The Forum that won many nicknames before it even began left participants with hope. It has been called an historic conference, never done before.MORE »Byline African News Journal By: Bashe Said [...]
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The Forum that won many nicknames before it even began left participants with hope. It has been called an historic conference, never done before.MORE »Byline African News Journal By: Bashe Said [...]
The Minneapolis-based Bush Foundation recently announced a bold $40 million initiative to recruit, prepare, place and support new teachers in Minnesota and the Dakotas over the next 10 years. MORE »Byline Minnesota 2020 By: John Fitzgerald [...]
The skies over Northern Minnesota's signature natural areas will get 30 percent clearer - by 2018 - under new rules approved today by a 7-1 vote of the state Pollution Control Agency board.MORE »
Byline Minnesota Independent By: [...]Will the suburbs ever build enough affordable housing? Attendees at a November 20 Center for Urban and Regional Affairs forum seemed skeptical both about suburban plans for affordable housing and about the Met Council's role in pushing the issue. MORE »Byline ' [...]
"Severe" and "devastating" were two words used by lawmakers to describe budget cuts they may have to make to fix Minnesota's projected budget gap without new revenues. MORE »Byline Session Weekly/Session Daily By: staff [...]
Va Megn Thoj, Tran Nhon and David Zander recently testified on unemployment issues of the Asian American community of Minnesota at a Jobs Task Force Public Hearing. MORE »Byline Asian American Press By: Staff [...]
Who knows the Minnesota Oromo?
Who knows their dark secret?
Fifteen thousand Oromo live in Minnesota but they blend in almost invisibly, like a stealthy, anonymous population in the state.
MORE »Byline dougmcgill TC [...]
Prospect Park is known for historic houses, but rarely is it associated with its Glendale neighborhood, a community that has been home to Somalis for the past 13 years. MORE »Byline The Minnesota Daily By: Lolla [...]
Just when Margaret Anderson Kelliher appeared to be pulling away from the pack running for governor with a series of endorsements, charges that she violated campaign-finance rules are settMORE »Byline [...]
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann urged her supporters to fight health care reform by calling Congress "every day, when you wake up in the morning and comb your hair and take your vitamins."MORE »
Byline Minnesota Independent By: [...]Winona, a southeastern Minnesota city of 30,000, boasts a municipal bus system that carries nearly a quarter-million riders each year.MORE »Byline Minnesota 2020 By: Conrad deFiebre Copyright: ©2009 Minnesota 2020 [...]
One area restaurant manager who put aside his excitement over a large catering order most likely saved the business hundreds of dollars in a fraud scheme from an out of country scam artist using TTY relay operators.MORE »
Byline Asian American [...]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 [...]Six members of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, a controversial ministry that holds Christian assemblies in public schools, are ordained as ministers, tax documents show.MORE »Byline Minnesota Independent By: Andy Birkey [...]
Both the NCAA and the University of Minnesota last month boasted of improved student-athletes' graduation rates. However, a closer look shows that this "significant achievement" does not apply to the school's Black student-athletes. MORE »Byline Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder By: ' [...]
Be careful what you wish for. That's what Prospect Park residents learned after they began the arduous process of becoming a designated national historic site almost 10 years ago. MORE »Byline Lolla Mohammed Nur [...]
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: [...]
Naomi Klein, columnist for The Nation, asks: "A lot of people say, give Obama time. The guy was just elected - what do you say to that?" MORE »Byline Chuck Olsen The [...]
A meeting of Twin Cities Quakers has decided to stop signing marriage certificates until all couples in Minnesota are allowed to marry. The decision, made in November, was a topic of Minnesota Public Radio's All Things Considered on Monday. MORE »
Byline [...]Surrounded by kitchen-cupboard staples like pasta, beans and rice, Rick Martineau of the Senior Food Shelf held up a can of vegetable soup and showed it off to Maria, 68. MORE »Byline Karen Hollish [...]
Abdiaziz Mohamed is a Somali refugee who is unemployed, can't speak fluent English and doesn't have the basic computer skills most people take for granted. MORE »Byline Lolla Mohammed Nur The Minnesota [...]
Positive steps are being taken by local entrepreneurs to promote their shared strengths and resources and attract area consumers to buy locally made and sold products this holiday season. MORE »Byline Minnesota 2020 By: Lee Egerstrom [...]
With the December calendar choked with Christmas shows—Nativities, Nutcrackers, shows about Santa crying and A Christmas Carol featuring the Golden Girls—it seems only fitting that some alternate holiday programming should pop up. Hanukkah seems like a natural choice.MORE »Byline [...]
Oscar Night® America is bringing the glamour and enchantment of Hollywood to Minnesota.
The Aegis Foundation, Minneapolis, was selected by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of its sanctioned 2010 Oscar Night America charities.MORE »Byline [...]
