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The Twin Cities’ twin airport terminals, currently named for aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, will be re-christened Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 if a plan approved today by a Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) committee goes forward. That — and the $2.2 million new signs would cost — has inspired online mockery aplenty.

As we reported last week, the bathroom stall made famous by former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig may not be for sale, but it looks like the airport it’s in soon could be. An effort to privatize the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is ready for takeoff in the new session of the state Legislature. At the same [...]

Sorry, but it turns out that, just as you can’t buy Barack Obama’s seat in the U.S. Senate, you can’t buy the bathroom stall where U.S. Sen. Larry Craig sat or stood and tapped his foot in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The agency that runs the airport refused an apparently serious offer to buy the men’s room stall made famous by Craig’s 2007 conviction for disorderly conduct in a sex-solicitation sting operation by the airport police.

When attorneys from US Airways and the Metropolitan Airports Commission show up at a Minneapolis court to defend their clients, who are sued by six Muslim imams, they likely will have a lot of company.

At least two other Minneapolis attorneys would like to be in that courtroom to defend clients who are identified only as [...]

The six Muslim imams who were taken off a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport have filed on Monday a discrimination lawsuit against the airline and the Metropolitan Airports Commission, alleging they were humiliated and treated like criminals.

At a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, imam Didmar Faja said some of the [...]

Taxi drivers who refuse to transport alcohol-toting customers will face a suspension of their licenses, according to a new proposal put forward to the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) on Wednesday.

Airport staff want a public hearing on the new policy, which calls for a 30-day suspension of licenses upon the first offense and two years on [...]