hopefuls carless, sickened by sprawl, scared to bike

By Chris Steller | 01.26.10 | 8:15 am

am.mn logoLeslie Davis is the only candidate for governor who doesn’t own a car. It’s too dangerous for John Marty to bike 12 miles to work. Urban sprawl sickens and saddens Tom Rukavina. That’s what

AM.MN: Tribe’s HQ burns three weeks before groundbreaking on new one

By Chris Steller | 07.21.09 | 8:30 am

mn_amIn what the tribe terms an “ironic twist,” an Aug. 11 groundbreaking had already been set for a building to replace the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa government headquarters that burned to the ground Monday. The FBI…

In selling parkland to pay bills, mighty Duluth joins little Lilydale

By Chris Steller | 09.12.08 | 8:46 am

Recent headlines out of Duluth haven’t been pretty — except when they’ve been over pictures of the Tiffany window that the city may auction off to get out of a $6.5 million budget hole. City officials’ efforts to sell off another public asset — parkland along picturesque Park Point — puts Duluth in the same league as one of the Twin Cities metro area’s tiniest towns: little Lilydale, Minn.

Campaign Notebook: Results

By Joe Bodell | 11.07.07 | 7:45 am

The story today in Minnesota is the same as the national trend:  victory for progressive Democrats, whether against conservative Republicans or against Democrats seen as too moderate for their constituencies.

On a day when Democrats took over the state senate…