Education
Artscape
Art Crawl and Classical Music Crawl this weekend in St. Paul
Second Opinion
The overhyping and overselling of mindfulness
Community Voices
The cost of inaction on paid family and medical leave
Environment
Why mining issues aren’t really up for discussion at the Minnesota Legislature this year
Arts & Culture
How the Bell Museum revived its original set of Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’
Artscape
Book events plentiful in run-up to Wordplay
The Loft’s star-studded Wordplay festival of readers, writers and books is just a little over two weeks away, with Stephen King leading the charge of famous authors.
Eric Black Ink
Impeachment: only 2 so far, and no convictions
You know about Bill Clinton. The other impeachee was post-Civil War President Andrew Johnson, who was charged (impeached) by the House, and came within one vote of being convicted (removed) by the Senate.
From Other Nonprofit Media
No verdict in sight on safety of crumb rubber fields, prompting angst all around
More than three years after the study began, federal agencies have not issued any safety findings from their highly anticipated crumb rubber study.
Second Opinion
Media often ignore ethical concerns about medical crowdfunding, study finds
“In several of the articles in which unproven therapies were being sought, there was no mention of the possibility of inefficacy or the experimental nature of the intervention,” the researchers said.
Community Voices
Community is at the heart of what makes a city
The conversation on gentrification needs to shift to people first. Who lives in the neighborhood? What are their stories? What are their needs? How can they use their talents to create the change they want to see in their community?
National
In his first few months in Congress, First District Rep. Jim Hagedorn has stayed true to Trump. Will his district?
From tariffs to Obamacare, Hagedorn has hewed closely to the president.
State Government
HAVA, Russian hackers and provisional ballots: How an ‘early win’ became a legislative quagmire
Approving Minnesota’s allocation of the Help America Vote Act for election security was supposed to be easy. It has been anything but.
Inside MinnPost
MinnPost’s own Jim Walsh joins his brother, Terry, at MinnRoast for a special musical act
MinnRoast is the highlight of Minnesota’s political calendar. Every year politicians, journalists, actors, and muscians converge at the State Theatre to gently skewer Minnesota politics and each other.