What is the Border-to-Border Touring Route, and why are some groups resisting it?
The DNR has settled on a 750-mile route that it plans to soon mark with signage and begin promoting as an “adventure trail.”
Gregg Aamot
Gregg Aamot is a longtime Minnesota journalist and college instructor. After getting his start at a newspaper in rural Minnesota, he spent a decade with The Associated Press in Minneapolis, reporting from many regions of the state. Aamot is the author of “The New Minnesotans: Stories of Immigrants and Refugees” and teaches English at Ridgewater College.
D.C. Memo: Shots for everyone
Happy Days are Here Again! (OK, maybe by sometime this summer); the Dems push bipartisanship aside; things are looking good for Minnesota farmers; and more.
How the MPCA approaches its push toward environmental equity
Among the Walz administration’s efforts, its proposed budget would allow the MPCA to beef up its enforcement of emissions standards – the lack of which, the agency says, often creates inequities.
D.C. Memo: Hoping this email ends up in the right hands
Klobuchar calls the Capitol riot ‘planned’; Biden faces challenges ahead; COVID deaths reach a sad milestone; and more.
D.C. Memo: Dour, sullen, but always smiling
The former president gets sued, impeachment vote divides a family and the GOP braces for the Tea Party, Round 2.
D.C. Memo: More like the BideMN Administration
Trump’s second impeachment trial gets under way; the parties do battle over pandemic proposals; and some Minnesotans gain influential posts.
D.C. Memo: Hot Investigations, Oversight and Regulations Subcommittee news inside
A look at the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump; House votes to punish Marjorie Taylor Greene; and more.
D.C. Memo: It’s been one week
Biden’s COVID experts; new coronavirus relief package; GOP objects to impeachment; and more.
D.C. Memo: The Klobuchar inauguration
What Minnesota’s delegation said about the inauguration, and more.
D.C. Memo: Most impeached president, ever
Minnesota’s delegation splits on impeachment vote; Klobuchar prepares to take the lead on Capitol riot investigation; and the feds tell Minnesota to expand COVID-19 vaccinations.
Scientific panel with U prof hopes review of Trump water rules gains traction with Biden administration
The report says Trump-era rules erased Clean Water Act protection for more than half of the wetlands in the United States and for 18 percent of the country’s streams.
D.C. Memo: All coup’d up
Omar drafts articles of impeachment; Fischbach sworn in; Emmer opposes $2,000 stimulus checks; and more.
D.C. Memo: Dean of the Problem Solvers
This week: House Republicans back a last-ditch election lawsuit; Omar softens her tone while Phillips toughens his.
D.C. Memo: Pony up
This week: Stillwater’s Denis McDonough joins the Biden administration; Republicans remain silent; and Dylan keeps being Dylan.
D.C. Memo: The Minnesota turkey vote
This week: Jake Sullivan talks diplomacy in a Biden administration, lawmakers eye more COVID relief, and the AP takes note of state Sen. Tom Bakk’s party switch.
Can solar power lead the Red Lake Nation toward energy independence?
In September, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa started working on the second phase of a 12-step solar project, a 240-kilowatt array atop the reservation’s workforce center in Red Lake.
How a citizen-led group hopes to keep invasive species out of the Boundary Waters
The group has managed to boost watercraft inspections on some lakes in the Ely area and to begin inspections on other lakes that have never been monitored for invasive species. But the region is vast.
No more ‘range anxiety’? How the MPCA, companies hope to allay a nagging concern about electric cars
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will fund the installation of as many as 38 “fast-charging” stations across the state – from Fairmont in the south to Warroad on the Canadian border.
MPCA unveils pilot program to fund six electric school buses in Minnesota
The agency is using money from the state’s share of a $2.9 billion settlement the federal government reached in 2016 with Volkswagen over the German car maker’s violation of emissions standards.
How the city of Baxter, in Minnesota lakes country, added 638 acres of woods to its footprint
The woodlands next to Camp Ripley, part of a landscape area designated for protection from development, promise to provide a wealth of hiking, canoeing and other outdoor pursuits.
