Arizona’s tough immigration enforcement law threatens to do more than make life unbearably difficult for illegal immigrants. It also threatens to sour US foreign relations with Mexico and other Latin American nations.That’s the message in a friend-of-t... »
Two men who've worked to end racism will be honored tonight at the Facing Race Ambassador Awards event in St. Paul.Mahmoud El-Kati, Macalester College professor emeritus, and Steve Pederson from Alexandria will get the awards, which are sponsored by th... »
Remember how Newt Gingrich so reverently and so often spoke about the need to be a good steward of the public's money? Odd but the principle of fiscal sanity doesn't seem to apply to Mr. Gingrich himself. Of late it's come to the fore that Newt Gingric... »
Weeks after Mexican President Felipe Calderón took office in late 2006, he declared a war on drug traffickers, dispatching troops to violent swaths of the country. When the Mexican military went on its first offensive, Operation Michoacan, in the presi... »
It was a “once-upon-a-time’’ afternoon at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, featuring Walter Mondale and Ira Shapiro.Shapiro’s recently published book, “The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis,’’ is creating a bit of a... »
With startling efficiency, a House committee last night approved the proposal for a new Vikings stadium in Minneapolis, along with a controversial funding plan.Even though the Commerce and Regulatory Reform Committee began its meeting an hour late, Cha... »
Moose hunters will be in a pretty exclusive club this year. John Myers of the Duluth News Tribune reports: “Minnesota will scale back its moose hunting season yet again as the state’s beleaguered moose population continues a rapid downward trend. The M... »
Arizona’s tough immigration enforcement law threatens to do more than make life unbearably difficult for illegal immigrants. It also threatens to sour US foreign relations with Mexico and other Latin American nations.That’s the message in a friend-of-t... »
