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Change is inevitable, and the time for new coal fired power plants has passed.
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneap...
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
We will get the incremental health care reforms we were promised. Things will likely get better in the short term. Then, since we didn't contain costs, we'll need to enact real reform. Or, things will go right back to the status quo.
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their p...
AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Federal investigators interviewed the crew of the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles on ...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Were the pilots distracted? Catching up on their sleep? Federal investigators struggled to determine what the crew members of a Nor...
AP | FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The family of a Minnesota woman who died more than a week after being overcome in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony said Sunday...
AP | CHRIS WILLIAMS | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
MINNEAPOLIS — A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themsel...
AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Derek Jeter and CC Sabathia got the New York Yankees off to a winning postseason start in their new ballpark. Even Alex Rodriguez bro...
Mike Hegedus | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media
Chicago was never the favorite, even if Oprah thought it was. All it takes is a quick understanding of how the IOC votes, who the 100 IOC voters are, and which way the international wind is blowing.
AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA, Minn. — The moose calf didn't seem to want to get out of the water. But its mother, perhaps concerned about approac...
Lauri Lyons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Minnesota Star Tribune | Bob Von Sternberg | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Gov. Tim Pawlenty today joined the chorus of disapproval aimed at the ACORN community organizing group, ordering that state agencies "stop all state f...
Jerry Weissman | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
Rhetorical skills helped Barack Obama win the election. Will they help his health care reform plan win?
Minnesota Independent | Chris Steller | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
Packing two pistols, a Rogers man with a Twin Towers tattoo on his arm spent seven hours Saturday among protesters outside Target Center, where Presid...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.
Posted 10.22.2009 | Comedy
Senator Al Franken drew a surprisingly accurate map of all fifty U.S. states at the Minnesota State Fair recently. The senator from Minnesota demons...
Minnesota Star Tribune | Rachel E. Stassen-Berger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty today gave his support to parents and schools wary about showing President Obama's televised back-to-school address in cla...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
While coverage of the health care reform debate has focused on yelling, booing and fistfights, not all engagements between lawmakers and constituents ...
Harvey Karp | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
In case you missed the flurry of recent news, scientists have serious doubts about the safety of BPA (bisphenol A). And that's alarming because this h...
Minnesota Independent | Paul Demko | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
On Wednesday Rep. Michele Bachmann was part of a star-studded "teletownhall" meeting to discuss health-care reform. The event, billed "Keeping Faith w...
WQOW.com | Posted 08.31.2009 | Style
That University of Minnesota sweatshirt on the sales rack at the campus bookstore might just be made in Minnesota, or at least the United States. Aft...
The Minnesota Independent | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Al Franken spewed fire and Amy Klobuchar threw brimstone this morning at the Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the ...
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Freshman Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) announced his first legislative initiative on Monday -- a bill to provide service dogs to wounded veterans. Franke...
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John DeCock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green