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Wafting poison makes fertile ground for suit in Stearns County

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Josephine Marcotty - Jul. 26 (News Report) - Court rules pesticide drifting onto organic farm constitutes trespass.

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Broken deals, bitter words and a state shuts down

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Baird Helgeson, Mike Kaszuba, Eric Roper, Rachel E. Stassen-Berger - Jul. 01 (News Report) - GOP demanded a special session to reconcile philosophical and financial gap. The governor and legislative leaders worked into the evening in a last-ditch bid for resolution.

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Campaign ads for smart phones, Web come of age

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Oct. 01 - Minnesota candidates are spending more on online and smart phone ads that zero in on specific groups. The advantage over TV spots? They are cheap, fast and success is easy to measure.

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Manufacturing a renaissance at U.S. factories

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Sep. 10 - White House adviser Ron Bloom's goal is to have us again be a nation that makes things. But how?

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Test No. 1 in college: Picking a health insurer

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Aug. 01 - Many students (and their parents) face an important choice among coverage options for health care while away at school.

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Nuclear safety in question at Prairie island

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Tom Meersman - Jun. 03 (News Report) - Safety equipment at the Prairie Island nuclear plant could fail if nearby water pipes broke and flooded part of the plant, according to a recent federal inspection. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent Xcel Energy a letter last Friday calling the situation an apparent violation that is being considered "for escalated enforcement action." Xcel officials said the NRC's concern is valid, and the company has already taken steps to reduce risks. Last week's notice came nine months after the NRC found a different violation that identified safety risks if severe weather damaged the plant, which is located in Red Wing about 50 miles southeast of the Twin Cities.

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Battles loom over corporate expenditures in campaigns

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Pat Doyle, Kevin Diaz - Apr. 30 (News) - Democratic lawmakers at the state and national levels try to blunt the impact of a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Minnesota business interests counter with a suit.

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In St. Paul, new chief of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office calls for reform

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Janet Moore - Apr. 07 (News Report) - David Kappos, who can be the agency's critic or its biggest cheerleader, spoke here Tuesday.

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Health care consumes record share of economy

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Noam N. Levey - Feb. 04 (News Report) - In a stark reminder of growing costs, the government estimated on Wednesday that health care consumed a record 17.3 percent of all spending in the U.S. economy last year -- or roughly $2.5 trillion.

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Editorial: Adjust state laws after election ruling

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Jan. 27 (Editorial) - Reduced to their ideal core, Minnesota political campaigns are conversations between candidates and voters. State campaign laws -- some ancient, some devised after Watergate showed how the conversation could be distorted by big money and unscrupulous players -- have worked fairly well to keep candidates and voters in control of their exchange.

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High noon in Washington, D.C.

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:05:22 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Nov. 18 -

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Can health care co-ops live up to expectations?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Chen May Yee - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - Two years ago, sick of rising health care premiums, Nancy Taylor tried to switch insurance carriers. The dairy farmer from western Wisconsin found another insurer, but its policy had two big loopholes. It wouldn't cover conditions affecting her breasts or uterus -- a mammogram had once found a spot on her breast -- and it wouldn't cover ear, nose and throat conditions for her son, who wears a hearing aid. Says Taylor: "I looked at [the agent] and thought: This isn't insurance.''

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Sands Hid Fate of Gulf War Pilot Missing Since 1991

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By All Authors - Aug. 02 (News) - Mystery Surrounding Speicher’s Whereabouts Had Sparked Rumors, Conspiracy Theories

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State Supreme Court rules for Franken, 5-0

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Pat Doyle - Jun. 30 (News Report) - The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that Democrat Al Franken won the U.S. Senate election and said he was entitled to an election certificate that would lead to him being seated in the Senate.

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Payment is key in health care reform

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Jun. 29 (Editorial) - With an economy heavily dependent on medical care and technology, Minnesota has much at stake in the historic reforms proposed by Congress to overhaul the nation's broken health care system.

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Court: Coleman must pay Franken $95,000 in court costs

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Associated Press PAT DOYLE - Jun. 11 (News Report) - A three-judge panel today required Republican Norm Coleman to pay Democrat Al Franken $94,783 to cover court costs in the seven-week U.S. Senate trial. The ruling, by the panel that heard the trial, approves an administrative decision last month by the Ramsey County clerk's office. Franken's team had sought $161,510, but a deputy county clerk rejected a request that Coleman pay Franken for his cost of obtaining public records that made up many of the exhibits in the trial and some other expenses.

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Minnesota's Senate race now comes down to 5 votes

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Pat Doyle - May. 31 (News Report) - Now it comes down to five votes. Almost seven months after a U.S. Senate election that was too close to call, five justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday on whether problems with absentee ballots justify reversing a lower-court ruling that declared DFLer Al Franken a 312-vote winner over Republican Norm Coleman. Partisans across America will be watching, pronouncing judgment on a thousand blogs. The case may cast a blinding national spotlight on the state Supreme Court.

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Minnesota Poll: Most want Coleman to call it quits

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Kevin Duchschere - Apr. 27 (Poll) - A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll has found that 64 percent of those responding believe Coleman, the Republican, should accept the recount trial court's April 13 verdict that Democrat Franken won the race by 312 votes. Only 28 percent consider last week's appeal by Coleman to the Minnesota Supreme Court "appropriate."

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Coleman asks state Supreme Court to take it slow

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Kevin Duchscher, Bob Von Sternberg - Apr. 23 (News Report) - Coleman, a Republican, proposed to the court that his appeal of Democrat Al Franken's victory in the recent Senate election trial be argued no sooner than mid-May, two weeks later than Franken suggested on Tuesday.

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State auditor can't say whether Q Comp works

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Emily Johns, Bob Von Sternberg - Feb. 04 (News Report) - There's not enough evidence to know if Minnesota's program linking teacher pay with performance affects student achievement, according to a report released Tuesday, and that has DFL legislators promising that Gov. Tim Pawlenty's push to expand it statewide will be met with resistance. The report by the state legislative auditor's office said "it is difficult to draw conclusions about the effectiveness" of "Q Comp," or "Quality Compensation," because it's voluntary and school districts have many other programs in place. "The state is not quite where it needs to be in terms of measuring the growth in student achievement," said Judy Randall of the legislative auditor's office. She presented the report to the Minnesota Senate education committee Tuesday.

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Want to really stimulate the economy?

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Wy Spano - Jan. 28 (Opinion) - ver the last 30 years, American higher-education policy seems to have been designed to ensure poor economic performance in this country. In the economic stimulus package now being discussed, we can begin to reverse that course. Here's what happened: From the end of World War II through the 1970s, we seemed to think, as a nation, that providing higher education was the key to economic development. And it was. Higher education benefited the recipient and society, and society was willing to pay for that benefit. We paid partly through charitable donations, partly through public funds, and a little bit -- a very little bit -- through tuition. Then we changed our mind.

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A new frontier of online learning in Minnesota

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Jenna Ross - Jan. 02 (News Report) - On a trip around the state, Gov. Tim Pawlenty laid out a new goal: By 2015, students in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system would earn 25 percent of their credits online.

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State may be one seat short when Senate convenes

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Mike Kaszuba, Kevin Duchschere, Pat Doyle - Dec. 25 (News Report) - The state Canvassing Board postponed one key decision in the recount, involving the allocation of votes from withdrawn ballot challenges. Meanwhile, state officials and the campaigns sought more time to comply with a state Supreme Court order to count wrongly rejected absentee ballots.

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Franken pushes his lead over Coleman to nearly 250

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Paul Walsh - Dec. 23 (News Report) - The intense scrutiny of "voter intent" resumed today by the five-member board charged with directing Minnesota's recount in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic rival Al Franken, and the day's rulings turned the challenger's slight deficit into a triple-digit lead.

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Rejected absentee votes may decide it

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By PATRICIA LOPEZ, BOB von STERNBERG - Nov. 23 (News Report) - With the U.S. Senate recount still incomplete, attorneys on both sides have already armored up for the next pitched battle: over whether to reexamine thousands of rejected absentee ballots.

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