The ACLU of Minnesota issued a travel alert Wednesday for Minnesotans planning to travel to Arizona over the July 4 weekend. It issued the advisory in response to Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070, which directs police to check citizenship…
Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s interview on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show included a segment on “bong water,” an issue that sprang up at the Minnesota Legislature this spring after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that bong water could be considered…
After several failed attempts in past sessions, the Minnesota Legislature appears poised to ban a little known but psychedelic plant called salvia divinorum. Bills that would penalize those who sell or possess the herb have moved through House and Senate committees and now await floor votes in both chambers. And while law enforcement officials push to expand the drug war, critics say this is an opportunity to enact sensible policies not create more criminals.
Advocates of legalizing medical marijuana for chronically and terminally ill patients have decided to scale back their campaign to pass such legislation this year because of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s veto pen. In 2009, both chambers at the Capitol…
“Homosexuality is against the law in the United States,” says Bradlee Dean, the head of the “punk rock” ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, which brings its overtly religious message to public schools at…
Sharon Lubinski was set to be sworn in as U.S. Marshal Friday morning in Minneapolis.
The winter issue of Hennepin History magazine recounts a notorious Great Depression-era bank robbery in Minneapolis, with story lines seemingly ripped from today’s newspapers: A murderous attack on a street-corner business in a city so broke it
A video advocating for casino gambling at the state’s racetracks shows state Sen. Dick Day on the State Capitol steps, inside a horse barn, and behind his Senate office desk, all the while promoting the “racino” cause…
The Star Tribune started it, and now the newspaper has announced an end to the saga of the flat-screen TVs at the state facility for sex offenders at Moose Lake. The facility’s director has been reprimanded and…
As he packed for a trade trip to São Paulo, Brazil, Gov. Pawlenty issued an emergency executive order Friday creating a task force to find ways to preserve police, fire and emergency coverage through local shared-services arrangements. Left unsaid…
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