A nationwide campaign to organize 40,000 airport security screeners includes workers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, where union organizers and supporters are taking part in a week of solidarity actions. At MSP airport, the screeners - called Transportation Security Officers or TSOs - recently [...]
Three years ago, after years of budget cuts and declining resources, Edison High School had no band. In the 2008-2009 school year--a year after the Minneapolis Public Schools named Carla Steinbach Edison's principal--the school board "fresh started" the school, giving it more resources and [...]
MNTC HQ in Minneapolis. Photo: Andy Birkey, MnIndy
Last December, after the Minnesota Independent ran an article about Minnesota Teen Challenge and the federal earmark the Christian drug treatment center is receiving, the group' [...]
Rybak and I discussed Iron Range economic and education issues and the state of Minnesota's budget disaster. We also chatted about how a Minneapolis guy gets street cred on the blue [...]
Today my series of posts profiling the 2010 Minnesota DFL governor candidates ends with Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak. Stay tuned for more news after the post.
Hoping to encourage interfaith dialogue, an Islamic organization will unveil a pair of billboards in Minneapolis this week.
Who wants to call and ask about the official policy on killing homosexuals?
I'm sure that the people answering these questions will just lie about the ROPMA.
' [...]A cyclist I know was riding the bus through Minneapolis a while back, with his bike on the drop-down rack. Another bike was in the front slot; his was nearest the bus.
When the bus came to a stop downtown, a man ran up and quickly snatched the other man's [...]
The 155-mile Northern Lights Express — a proposed passenger rail route running between Duluth and Minneapolis — could be on a fast track.
Former state representative Kathy Tingelstad, now a legislative lobbyist for Anoka County, believes the project will not have the prolonged struggle that marked development of Northstar Commuter Rail.
“People [...]
The St. Paul Pioneer Press and Minnesota Public Radio reported that Kelliher, the speaker of the state House from Minneapolis, asked campaign donors to contribute to the DFL Party to help her buy the party’s voter list. Kelliher’s campaign had already exceeded its limit for donations in [...]
Renowned photographer Abdi Roble and author Doug Rutledge have returned to the Twin Cities to document the Somali diaspora through pictures and stories. They have traveled the world for the past six years interviewing and photographing Somali immigrants and refugees in the United States, [...]
Locking yourself out of your home happens to many people, but being locked out by a bank in the middle of winter can be illegal. This is the dilemma that One West Bank is facing because they locked Minneapolis resident Leslie Parks out of [...]
Preliminary studies and about 20 public meetings on the Bottineau Light Rail line have led to more questions and further studies, according to a Hennepin County staffer.MORE »
Byline North News By: Gail Olson Image Info [...]
After refusing to testify before a grand jury in Davenport, Iowa, University of Minnesota graduate student Scott DeMuth is facing conspiracy charges under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) for an incident that occurred in 2004. DeMuth, 22, was in high school at [...]
Joking Envelope's Fat Man Crying, presented at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage, is refreshing in that it doesn't attempt to solve the world's problems in one Christmas night. It does, however, crush every childhood picture of Santa Claus you may have—unless the Santa at your' [...]
During a campaign stop yesterday in Rochester at Daube's Cakes and Bakery, DFL gubernatorial candidate R.T. Rybak emphasized that he supports efforts to make sure the city is on a high-speed rail line.
The current Minneapolis Mayor said he has long supported the idea [...]
City Council members voted to strike down a budget amendment that would temporarily disband the division that investigates complaints of discrimination in the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights on Monday evening. MORE »Byline The Minnesota Daily By: [...]
Hundreds of Twin Cities janitors - joined by Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Congressman Keith Ellison - kicked off their contract campaign with a call to "make green cleaning a reality." Service Employees International Union Local 26, which represents [...]
On its third week in operation, a North Star line train crapped out during rush hour.
They went to Plan B:
Metro Transit sent two buses to Target Field in Minneapolis to pick up the 120 passengers aboard the 2:05 p.m. train, which never left the station, and take them to [...]
Minneapolis residents have to look to the neighborhood-association president level to find an elected chief executive who represents them and might actually be at the office today.
President Obama is in Norway, picking up his Nobel Peace Prize. Gov. Pawlenty is in Chile, meeting [...]
What is it about riding a bike under a baseball stadium that Tom Coburn and John McCain don’t understand? The senators decried federal stimulus spending to extend the Cedar Lake Bike Trail into downtown Minneapolis, prompting a blog retort by Transportation Secretary Ray [...]
Violence erupted outside the U Otter Stop Inn in Minneapolis' Northeast neighborhood early Monday morning in what victims are calling a hate crime. Lauren DeLand says she and her partner Joe Sullivan and three other friends left the bar at closing and once outside' [...]
Congress’ first Muslim, DFLer Keith Ellison, has drawn an independent challenger with a lot to say — particularly about Islam.
Lynne Torgerson charts her own course, telling the Minnesota Independent in an interview that she considers herself almost “apolitical.”
The Minneapolis criminal-defense attorney unsuccessfully sought election as [...]
House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, has been endorsed for governor by EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest financial resource for women candidates, according to the Kelliher campaign.
Last election cycle EMILY’s List raised more than $43 million to support women candidates.
“It’s been an exciting week for our campaign and I am [...]
Yesterday's ride across Minneapolis and back finished before noon, so I missed this kind of cycling adventure. However, today I'll get a chance to test the snow clearing and driving practices in the northwest suburbs for a short but required meeting that hardly seems [...]
First, let’s peruse a recent Minneapolis Star Tribune article about how districts like my own Robbinsdale Area Schools is marketing to parents who might be considering opting out of District 281. Enrollments are declining in many if not most districts in Minnesota for a number of reasons like lower [...]
