Living green is an acceptable lifestyle today, but its advocates do not rest easy on past victories. Nowhere is this more true than at the level of state and local politics, where environmental issues are often as contentious as any.
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In the gritty boxer-producing town of Bayonne, N.J., Frank Kroncke was born into a popular Irish-American myth: The first-born son carries out the family name, the second son is disobedient and the third enters the Catholic priesthood.
Although a few congressional Democrats have tried to push a bill to reinstate the military draft, no change in the current volunteer armed services is in sight for 2008.
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Help is on the way for struggling young adults in Dakota County in the form of accessible housing.
On Super Tuesday, as DFL caucus goers at Brooklyn Center High School filled out Post-it notes instead of ballots for presidential polling, record Democratic turnout caught state party organizers off guard.
I spoke with both Buck Humphrey, state director of the Hillary Clinton campaign in Minnesota and Michael Donovan, one of Barak Obama's top Chicago interns. I asked each why he thought this election was drawing so much attention and why voters should choose one candidate over another to represent the DFL.
Peacekeeping is not just for armies. There are groups that specialize in non-violent intervention in conflict areas all over the world that don’t carry guns, drive tanks or fly fighter planes. One of those groups is headquartered in Minneapolis.
After he stood in line for more than three hours, Minneapolis resident Todd Mitchell was one of the first inside the Target Center to hear the views of presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Obama rallied a sold-out audience on February 2 in downtown Minneapolis, three days before the Minnesota caucuses.