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State requires new environmental review for Hennepin trash burner

By Chris Steller | 01.14.10 | 6:15 pm

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is requiring a new environmental review of Hennepin County’s plans to burn more garbage at its downtown Minneapolis incinerator.

AM.MN: No sofa change left for you, Minnesota Vikings

By Chris Steller | 01.05.10 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoThe Minnesota Twins got the public to fund their ballpark back in the good old days, when Hennepin County residents were rolling in the sofa change that paid for Target Field via a new sales tax. Now the county…

Pollution agency won’t rule yet on petitions for Hennepin burner study

By Chris Steller | 10.08.09 | 12:18 pm

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) won’t take a position — yet — on whether to require a new environmental study before Hennepin County’s downtown Minneapolis incinerator can burn more trash, because the agency doesn’t have a pending application for the project.

Leslie Davis was right: Keeping burner’s stink out of ballpark will cost county

By Chris Steller | 01.30.09 | 3:41 am

Hennepin County commissioners learned Thursday that they’ll have to pay $500,000 to stop the stink from the county’s downtown garbage burner from entering the new, county-sales-tax-funded, open-air Minnesota Twins stadium next door. It’s exactly the kind of thing environmental activist Leslie Davis predicted when he sued for further environmental study of the Twins’ ballpark plans.

The Twins are getting a publicly financed stadium, and all we get is this dirty T-shirt

By Steve Perry | 03.20.08 | 10:49 am

Today may be the official start of spring, but the Minnesota Twins have already spent weeks carpet-bombing radio listeners with commercials touting all the fun to come. One upcoming promotion in particular stood out for its, well, uniqueness.

Twins Outfielder White, Former Twin Knoblauch Among Those Named in Mitchell Report

By Jeff Fecke | 12.13.07 | 1:50 pm

rowhiteMinnesota Twins outfielder Rondell White is among those named in Major League Baseball’s Mitchell Report.  The report, prepared by former Sen. George Mitchell, names a number of players who used illegal performance-enhancing drugs

According…

Twins Owner Gets One Last Laugh

By Jeff Fecke | 11.26.07 | 5:37 pm

Jeff FeckeCarl Pohlad, it is said, first broke into the banking business by foreclosing on family farms during the Great Depression. For most people, that would be a difficult job, but I almost suspect…