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The wise transit choice may not be the popular one...yet - Paul Nelson: Rail transit has a much greater leeway of operation and reliability over rubber tire travel in winter. This is the problem that our auto/car system suffers from. The expense to maintain roads in winter is enormous, and the accident rates in winter are high.MORE »
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The 13-year-old who made his plea for "More soccer fields, please" continues to get comments:
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On Minneapolis Park Board has pattern of problems with free speech, Meadowlark Lemon writes: Every couple of years the city council wags the dog, shakes down or shuts down viable, sustainable job growth to take the preassure of the issues they want to seeMORE »
The power of speaking out
This week on a 6 a.m. public radio station news I heard the broadcaster say that President Obama "and his wife" are in Europe.
They are on Official Government Business.
I wrote an email to the station's news manager; he blamed AP "who should have known [her official title] better," and apologized he hadn't caught it.
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They are on Official Government Business.
I wrote an email to the station's news manager; he blamed AP "who should have known [her official title] better," and apologized he hadn't caught it.
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If you think outdoor couches are a hot topic in Minneapolis, take a look at Pittsburgh, writes one reader:
They won the Superbowl then took my couch away!!!MORE »
They won the Superbowl then took my couch away!!!MORE »
Baseball ties that bind
Jean Gabler writes: "I think it is always good to have a little baseball connection to the big events in life.MORE »
Figuring out DC
"A Nobel scientist is more likely to figure out Washington than a career politician is to figure out how to deal with carbon sequestration."
-- Dan Leistikow, the Energy Department's director of public affairs, on Steven Chu's adjustment to his new job as energy secretary, quoted in the New York Times.
Housing prices: Stabilize the market or let them fall?
Stopping the free-fall: Stabilizing Minnesota's housing market, with its proposal for the Minnesota Home Values Guarantee Program sparked comments from readers who disagreed with the proposed solutions. What do you think?MORE »
Your Turn: Talk back on the state of the city in Minneapolis
Mayor Rybak gave the state of the city speech March 25, Scott Russell wrote about it in the TC Daily Planet, and now it's your turn to have your say. Tell us what you think -- as a comment, as an op/ed article, in an email or in a video.
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Bachmann wants Minnesotans ‘armed and dangerous’ against Obama energy policy
During a radio show on Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann described herself as a “foreign correspondent on enemy lines” in Washington, D.C. The Republican congresswoman went on to tell WWTC-AM:
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