Good Jobs
In new report on automation, some good news for Minnesota’s workers
As a region, the Midwest is expected to be highly impacted by automation in the workplace. Minnesota stands out as an exception.
Technology
Community Voices
Tech jobs are key to shrinking Minnesota’s income gap — and growing our economy
Empowering under-represented communities to find jobs in tech isn’t the only way to shrink Minnesota’s income gap, but it’s an important one with a lot of promise.
Politics & Policy
Sidewalks, drunken scootering, and ‘Bird Hunters’: Everything you need to know about the Twin Cities’ new rental scooters
As the Minneapolis City Council considers imposing rules to govern the Bird electric scooter rental service, MinnPost answers your most pressing questions.
Politics & Policy
Minnesota doesn’t have much in the way of military facilities. But the Army’s new Futures Command may be the perfect fit.
By any measure of military footprint Minnesota lags behind its neighboring and peer states.
Politics & Policy
Technology developed for Super Bowl LII has created an expansive new capability for police surveillance
The application, FieldWatch, gives every officer in the field with an iPhone the ability to stream video from his or her location back to a central command center.
Second Opinion
Cybersecurity threats lead list of ‘Top 10 Tech Health Hazards’ for 2018
The technologies examined for the annual list included everything “from beds and stretchers to large, complex imaging systems.”
Politics & Policy
Why Mark Dayton is so cautious about pitching Amazon
In going after Amazon’s HQ2, Dayton has displayed a level of reticence that is at odds with his long history of courting companies to Minnesota.
Good Jobs
New Vision Foundation aims to inspire Minnesota’s young African immigrants to become tech innovators
To prepare them for the tech workforce, which boasts more jobs than workers, the program equips participants with coding experience and certificates. It then connects them to paid internships.
The Stroll
St. Paul folk poetry: network names, from ‘notyourwifi’ to ‘DadUseThisOne’
Culturally, the Wi-Fi network name more or less lands somewhere between a vanity plate (but more democratic) and a custom doormat (but more ephemeral).
Community Voices
Do we really want the future that rapid technological change is bringing?
We stand today at the brink of a major transformation in our relationship to the technology that we’ve created.