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desks and nameplates on the floor of the Minnesota House, there were
theater-style seats assigned by slips of sticky paper, while a small
lectern stood in for the Speaker of the House's usual podium. There was a
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Saturday, 13 June 2015
Legislature passes budget bills after dramatic special session
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The near death — and second life — of the North Star Bicycle Festival
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t took nearly 20 minutes for David LaPorte, director of the North Star Bicycle Festival,
to weave the story of how close the event came to extinction. He laid
it out on a sunny morning in Dinkytown earlier this week, at a coffee
shop not far from his office at the University of Minnesota, where...
A walk in the woonerfs: rethinking a realm for bicyclists, pedestrians and cars
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In my neighborhood of South St. Anthony Park in St. Paul, we tend to treat our alley like a woonerf.
That’s not an autocorrect you’re reading, but a Dutch word for a
“living street” designed specifically so that slow-moving vehicles,
bicyclists and pedestrians can peacefully co-exist. In our...
Well that was awkward: With trade-deal vote looming, Congressional Baseball Game gets political
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WASHINGTON
— One night every summer, Democratic and Republican members of Congress
trade their suits and ties for cleats and gloves in a longtime D.C.
tradition: the Congressional Baseball Game. It’s meant to be a way for
lawmakers to mingle and engage in a little good-natured bipartisan
bonhomie,...
How Senate DFLers are becoming like Republicans
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Republican state Sen. Dave Thompson had been noticing it throughout
the Legislative session: a growing fissure between urban and Greater
Minnesota legislators in the Senate DFL caucus.
The urban-rural, moderate-conservative rift is old hat for Republicans, but this year it has beset Senate DFLers.
“One
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The art and science of construction detours in Minnesota
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The word “detour” comes from the
French, meaning “to turn away” or “change direction.” But it can also
mean “evasion” or “excuse,” and as any driver knows, Minnesota’s
contracted construction season can be synonymous with frustration.
Though
it might seem like a simple matter of erecting orange...
The new Mill City High will be unlike any other school in Minneapolis
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John Miller had been teaching pretty happily for a quarter of a
century when it occurred to him that he was in a position to fix the
sundry small discontents of his professional life by dreaming up and
opening his own school.
This fall, after nearly four years of
planning, scheming, grant-writing...
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