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Book Highlight: The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones

by Staff, Center for American Progress, reprinted in Metro CERTS. In The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, acclaimed activist and environmental leader Van Jones tackles the challenges of oil dependence, a sagging economy, and global warming itself, transforming these looming threats into enormous fMORE »

Midwest energy news: Minnesota to cut mercury emissions

by RE-AMP RoundUp • 9/29/08 • The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has announced the state’s largest polluters have agreed to cut their mercury emissions, according to Minnesota Public Radio. Since only ten percent of the states’ mercury comes from local sources, officials say they will pursue international efforts. This and other environmental news from the upper Midwest on the Re-AMP RoundUp newsroom. MORE »

Where is the school nurse? - a survey of Minnesota school nurses

By John Fitzgerald, Minnesota 2020
Minnesotans know that students who are in good health will achieve greater academic success and that good health will help students become happier, more productive adults.MORE »

Ritchie: Changes to Minnesota law should prevent voter-challenge shenanigans and conflicts

By Steve Perry, Minnesota Independent

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says state law makes it tough on would-be vote cagers.

It’s that time again.MORE »

Minnesota unemployment rate hits 22-year high

By Jeff Van Wychen, Minnesota 2020
Minnesota's unemployment rate hit 6.2 percent in August, marking the highest unemployment rate in the state in more than 22 years when the rate hit 6.3 percent in December of 1985.MORE »

The GOP’s Palin bounce; Al Franken’s Barkley bounce

By Steve Perry, Minnesota Independent

The Sarah Palin GOP bounce: mostly--but not entirely--evangelical.

After a couple of weeks on unscheduled hiatus during MnIndy’s coverage of the Republican convention and its aftermath, David Schultz and the Schultz Report are back with us today.MORE »

35W Bridge survivor works to prevent another tragedy

By Conrad deFiebre, Minnesota 2020
Kimberly J. Brown of Minneapolis survived the deadly collapse of the Interstate Hwy. 35W bridge last year.MORE »

In selling parkland to pay bills, mighty Duluth joins little Lilydale

By Chris Steller, Minnesota Independent
Recent headlines out of Duluth haven’t been pretty — except when they’ve been over pictures of the Tiffany window that the city may auction off to get out of a $6.5 million budget hole.MORE »

VOICES | State grant program fuels Minnesota's economic future

By David B. Laird, Minnesota 2020
There were more than 65,000 high school graduates in Minnesota last spring, a number we will not soon see again - the number of high school graduates will fall by 9 percent between now and 2014.

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Brand-new ‘moderate’: Candidate Paulsen runs away from Republicans — and his own record

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent

Paulsen: Running from his party as fast as he can.

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