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News Day 2/11/09: MN to Somali / Salting the lakes / Schools slash spending / more …

Minneapolis to Somalia Leaders in the Somali and Muslim community denied that a Minneapolis mosque had anything to do with recent disappearances of young Somali men from the Twin Cities, blaminMORE »

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News Day 2/10/08: Professor President and the press / God wants Norm? / MN "People's Bailout" / more ...

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

Maybe smart is the new black? The first presidential press conference got good reviews, despite, or perhaps because of, President Obama's detailed, professorial answers to questions.MORE »

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News Day - Feb. 9: Stimulus & sabotage; Fletcher's cops go to jail; City pays protester; Milking consumers, screwing farmers

Stimulus and sabotage If you want to understand the depths of the country's economic trouble, and what to begin doing about it, Nobel Prize-winning economist Pau Krugman is must reading.MORE »

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News Day - February 6: Real unemployment numbers, Ford and PiPress jobs, early grad proposal

By Mary Turck, News Day blog

Unemployment -- 7.6% or 15.4%? Federal figures released today show 7.6% unemployment in January, up 0.4% over DecembMORE »

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