2 hrs ago | EDGE
Man behind gay marriage drive seen as 'brilliant'
No single person ever became the public face of the successful drive for gay marriage in Minnesota, but the man who gets the most credit from his allies for making it happen is Richard Carlbom.
4 hrs ago | Star Tribune
Cigarette tax could change Minnesota smokers' behavior -- but how?
The new tobacco tax signed into law last week will raise the price of cigarettes in Minnesota by $1.60 a pack, add more than $430 million to state coffers over the next two years and, public health advocates hope, prevent nearly 48,000 young people from taking up the habit.
4 hrs ago | Star Tribune
Rosenblum: Ban the Box a quiet triumph of legislative session
In the final hour of the session, printed copies of the Legislative Wrap-up were delivered to the House.
6 hrs ago | ContactMusic.com
Man Finds Superman Comic Worth $100K+ Whilst Renovating Abandoned House
A Minnesota man found the Holy Grail of comic books whilst renovating a house - with the comic being used as insulation for a wall! A man stumbled across a geek goldmine while renovating an abandoned house on the outskirts of Minneapolis this week, with Minnesotan David Gonzales finding the Holy Grail of comic books among the rumble: the Action ... (more)
10 hrs ago | Star Tribune
Minnesota politics shaped by grassroots involvement
At the State Capitol Governor Mark Dayton signed the gay marriage bill into law in front of several thousand supporters earlier this month.
10 hrs ago | Star Tribune
Minnesota's priorities for the 2014 Legislature
The 2014-15 Minnesota budget is set - or it will be when Gov. Mark Dayton affixes his signature to the last of the 10 omnibus tax and spending bills approved by 2013 Legislature before its regular session expired at 12 a.m. May 21.
10 hrs ago | Star Tribune
Minnesota Legislature and campaign implications
The 2013 Legislature was an all-DFL show. But to hear legislators from the two parties tell it, the session was a "win-win." I consider that fact a marker of how wide the gulf between Minnesota's parties remains, even though the voters consigned one of those parties to minority status in 2012.
13 hrs ago | CBS Local
Esme's Blog: Tracking Refinery Shutdowns
Driving yesterday I found myself suddenly, and very briefly, excited to see gas at $4.09 a gallon.
17 hrs ago | Examiner.com
Healthy living 101: Is fluoride safe?
A recent meta-analysis , performed at Harvard Department of Environmental Health, concluded: The results support the possibility of an adverse effect of high fluoride exposure on children's neurodevelopment.
21 hrs ago | Star Tribune
Student loan rates must remain manageable
Earlier this month, I visited the University of Minnesota to hear from students about the impact of student debt.
St. Paul mystery writer tells a story from the heart
St. Paul author William Kent Krueger knew he was taking a chance when he strayed from his beloved Cork O'Connor mystery series.
Insurers submit plans for Minnesota health care exchange
The new marketplace for health coverage under Obamacare debuts this fall, but details and prices of the policies are still unknown.
Minnesota farmers recover from late planting start
Much of Minnesota's crop is in the ground, despite a late-ending winter and spring rains that kept farmers out of the fields.
A next-generation model for MinnesotaCare
For all the heated rhetoric about the Affordable Care Act being a rigid, top-down approach to health care, the 2010 federal health reform law in reality gives states abundant opportunities to innovate, and often the additional funding needed to make it happen.
Fox Pups Moved From Minnesota To Indiana
Finally at Five...some native Minnesotans have a new home in Indiana. Wolf Park is located near the town of Battle Ground and the latest addition to the family are three gray fox pups from a facility in Minnesota.
GOES 13 Satellite goes down as hurricane season nears; Partly showery weekend
NOAA's eye in the sky for the East Coast and Atlantic went down this week for the second time in the past few months.
Memorial Day weekend: (almost) no sticker shock on gas prices
A gas station attendant pumps gas in Portland, Ore., May 2012. Aside from states in the upper Midwest, gasoline prices at the start of the 2013 Memorial Day weekend are about the same as last year, averaging $3.66 a gallon nationwide, according to AAA.
Teen birth rate plummets more than 30 percent in Minnesota
Our STD rate might be on the rise , but at least Minnesota's teens are having safer sex: Between 2007 and 2011, the number of teens giving birth in the state dropped by more than 30 percent.
Poll: Buying beers on Sunday is way more popular than DFL, MNGOP, or Mark Dayton
Today, Public Policy Polling released its end-of-session snapshot of the popularity of Minnesota's elected officials.
Minnesota news in brief at 7:58 p.m. CDT
St. Paul authorities shut down a popular fossil-hunting area in a riverside park Thursday, one day after two children were killed and two others injured by a landslide.