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How police-officer candidates are screened in Minnesota

How Minnesota determines who’s fit — and unfit — to be a police officer

There’s no perfect screening process. But Minnesota police departments do make an attempt to identify would-be officers that exhibit troubling behaviors.

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Calls to poison control centers about dietary supplements up 50 percent in recent years

By Susan Perry | 07/25/17

Yohimbe, which is derived from the bark of an African evergreen tree and often sold in pill or tablet form, was responsible for the largest proportion of serious medical outcomes.

New Americans

For media and Minnesota's Somali community, coverage of Damond shooting complicates an already complicated relationship

By Ibrahim Hirsi | 07/24/17

Throughout the three decades Somali-Americans have lived in Minnesota, they’ve had a complex relationship with mainstream media — an experience that's become especially fraught in the last decade.

Politics & Policy

Was a youth volleyball tournament really worth $50 million to Minneapolis?

By Greta Kaul | 07/24/17

A look at the opaque world of convention-bureau math.

Mental Health & Addiction

Tim Walsh: Minnesota’s mental health and addiction care relies heavily on Medical Assistance

By Andy Steiner | 07/24/17

“In Minnesota, Medical Assistance affects the whole continuum of mental health services,” says Tim Walsh of Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge.

New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci

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An early look at how Anthony Scaramucci will serve Trump

By Eric Black | 07/24/17

Scaramucci’s main defense against the aggressive questions he received on the Sunday talk shows is that his job is to say what the president wants said.

Second Opinion

Stem-cell clinics are using a federal website as a marketing tool for unproven treatments, U of M bioethicist says

By Susan Perry | 07/24/17

Often, there is no hint on ClinicalTrials.gov that these are “pay-to-participate” stem-cell studies. Patients discover that only when they call the clinic to ask about enrolling.

MNopedia

July, 1967: Civil unrest on Plymouth Avenue

By Susan Marks | 07/24/17

The violence, which lasted for three nights, is often linked with other race-related demonstrations in cities across the nation during 1967’s “long hot summer.”

The Glean

Allianz wins naming rights for new soccer stadium

By MinnPost staff | 07/25/17

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How Minnesota determines who’s fit — and unfit — to be a police officer

The latest way local governments are trying to combat the Twin Cities' affordable housing crisis

Would failure of Obamacare repeal in the Senate be the straw that gets Democrats and Republicans to work together on health reform?

How to deceive without actually lying: a tale of TV hype (with charts)

A dozen must-see shows at the Fringe; Pharoah Sanders at the Dakota

MinnPost Picks: on ICE, addiction, and creating the pet fox

The Boundary Waters belongs to all of us

Calls to poison control centers about dietary supplements up 50 percent in recent years

For media and Minnesota's Somali community, coverage of Damond shooting complicates an already complicated relationship

Was a youth volleyball tournament really worth $50 million to Minneapolis?

Tim Walsh: Minnesota’s mental health and addiction care relies heavily on Medical Assistance

An early look at how Anthony Scaramucci will serve Trump

Stem-cell clinics are using a federal website as a marketing tool for unproven treatments, U of M bioethicist says

July, 1967: Civil unrest on Plymouth Avenue

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Allianz wins naming rights for new soccer stadium

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