So, when’s the last time you saw a parent cave when a kid wanted his or her own way? Was it the 5-year-old howling at the store checkout to get a candy bar?
To roof, or not to roof — a Shakespearean stadium question
To roof, or not to roof?
That is one of the fundamental questions facing the Vikings, policy makers and the pigskin-loving/tax-paying public as the discussion swirls around a new pro football stadium.
GOP national convention: What’s in it for our cities?
Three Views: Mayor R.T. Rybak, Erin Dady and Mayor Gene WinsteadMinneapolis: Convention will showcase city and feature nonpartisan community festival
By Mayor R.T. Rybak
Friday, Nov.
What to make of the recession question
Credit crunch, barreling oil prices and diving dollar are distressing Wall Street and Main Street.
Rybak-Pawlenty political truce
Tick, tick, tick…By G.R. Anderson Jr. | Friday, Nov. 9, 2007 In the hours and weeks after the bridge collapse, longtime political adversaries Tim Pawlenty and R.T.
Veteran discovers VA is a good health club to be in
By David Hawley | Friday, Nov.
Where the jobs are, and aren’t
Welcome to Public Numbers, wherein a variety of MinnPost.com journalists will write Current Posts about numbers and public life — what we can learn from these numbers, and how to know when numbers are being misused.
O brothers, where aren’t thou?
O brothers, where aren’t thou?
It’s a better-than-average time to be a fan of Joel and Ethan Coen.
School levy bottom line: Pay now or later
Voters who said no to funding referendums in such metro-area districts as Robbinsdale, Elk River, Inver Grove Heights and Prior Lake-Savage may be celebrating what they see as a victory over higher property taxes, but it’s really just a “pay me now
Stadium commission spins Vikings plan around the state
Rochester, Minn. Minnesota’s stadium debate was revved up by the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission and glitzed up Wednesday by the agency’s gaggle of consultants.
The commission, which owns and operates the Metrodome, s
St. Paul’s lone survivor: Republican Tom Conlon
Not many election surprises Tuesday in St.
Some transportation advice — from Utah?
Some transportation advice — from Utah? The fallen I-35W bridge may serve best as a metaphor in motion. Its splashdown resembles perfectly the descending condition of our metropolitan transportation policy.
A message to Sen. Amy Klobuchar from a disaffected Democrat
As a disaffected Minnesota Democrat, I feel the strong need to take our new senator, Amy Klobuchar, to task for an incredibly disappointing vote: her recent vote on the renewal of FISA — the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
How and why a purp
Right now, the D in DFL stands for debt
The party needs a $5,000 contribution just to meet this week’s payroll. Competition among political campaigns, internal party disillusionment and extra staffing are complicating budgeting.
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Who lost Pakistan? Maybe the West
The White House is pressuring Pakistan’s president to restore constitutional rule, but an underlying question remains: Is U.S. policy fostering instability in that country?
Grave by grave, group restores Minnesotans’ forgotten lives
For 13 years, with little fanfare, a coalition of advocacy groups has been working to bring dignity to the lives and deaths of the anonymous former residents of Minnesota’s state hospitals and institutions.
If only Jane Austen had a singles column…
Never mind Dear Abby, Dr. Phil or Dr. Laura. It’s Jane Austen who’s dishing out the latest advice for the lovelorn.
The sky’s the limit for Planetarium — but its future is up in the air
The vision for the Minnesota Planetarium and Space Discovery Center is as bright as ever.But the down-to-earth reality is that the Planetarium’s backers are struggling to clear yet another hurdle in their rugged path to replacing the old planetarium
Librarians pinpoint bandit in mystery of missing patterns
Overheard at a knitters gathering in Minneapolis: “The library catalog said the books were checked in, but they were not on the shelf. And I know how to use the Dewey Decimal system!