The stem cell bill offered at the Minnesota Legislature this year, which would have allowed the University of Minnesota to use state funds to conduct research on embryonic stem cells, was authored by a Democrat and doctor…
Bus windows and skyways get covered in ads; are public parks next? Minneapolis taxpayers could soon be greeted at their city parks by banners advertising a national home improvement chain that has no stores in the…
The current state of the Central Corridor light rail transit debate: Mix half-baked engineering with overheated funding threats and watch as public opinion congeals around a premature choice. Both dailies ran editorials Sunday extolling an at-grade Washington…
Sandy Colvin Roy, chair of the Minneapolis City Council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee, was rattling off the next agenda item at the committee’s meeting last week, when a familiar name brought her up short: Donald Fraser…
Thursday’s vanishing post on a Minneapolis City Council member’s blog highlights the hazards of online ruminations within a face-to-face City Hall culture that hasn’t yet adapted to the ways of the Web. On Tuesday, Council Member…
Much has been made of America’s belt-tightening due to the 8 percent increase in grocery bills this year caused by rising food costs. There are stories about the recession diet. Stories about middle-class Americans
In late March, the FBI warned of the newest form of identity theft: house stealing. The crime often works like this: A group or an individual finds a vacant home. They look up the deed…
If elected officials hang around a public chamber with intent to take action but don’t actually decide anything, can they be guilty of governing?
Who “lurks” and with what intent…
Public defenders, the lawyers appointed to represent the poorest Minnesotans in criminal court, have taken another budget cut this year. The Board of Public Defense will take a $1.5…
To curb youth violence throughout the warmer months, Minneapolis and Hennepin County officials announced Tuesday that they would get tougher on children who are found carrying BB guns or other replica firearms, as well as…
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