
Rep. Walz discusses health care reform at Netroots Minnesota. Photo: Paul Schmelzer, MnIndy
“If my vote sends me back to Mankato West to teach geography, so be it,” said Rep. Tim Walz Saturday of the House [...]

Rep. Walz discusses health care reform at Netroots Minnesota. Photo: Paul Schmelzer, MnIndy
“If my vote sends me back to Mankato West to teach geography, so be it,” said Rep. Tim Walz Saturday of the House [...]

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The rate of uninsured residents in Minnesota’s eight congressional districts is a good predictor of how U.S. House lawmakers voted on health care reform. But, according to data in a new report by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, there’s one [...]

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While the national unemployment rate of 10.2 percent is a sobering reminder of the depth of this recession and the protracted timeline a recovery will take, the challenges posed by long-term unemployment are far greater.
“We are breaking every record post-Great Depression on long-term unemployment,” said [...]
The Minnesota Voters Alliance says it wants a charter change in the two Home Rule cities that would require voters to show photo identification as a [...]

End the Fed rally last April. Photo: Chris Steller, MnIndy
Minnesota’s End the Fed group has something to celebrate Sunday as they march on the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s [...]
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Katherine Kersten on conservatism and religion
By Michael J. Bonafield | Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
Here's the second installment of my interview with columnist Katherine Kersten. I asked her about [...]
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Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. Photo: WDCpix
It happens in every recession: Medicaid enrollment leaps at precisely the same time that states are least able to afford the additional costs. The structural flaw has left state lawmakers threatening program cuts, [...]
For this weeks Lake Minnetonka photo, cruise on over to Minnesota’s Lake Minnetonka and check it out.
Posted in MLM 2.0 Tagged: Lake Minnetonka [...] I am trying very hard to see where Newsweek’s choice to use Sarah Palin’s Runner’s World photo as their cover is a horribly sexist decision that belittles women everywhere. No, seriously, I am — I’m aware I’m not going to see a flaw the first time I look at something, [...]

After late-August protests, Cleveland and Filson were put on leave from their jobs. Photo: Andy Birkey, MnIndy
Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 teacher Diane Cleveland filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) in Ramsey County District Court Monday, [...]

Como Student Community Cooperative. Photo: Chris Steller
The University of Minnesota has quickly, if quietly, begun to address threats posed by a toxic waste dump it discovered under student family housing in Southeast Minneapolis.
The university found the toxins under three buildings [...]

“Why not a picture of Tim Pawlenty with an unbuttoned shirt relaxing on a couch in the Twin Cities?” That’s what the Christian Broadcasting Network’s White House correspondent asks in an outraged response to Newsweek putting a photo of Sarah Palin in jogging togs on its [...]