University Of Minnesota

For state college administrators, the announcement of the Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s unallotment plans was a good news/bad news story. The size of the budgetary hit was not as big as they expected. But, it’s still a substantial amount. The state’s two higher-education systems — which comprise 32 colleges and state universities, plus the four University of Minnesota campuses outside the Twin Cities — will each take a hit of $50 million dollars, or about a 3.6 percent drop.

Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, says the University of Minnesota is trying to clone human beings and is in violation of the law. The university says its research is legal and that the group is engaging in a “disinformation campaign” designed to halt stem cell research.

Maureen Reed, a former Independence Party candidate for Lt. Governor, is going to challenge Rep. Michele Bachmann, according to the blog Liberal in the Land of Conservative. In 2006 she ran on a gubernatorial ticket with Peter Hutchinson, garnering six percent of the vote statewide.

“A very specific threat of violence” has led authorities to close three buildings on the University of Minnesota’s West Bank Minneapolis campus. The threat targeted the Carlson School of Management, Hanson Hall and the Hubert H. Humphrey Center, according to University Police Chief Greg Hestness.
Update: The AP reports that there was a “threat of a shooting” [...]

On CNN Monday, New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh elaborated about claims he first made public March 10 at the University of Minnesota about a U.S. military “executive assassination wing” (or “ring”) called the “Joint Special Operations Command” that killed people in other countries and answered to Vice President Dick Cheney but not Congress. Video after [...]

Tony Dungy, best known for winning Super Bowl XLI as coach for the Indianapolis Colts, is rumored to be a top pick for the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Dungy has been controversial for his associations with religious right leaders, prompting protests at his appearance at the University of Minnesota several [...]

Looking for a sure-fire way to piss off scores of people all over the country? Put your NCAA hoops bracket online for the whole world to see. That’s the politically foolish step that President Obama has taken. He has Minnesota exiting to Texas in the first round. Arne Carlson is not amused. Rumor has it [...]

Five eminent economists at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute were surprisingly upbeat about the future, though some noted poverty and homelessness in Minnesota have spiked.

R.T. Rybak boasts of his access to the Obama administration, but can Minneapolis’ mayor really expect to bring more federal spending on transportation infrastructure to the Twin Cities?

Minneapolis Precinct 1, Ward 3 is now the latest and greatest Ground Zero of messed-up election practices to be exposed during Minnesota’s statewide recount in the U.S. Senate contest between Democrat Al Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. It’s there, in the Dinkytown neighborhood on the edge of the University of Minnesota campus, that poll workers recorded 133 more votes than they have ballots to show for it. It’s also there that students trying to vote via Minnesota’s same-day registration process last month were turned away — in a re-run of a major snafu at another campus polling place during the last general election two years ago.