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It's time to start planning a parade. Before Minnesota puts its next junior senator on the plane to Washington, it should give him a hero's send-off. Bands should play. Scouts [...]

VOICES AFTER THE VETO Hospital shares GAMC stories Regions Hospital in St. Paul was hit hard when Gov. Tim Pawlenty decided last month to eliminate funding for General Assistance Medical [...]

Scott: As I mentioned in this morning's meeting, I want to go to Borneo to write about the newly discovered population of rare orangutans. You asked what I thought I [...]

Only among Minnesotans would it seem like a punishment to make someone stay in California. That is just one of the ways the effort to keep Sara Jane Olson away [...]

Byline: ERIC RINGHAM; STAFF WRITER Hey, you guys, this Facebook online computer virtual social network thing you suggested is great. What a campaign tool! My first term on the county [...]

FROM ONE EX TO ANOTHER Carter's career change What's ahead for George W. Bush? Our latest ex-president may have a happy and fulfilling life in store for him, in the [...]

SOBERING NEWS We have yet to hit rock bottom The pervasiveness of this recession continues to hit home in Minnesota. This week Target said it would cut 1,000 headquarters jobs [...]

Yes, we have a new president; the House has passed the stimulus package; the state budget deficit is monstrous and growing worse. But look at this headline: 'Grandma's says headphones [...]

That was some celebration Tuesday, as former President George W. Bush moved out of the White House and President Obama moved in. But what exactly were we celebrating? And exactly [...]

IF LUKE HAD REPORTED TO AN EDITOR (LUKE: Got your copy. Couple of issues.) And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar [...]

As Friday night's McCain-Obama debate proceeded, a second debate raged over the Internet. Here's what my mailbox looked like when it was over. 8:28 p.m. 'Tom Steward' DEBATE FACT #1: [...]

In Rehearsal In her terrific, adult-themed one-woman show, Alison Vodnoy uses illustrative dance and sassy storytelling to share her character's search for love in all the wrong arms. Akiva, the [...]

Depth of a Moment Oy. I had high expectations for 'Depth of a Moment,' Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman's physical theater piece. It comes with a strong recommendation from a [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty held a news conference Thursday afternoon at Bobby & Steve's Auto World in Bloomington to discuss Sen. John McCain's energy policy. Next week, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez [...]

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For more than four years, a bitter controversy has raged over a proposal to build Big Stone II, a coal-fired power plant to be located just across the border in [...]

News item: 'Cell tower unlikely to generate complaints from residents,' Feb. 22. An Edina cemetery, according to the report, is seeking permission to rent space to Sprint for a cellular [...]

A man ought to have an office in the Grain Exchange. He ought to walk past classy architectural details on his way to work in the morning. He ought to [...]

'Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome aboard. As we prepare for takeoff, please make sure that your seat backs and tray tables are in their locked, upright position. Kindly [...]

It would be interesting to know the year that the number of works about Shakespeare surpassed the works by Shakespeare - the year he became, as he might have put [...]

Book publishers have found a clever way of 'regifting': Take a classic or a bestseller and reissue it with a slipcover, photographs, paintings, facsimile documents, maps, sealing wax or other [...]

Bards The theory that William Shakespeare wrote love sonnets for the Earl of Southampton but discreetly loved rival playwright Christopher Marlowe fuels Nick Ryan's crackling comedy, 'Bards.' Bewitching and bloody [...]

The Penal Colony Ah, this is Fringe old school - nine spectators gathered throughout a big auditorium to watch an obtuse piece of performance art. Aptly named, this run at [...]

Mr. Dangerfield, you have repeatedly observed that you get no respect. Wouldn't you agree that anyone who hopes to lead our nation should be able to earn the respect of [...]

1. She's never had a boyfriend. 2. Why should we let him into the credit union when he won't commit to a civil union? 3. He's already a member of [...]

On the night before Thanksgiving last year, someone went over the rail of the Ford Parkway bridge. A swarm of emergency vehicles on the bridge created a festival of light [...]

I've been trying to think of a way to introduce our new feature, 'The Fifth Floor.' Probably it's best just to tell you what happened: Last spring, while working on [...]

John le Carre writes as though he might have spent part of his life as a therapist. He gives childhood its due as shaper of adulthood, constructing his characters as [...]

Hugh Kaufman, a senior policy analyst for the federal Environmental Protection Agency, has been closely involved with the cleanup of hazardous wastes at sites like Love Canal and the World [...]

AN AMERICAN VANISHING Sim Varner has more anecdotes and reflections than a 50-minute Fringe show can handle - so he divided them into five performances. More of a rambling storytelling [...]

H.P. LOVECRAFT'S 'THE RATS IN THE WALLS' Horror is difficult to pull off on stage, but Tim Uren's one-man reading of H.P. Lovecraft's Gothic tale set in 1923 captures an [...]

WRAPPED IN PLASTIC This amusing look into the mindset of a teenager who thinks herself too fat, too ugly and altogether too imperfect offers inspiration with little moralizing. The spunky [...]

Cairo, Egypt -- They oppose our efforts in Iraq, they question our belligerrence toward Iran, they resent our relationship with Israel, they hate our interference in their affairs - and, [...]

Luxor, Egypt -- Nine years ago this November, a group of men dressed in black appeared outside Queen Hatshepsut's tomb near Luxor. It is a popular tourist site, one of [...]

Cairo, Egypt -- A battle is underway for control of the world's most populous Arab country. It pits three forces against each other. One appears to be winning. The three [...]

Cairo, Egypt -- The ancient pharaohs paid in blood and treasure for eternal life, but even they left office eventually. Sooner or later, Hosni Mubarak will join them. No pyramid [...]

The impossible promise, the hyperbolic declaration, the unintended foot-shooting, the silly slogan: You can find them all, and more, on the web sites of people running for Minnesota's Fifth District [...]

Now that the War on Christmas has opened its Easter front (get it?), questions are swirling about whether the bunny, said to be offensive to non-Christians, is therefore inoffensive to [...]

Playwright's note: This a work of fiction. (The scene: a bedroom in an American starter home, circa 2006. The pale light suggests a January morning. There is no movement; the [...]

December 19, 2005 TO: MINNESOTA CHRISTMAS CHEER LEADERS FROM: CODENAME PRANCER, WASHINGTON, D.C. RE: OPERATION ENDURING JELLY BOWLFUL Hi, guys. I've read your memo arguing that Minnesota ought to be [...]

Newspaper offices get a lot of cards during the holiday season. We got one the other day from the conservative Institute for Justice, which made us feel guilty because we [...]

Here's the problem with intelligent design theory: It attempts to define, and limit, the mind and power of God. As an opinion journalist at a secular newspaper, I object to [...]

Beginning in 2008, public school students in Kansas will be tested under that state's new science standards, which open the door to criticism of evolution. Here are sample questions - [...]

On Monday, University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis sponsored a forum at the University of Minnesota about conscientious objection to military service. The speakers were Maj. Gen. Larry W. [...]

1 With nothing to do and nowhere to go after Jan. 1, the Vikings might be in a mood to party. 2 Heating prices are expected to be 48, 71 [...]

1 Peculiar, unrelenting, unseasonable rains. 2 Six-legged frogs in the BWCA. 3 Northwest Airlines bankrupt. 4 Tom DeLay indicted. Then indicted again. 5 Abundant Priuses. 6 Dizzying gasoline prices (possibly [...]

Ringham: President Bush and John Kerry agreed on one thing, anyway, during last year's campaign: Both insisted that no military draft would be necessary to continue the war in Iraq. [...]

Three nights a week, Steve - not his real name - reports in to his commander, gets directions and heads out with his squad. Steve is a family friend and [...]

'We have a spending problem in Minnesota, not a revenue problem.' - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R. 'New Hampshire doesn't have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem.' - [...]

It was at this time of year in 1994 that Denis Wadley, a contributor and friend to these pages, was getting ready to die. A devout Catholic as well as [...]