1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (669+ words) DULUTH – Google’s controversial northeast Minnesota data center proposal has “gaps” and “deficiencies,” the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said of its final environmental review. But the agency stopped short of objecting to it. In a late August letter to the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1117+ words) The governor is technically the boss of the Twin Cities area, which has plenty of problems that need coordinated solutions. The governor of Minnesota is legally the boss of the Twin Cities region. And it’s about time they acted the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (563+ words) Criminal charges over alleged tax evasion will be dropped against Walser Automotive Group with the car dealer agreeing to pay the state $490,000. Walser, one of Minnesota’s largest car dealerships, was charged with felony tax evasion in January for allegedly participating…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (945+ words) Neither Donald Trump nor Tim Walz are on the ballot this year ― judge Lisa Demuth and Amy Klobuchar on their own merits. I recently tumbled into a social media post about the depths of underappreciation for Curtis Sittenfeld’s 2020 novel “Rodham....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (434+ words) Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell says he has withheld payment to cover the cost of a recount after this month’s loss in the primary election, claiming the Secretary of State’s Office proposed an unlawful process to recount the votes. Lindell…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (903+ words) The forest wasready to burn.Then the storms rolled in. The fires were due, in a sense. The flurry of lightning strikes that randomly hit parts of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in early July set fire to woods…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (557+ words) Golden State has the league’s top defense, and it shut down Olivia Miles and Napheesa Collier to win at Target Center. The Golden State Valkyries franchise was just a twinkle in the eye of an expanding WNBA the last time…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (442+ words) Aimee Bock, the convicted ringleader of the massive Feeding Our Future scheme, said the U.S. government failed to prove she knew the scope of the fraud passing through her nonprofit in asking an appeals court to overturn her conviction. In a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (749+ words) A recent state Supreme Court ruling could make it harder for cities and counties to offer multiple in-person early voting sites this fall. The court ruled last week that Minneapolis must use party-balanced election judges at its early voting polling…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (498+ words) OK, this is getting a bit too far-fetched. It’s a good thing this is only imaginary and nothing remotely like this is really happening to you or me or every one of us in the United States. I wholeheartedly agree…...