Wanna buy your way onto the Minneapolis mayoral ballot? Fee could rise to $250
The current fee is $20, one reason the city voters saw a 35-candidate mayoral ballot last year. But a tentative supporter says higher fees won’t mean fewer candidates.
David Brauer
David Brauer has been a reporter for local alt-weeklies and magazines, a community newspaper editor, a radio talk show host and a national freelancer.
Al Franken’s first 2014 campaign TV ad debuts
The meat-and-potatoes ad links jobs to education and features an employer from Michele Bachmann’s district.
Star Tribune, Pioneer Press Sunday print circulation drops 5 percent amid digital growth
The Pioneer Press’s Sunday “digital replica” — a print-paper PDF — posted a 61 percent circulation gain, while the Strib’s rose 17.2 percent.
Greene, Mavity advance in Hennepin commissioner race to succeed Dorfman
Greene won the Minneapolis side of Hennepin District 3; Mavity won the St. Louis Park side. Both advance to the May 13 general election.
The Last-Minute Hennepin County Candidate-Picking Tool
If you’re still stumped for a choice in Tuesday’s Hennepin County Commissioner election to succeed Gail Dorfman, have we got a tool for you!
Could minimum-wage indexing be worse for workers than what legislators have done?
Monday’s deal on automatic pay hikes produces much smaller pay hikes than the Legislature has approved traditionally — depending on when you start counting.
In the classroom at 53, amid the freshmen
So what’s it like for a 53-year-old college senior who winds up in two classes entirely of freshmen?
Star Tribune CEO fights Dayton’s business sales tax
Mike Klingensmith estimates a sales-tax expansion could cost the recently stabilized paper up to 40 percent of its pre-tax earnings.
Karma’s knife-twist: I have to take freshman comp
How does an aging student go about going back to school? With shamelessness and a rueful appreciation of fate.
Amy Koch media saga: Who did what and when
There’s media deliciousness in the fascinating tale of how information moved in the fall of the former state Senate majority leader.
Return to the U: The Confession
Today marks my first First Day of School since the Reagan administration. (Am I nervous? Yes.)
In a massive winter power outage, how would Minnesotans heat their homes?
With a cold snap on the way, consider this: New federal rules require electric-dependent furnaces and boilers.
Jeff Dubay hired as 1500 ESPN co-host
The former crack cocaine abuser gets new professional life on a new sports station, but how well will he wear professionally and personally?
Fall 2012 radio ratings: What’s going on with talk?
After a year of music-station reprogramming, nearly every local talk station’s are down.
Fighting for relevance, 1500 ESPN shuffles lineup
With ratings slumping and Twins rights gone, Hubbard Broadcasting moves Joe Soucheray out of afternoon drive.
If Ryan strikes a Star Tribune land deal for Wells Fargo, keep your eye on the subsidy
Ryan’s dreamscape described as office buildings, a parking ramp, two full blocks of public parkland — and potentially more public subsidy.
Star Tribune denies own land-sale story, but what if deal goes through?
I don’t do a “Media Year in Review,” but if I did, here’s a great new entrant: “Star Tribune denies own story.”
Minnesota news media: Who tops the Twitter 1,000
I will follow: MinnPost’s first rankings of 1,040 local media Twitter accounts.
PPP Polling, Minnesota editorial pages nail state election
Who says pollsters are wrong and newspaper editorial pages have no effect?
Star Tribune editor: ‘If you want to campaign, put down your journalist’s badge’
Social networking earns staff rebuke from editor Nancy Barnes.
