Politics & Policy
Community Voices
Josie Johnson: risk taker, trailblazer, equality champion, role model
National
Health scare 2018: How Minnesota campaigns are exploiting voters’ anxiety over health care
Politics & Policy
Political ad spending tops $71 million in Minnesota
D.C. Memo
D.C. Memo: Everything old is Newt again
Eric Black Ink
Another upgrade: Klobuchar seen as 6th most likely 2020 Dem nominee
Artscape
Twin Cities Horror Festival wants to scare you; Inuit prints at Highpoint
ALSO: The Haunted Basement is back; The Zeitgeist Halloween Festival 2018; Trylon’s William Castle Fright Fest; and more.
Earth Journal
A new way of seeing species extinction, and humans’ impact on other mammals
Some species count more than others in our ‘evolutionary history’ — should we save them first?
Second Opinion
U.S. life expectancy ranking will plummet by 2040, researchers predict
Americans will be living longer by 2040, but that improvement in lifespan will not be as great as that of many other countries around the world.
State Government
The 15 Minnesota House races (and one Senate race) to watch in 2018
A Senate special election puts both chambers in play this year.
Community Voices
Minnesota knows the way to cut carbon — now we need the will
Twelve years. That’s all the time we have to make one degree of change.
Politics & Policy
From mainstream to extinct: A look back at the GOP’s progressive era in Minnesota
Former U.S. Sen. Dave Durenberger traces the origins of his party’s progressive tilt back to the election of Harold Stassen as Minnesota’s governor in 1938.
Education
MN Reconnect: New adult learner program at 4 Minnesota State campuses aims to help those with prior credits cross the finish line
“But our goal is, really, to get all colleges in Minnesota on this pathway towards serving adult learners better, especially former students,” said Meredith Fergus, head of the MN Reconnect program.
Artscape
‘Holiday Inn’ dazzles at the Chanhassen; Minnesota Bach Ensemble to perform at MacPhail
ALSO: “The Great Society” at the History Theatre; Twin Cities Tap Festival at the Cowles; and more.