More trouble with Texans for Norm Coleman. Politics in Minnesota recounts some tales about Fred Malek, the leader among a group of Texans who recently hired the former senator to head a new organization called
The 14th-century Italian bridge that inspired it has withstood
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The Highway 43 bridge over the Mississippi River at Winona, Minn., became the latest symbol of Minnesota’s decaying infrastructure June 3 when the state Department of Transportation ordered it closed for at least six weeks due to…
At the Minnesota Capitol, pigs — or at least pork — do fly. Some pork, like the proposed state subsidy for a new parking ramp at the Mall of America, flaps its wings loudly above…
Gov. Pawlenty has basked in wide praise over the last 24 hours because his pick to lead MnDOT, Tom Sorel, is an actual transportation expert — not a political hack like former commissioner Carol Molnau or a PR…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced that Tom Sorel of the Federal Highway Administration will replace Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau as commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). Molnau was
The Minnesota Department of Transportation will not seek congressional help in building a replacement for the DeSoto bridge in St. Cloud according to a report by Lawrence Schumacher in The St. Cloud Times. The information was…
Words that begin with F and N: Michael Lacey, co-owner of Village Voice Media (City Pages’ parent company), apologized this week for using the “n-word” in his acceptance speech at an awards banquet on Friday, stating that it…
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has had visual evidence of damaged gusset plates on the 35W bridge for more than four years, according to a Star Tribune report. It appears that URS Corp., the company that MnDOT hired…
Two months after National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark Rosenker was himself accused of distortions (Daily Mole, Oberstar) over the role of gusset plates in the I-35W bridge collapse, the Minnesota Department of Transportation closed St. Cloud’s…
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