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A proposal floated May 21 to put ads for Lowe’s home-improvement chain in Minneapolis parks passed the full park board Wednesday, despite commissioners’ stated misgivings about the signs. The two banners, along with 12-by-17 inch indoor signs at other parks, are part of a deal in which Lowe’s promises to provide certain city parks with [...]

Claiming that a certain state or country is “the Saudi Arabia of” wind, solar, biomass or some other form of renewable energy is so three months ago.

Back in March, a Minnesota Monitor survey found the phrase becoming so commonplace it bordered on cliche. The list of places that various media outlets had recently nicknamed “The [...]

The titanic shoving match between the University of Minnesota and the Metropolitan Council over the route of the Central Corridor light-rail line appears settled: the trains will run down Washington Avenue through the U of M’s East Bank campus.  Now push is coming to shove over design details of the route along University Avenue.

At one [...]

Thousands of guns seized by New York City cops are destroyed and recycled as pipes, fences or appliances, among other purposes, reports the New York Times. It turns out that guns taken into police custody right here meet a similar fate, according to Sgt. Bill Palmer of the Minneapolis Police Department — unless, of course, [...]

A Minneapolis Public Works Department investigation into the source of a mysterious milky-white substance that appeared in Lake Calhoun April 29 has led to the discovery of an illegal sewer line from the swimming pool of the private Minikahda Club.
“This is an illegal and undocumented sewer connection,” Bradley J. Blackhawk, the city’s chief inspector for [...]

The Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based group, is conducting a comprehensive assessment of the Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) internal affairs procedures. It’ll evaluate the department’s process for investigating police misconduct and complaints; identify strengths and weaknesses, and make recommendations based on its findings, according to an MPD statement.

Additionally, public feedback will be incorporated [...]

Five out of six options the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is considering for expanding Highway 41 in the southwestern Twin Cities metro area would wipe out a handful of manufactured home parks. And the sixth isn’t much better: It would disturb the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge near Bloomington.

Though it won’t be built for [...]

“Where was Al?” That’s the question TPT’s Mary Lahammer is

The Highway 43 bridge over the Mississippi River at Winona, Minn., became the latest symbol of Minnesota’s decaying infrastructure June 3 when the state Department of Transportation ordered it closed for at least six weeks due to possibly debilitating rust and corrosion. But the bridge was already a state symbol: Only 18 days before the [...]

The Norwegian consulate in Minneapolis and the Sons of Norway, the Minneapolis-based international fraternal organization, say they aren’t aware of any interaction over the weekend between two prominent Norwegian-Americans: Walter Mondale and Karl Rove.

Rove, architect of what former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan calls the administration’s “permanent campaign,” was in Rochester, Minn., to speak at [...]