A few GOP heavyweights don’t like the idea of all the new gambling required to guarantee the Vikings stadium stays out of other funds. Baird Helgeson of the Strib reports: “Highlighting a strong divide in the Republican Party, a group of GOP legislator... »
The arrest of former BP engineer Kurt Mix two years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the biggest offshore oil disaster in the US, suggests that the federal government is still looking for answers about what the oi... »
Pete Tangren, a farmer near Dexter, can feel the drought in the air, reports Matt Peterson of the Austin Daily Herald. Tangren, who began farming in 1974, can’t remember the last time conditions were this dry. “The subsoil moisture is non-existent,” he... »
The depictions of George Zimmerman that have emerged since he killed Trayvon Martin in the Retreat at Twin Lakes neighborhood in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26 have trended mostly around suspicions that he is a racist vigilante, a product of a “shoot first”... »
The AP’s Brian Bakst had no luck trying to nail down how much the Senate, (i.e., the taxpayers) is paying to defend itself against Michael Brodkorb’s legal barrage: “The private attorney hired by the Minnesota Senate to handle fallout from the former m... »
After the final vote had been taken, after most of the reporters and spectators and testifiers had left the room, Rep. Morrie Lanning’s hands still were quivering.For seven years, Lanning, a Republican from Moorhead, has been carrying Vikings stadium b... »
With President Obama gearing up for reelection and the international community focused on Iran's nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking advantage of a distinct lack of scrutiny to expand Israeli settlements in the West Ban... »
The Minnesota National Guard sent two Blackhawk helicopters and 12 soldiers from St. Paul and St. Cloud Monday to help control a wildfire that has burned more than 1,400 acres of woods and brush near Nimrod in north-central Minnesota, the Associated Pr... »
Despite all the machinations to avoid him and a certain veto, Gov. Mark Dayton will campaign against the GOP’s Voter ID bill. Tim Pugmire at MPR says: “Dayton said Tuesday that he will work against a Republican-backed constitutional amendment that woul... »
George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old former altar boy whose shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, has caused a national uproar, has withdrawn into seclusion. His lawyer says he’s afraid for his life amid numerous death threats.As Florida ... »
The Red River crested in Fargo at 17.8 feet Sunday, marking the first time since 1992 that the spring crest was below the minor flood stage of 18 feet, the National Weather Service told the Fargo Forum. Barring significant rainfall, the river should co... »
“Step one in Canada’s quest for world domination… is to take over Iceland.”I chuckled when I read this headline and thought it came from the humor site The Onion, along the lines of “Road-Kill Squirrel Remembered As Frantic, Indecisive.” Yet when I cli... »
Editor’s note: With all of Minnesota’s political polarization since the 2010 elections, we decided to explore two possible “alternate realities” that could have occurred if relatively few voters had chosen “the other candidate.” Second of two article... »
The Syrian military took its bombardment of the rebel-held Baba Amro district of Homs into a fourth week on Saturday as the Red Cross tried to evacuate more distressed civilians from the city.At least 28 people were killed in Syria on Saturday, includi... »
Everyone uncomfortable with the suggestion that anti-gay bullying played a role in some of the teen suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin school district will be disappointed to hear that the superintendent up there has amended his thinking. Sarah Horner’s Pi... »
