Parking issues
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Today’s guest post comes from Clyde. Continue Reading
Home health care workers seek right to organize in Minnesota
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It’s estimated that more than forty thousand people in Minnesota provide home health care for elderly or disabled people. Some of them have the power to form a union, but fifteen to twenty thousand of these Personal Care Assistants (PCA’s) work under the direction of the person receiving the health care. And they can’t, by state law, organize or bargain for their wages.
Central Corridor finishes heavy construction phase
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Work on the Central Corridor Light Rail line is on schedule and planners say the 2012 construction season was a success. The track is in place and the 18 stations are largely built.
Sustainable energy advocates make case for wind
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The advocacy group Environment Minnesota says Minnesota’s current investment in wind energy reduces the kind of pollution that’s connected with climate change. Wind energy’s reduction in greenhouse gasses is the equivalent of taking 757,000 cars off the road per year. Minnesota has also suffered from severe drought this year, and the group says wind power saves enough water to meet the needs of 59,800 Minnesotans.
Healing Minnesota Stories’ Dakota Commemorative March concludes on November 13 with ceremony at Fort Snelling
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Following the Dakota – U.S. War of 1862, approximately 1,700 Dakota people – women, children and elders, were set on a 150 mile forced march to imprisonment near the site of Fort Snelling. They were assaulted en route and held in brutal conditions through the winter. Hundreds died.
Frac sand singing: Todd Melby and filmmaker Jim Tittle on silica mining in Wisconsin and Minnesota
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Small towns in southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin are the focus of intense attention from mining companies looking for silica sand. The sand is used in the hydraulic fracturing process that frees oil and natural gas from rock formations in several places around the U.S., most notably Pennsylvania and North Dakota.
A Donald Trump why-ku
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TV talk show producers, bloggers and assignment editors are asking themselves today why they continue to pay attention to Donald Trump. His “blockbuster announcement”, promoted for days through various news and entertainment venues, turned out to be an offer to donate 5 million dollars to a charity of President Obama’s choosing if the president releases his academic and passport records. Continue Reading
University of Minnesota researcher Gary Muehlbauer on significance of decoded barley genome
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Barley made the news recently when a group of international researchers managed to sequence the genome for barley, said to be one of the world’s most important and genetically complex cereal crops. Results were published in the journal Nature. Apparently this work could lead to higher barley yields, better resistance to pests, and enhanced nutritional value.
John Barleycorn, exposed: Could sequencing of barley genome mean climate change-proof beer?
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Barley made the news yesterday, in part thanks to a Minnesota scientist. Continue Reading
Art and eat: ‘In Our Nature’ and a FIKA lunch, at the American Swedish Institute
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Today’s guest blog is a group entry by Barbara in Robbinsdale, Sherrilee, Plain Jane, tim, and a bystander who took a pi Continue Reading