Who’s running for Congress in Minnesota in 2020
We’re tracking all the candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
Environment
Why Greater Minnesota lawmakers aren’t thrilled about the state’s new ‘Clean Cars’ rules
Artscape
Gloria Steinem on the ERA, #MeToo and hope
Twin Cities Business
The New Market holds pop-up vendor markets for black-owned businesses
From Other Nonprofit Media
When presidential campaigns end, what happens to the leftover money?
Community Voices
Appreciating Hy Berman and the value of understanding history
Second Opinion
Herbal supplements do not help with weight loss, study finds
Inside MinnPost
MinnRoast 2020 lineup explodes💥
Economy
Is Duluth in the Rust Belt?
Environment
Coal play: How lawmakers want to encourage seasonally cutting coal use in Minnesota
The measure, deemed the “coal holiday bill,” got its first hearing in a Minnesota House committee on Tuesday.
New Americans
Dawson’s Muslim doctor: Three years after being in the national spotlight, he splits time between Minnesota and the UAE
MinnPost caught up with Dr. Ayaz Virji, who moved with his family to Minnesota in 2013 and experienced some tensions after Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim campaign rhetoric in 2016.
Artscape
Redrum! Minnesota Opera to bring back ‘The Shining’; Theatre Pro Rata stages play in planetarium
ALSO: Third Thursday: Afrofuturism at Mia; Lauren Gunderson’s “Silent Sky” at the Bell Museum; and more.
Eric Black Ink
How little today’s presidential election process resembles the framers’ intent
For the first hundred years of the republic, presidential candidates were expected to stay home, say nothing specific about what they would do if elected, and modestly and demurely do nothing by way of gauche self-promotion. Seriously.
Second Opinion
Women who get too little sleep are more likely to overeat and have poor diets, study finds
Not getting enough sleep was found to be particularly associated with eating more added sugars and more food in general.
Community Voices
Astros scandal: Roy Hobbs gets sucker punched
There shouldn’t be any Major League Baseball World Series winner for 2017.
State Government
Frey jumps into the fray as GOP legislators make issue of crime in Minneapolis, St. Paul
Running against big cities has long been part of GOP election campaigns. It is especially potent when there are no Republicans elected from those cities, as in the case in Minnesota.
Good Jobs
DEED revamps grant process in wake of pushback from nonprofits
The current round of changes is focused on easing bureaucracy, paperwork and monitoring the agency has decided is redundant or unhelpful.
National
What’s behind Rep. Betty McCollum’s most recent run-in with AIPAC
After the group compared the St. Paul representative to ISIS, McCollum accused it of weaponizing antisemitism and hate.
