Never mind the bottles: It’s the tap water. You can forget whatever you’ve heard about the coming water wars — the water marketing wars are already here.
The Minneapolis City Council’s Transportation and Public Works…
A significant amount of attention has been paid to the anti-war protesters and liberal demonstrators headed for the Republican National Convention, but a potentially more disruptive group of political activists threatens…
While 33 robberies in the metro area since January might seem like a lot compared with some previous years, the statistic “isn’t alarming,” according to FBI spokesperson Paul McCabe. If robberies continue at their current pace, the…
Environmental advocacy groups are feeling positive at the close of the 2008 legislative season. This session saw the passage of funds for the Central Corridor light rail line; a new state park; and the Clean Water, Land and…
Gov. Tim Pawlenty put his veto pen to use 23 times during the 2008 legislative session, including eight bills in a two-day span. Most notable among these was his Feb. 22 veto of the transportation finance bill,…
In the 1990s, Bloomington successfully waded into the murky constitutional waters that swirl around questions of free speech in privately owned places that receive public funds. In the 1999 landmark ruling State v. Wicklund, the Minnesota…
Foreclosures in Minnesota rose by 68 percent in April over the same period last year, according to the latest RealtyTrac study. Minnesota saw 1,405 foreclosures and 38 Notice of Defaults in April. In the first…
Late Friday afternoon, a crowd assembled on a vibrant street corner in Minneapolis to protest the recent immigration raid of the Agriprocessor, Inc., meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa…
The Republican National Convention is creating some strange bedfellows. Earlier this week St. Paul Police Federation president Dave Titus described the planned parade route for protesters on the opening day of the convention as “a recipe…
Just in time for the weekend, Gov. Pawlenty has signed legislation giving the human-powered bars on wheels known as “pedal pubs” the same considerations as limos and party buses, making them…
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