In a move set into motion by a planeload of passengers’ overnight stay on the tarmac at Rochester Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the U.S. Transportation Department has ordered airlines to limit such runway waits to three hours.
The Minneapolis City Council voted on Friday to denounce Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, which would jail LGBT people in that country and impose severe penalties for allies who work for LGBT rights. The first incarnation of the bill…
Minneapolis residents have to look to the neighborhood-association president level to find an elected chief executive who represents them and might actually be at the office today.
What is it about riding a bike under a baseball stadium that Tom Coburn and John McCain don’t understand? The senators decried federal stimulus spending to extend the Cedar Lake Bike Trail into downtown Minneapolis,…
Supporters of R.T. Rybak for governor shouldn’t think they’re at the wrong place Sunday just because the sign outside says “R.T. Ryback Campaign Kickoff.”
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will kick off his gubernatorial campaign Sunday at Dinkytown’s Varsity Theater. Rybak announced the event via Facebook, but not all his 5,000-plus Facebook friends and supporters can come. His chosen venue has a…
Stymied by citizen resistance, the operator of Hennepin County’s incinerator in downtown Minneapolis tried in vain to get the state’s OK to burn more trash via an administrative end-run around a public hearing. The current permit requires public input for any change, state officials said.
Unsealed court documents have unleashed a wave of press about an American ring allied with a terror group in Somalia. Minneapolis “is the center of it,” the local FBI head tells the AP. “Now we should…
Minnesota’s End the Fed group has something to celebrate Sunday as they march on the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s effort to audit the Fed passed in the House Financial Services Committee last Thursday.
Starting in 1947, thousands of young families have lived on four Southeast Minneapolis city blocks, in housing provided by the University of Minnesota. But it wasn’t until last year that anyone raised the alarm that the land many of those families have called home appears to be a toxic waste dump.
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