Nearly two weeks after a Continental Airlines flight left 47 people stranded on a Rochester tarmac for six hours, a plane filled with Minnesotans spent the same amount of time awaiting takeoff in New York on Friday. The…
Do not be alarmed, you residents near the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant. The state, federal and local officials you see acting as if there’s been a terrible nuclear accident are doing just that: acting. They do this…
A light rail service from downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie passed an important test on Monday: cost and ridership estimates show that parts of the project falls within the parameters to receive federal assistance. Only one proposed route of the…
The House last Friday provided a generous lifeline to the wildly popular clunkers program — which grants drivers up to $4,500 to scrap their gas guzzlers for more fuel efficient vehicles — and the Senate is poised to pass that bill Thursday. But there’s a glitch. The proposal steals its funding from a Department of Energy program encouraging the development of renewable energy technologies.
What kind of “crack research” is Fox’s Gretchen Carlson smoking? The Fox & Friends co-host and former Miss Minnesota claimed today that after spending “a tremendous amount of time” researching the issue, she found that only two cash-for-clunkers…
State Sen. Scott Dibble has been named chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures” Transportation Committee. The Minneapolis Democrat currently oversees the state Senate’s Transit Subdivision.
The plight of Minnesota’s dairy farmers occupied the time of Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Reps. Tim Walz, Collin Peterson and James Oberstar, who worked this week to find relief for farmers hard hit by economic and natural disaster. That and other highlights from Minnesota’s congressional delegation inside.
Healthcare reform and the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor dominated headlines this week, but many of Minnesota’s congressional representatives have been busy working on a slew of issues from food-borne illness andhydrocephalus to highway funding and aid to Liberia.
Federal strategies for tackling climate change are doomed to fail without concerted efforts to keep Americans out of their cars — efforts that will necessarily include a greater emphasis on public transit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Senate lawmakers Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann blogs on how biking isn’t healthy:
You would think that any health care bill brought forth in Congress would actually be focused on reforming health care. Alas, it seems that both House and Senate
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