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Stories from July 9, 2019

A fisherman's hope for balance between urban development and natural conservation

A fisherman's hope for balance between urban development and natural conservation

Minneapolis has proposed plans to develop the Mississippi riverfront with affordable housing, innovation hubs and a large outdoor amphitheater. Nicholas Hammer, a northside resident who's continuing a family tradition of fishing the Mississippi, hopes it can be done while protecting the beauty in and around the river.
by Gabriel Kwan

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Minnesota's newest National Guard general is a trailblazer

Minnesota's newest National Guard general is a trailblazer

Stefanie Horvath was promoted Tuesday from colonel to Minnesota National Guard brigadier general. She is the Guard's first openly lesbian general.
by Brian Bakst

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Castle Danger to halt growler sales

Castle Danger to halt growler sales

The Two Harbors brewery's last day of growler sales is Sept. 30 because a state law dictates they can't be sold after a brewer passes 20,000 barrels of beer sold annually.

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Numbers suggest progress on opioid fight

Numbers suggest progress on opioid fight

State health officials say new data suggest progress is being made in the opioid epidemic with preliminary numbers released Tuesday showing a significant drop in opioid overdose deaths from 2017 to 2018.
by Mark Zdechlik

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Second banana in porn troll case gets five years

Second banana in porn troll case gets five years

John Steele, who helped with the prosecution of his porn troll partner, Paul Hansmeier, was sentenced in Minneapolis to five years in prison. Steele and Hansmeier ran an extortion scheme involving pornographic videos.
by Martin Moylan

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Ramsey County deputies to wear body cameras by summer's end

Ramsey County deputies to wear body cameras by summer's end

Ramsey County sheriff's deputies will start wearing body cameras by the end of this summer, according to Sheriff Bob Fletcher. The sheriff said his office will not share body camera video with ICE.
by Brandt Williams

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Women of Faith: Searching for God

Women of Faith: Searching for God

Anjali Kumar met with witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, and a faith healer in Brazil, in a quest to find her spiritual home. What she found wasn't what she sought.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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A history of the Pledge of Allegiance

A history of the Pledge of Allegiance

The Pledge of Allegiance has become an ingrained part of American culture, but how did it come to be? Here's a look at the history of the pledge.
by Simone Cazares

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Cities and immigrants drove census controversy -- 100 years ago

Cities and immigrants drove census controversy -- 100 years ago

A century ago, debate over immigration and urban-rural power stalled congressional action on the results of the census. The tensions that mattered then still persist a century later.
by Ron Elving

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Plastic has a big carbon footprint -- but that isn't the whole story

Plastic has a big carbon footprint -- but that isn't the whole story

Plastic waste litters cities, oceans and even the air. Largely overlooked is how making plastic affects the environment. Plastic is a big contributor to global warming. So are its alternatives.
by Christopher Joyce

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Thunderstorms cause flooding, tree damage around Fargo

Torrential rain and strong winds caused street flooding and brought down trees and branches in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota.
by Associated Press

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Happy birthday to rock musician Jack White

He's celebrating with an evening acoustic set (with Raconteurs bandmate Brendan Benson) at his Third Man Records store in Detroit.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Klobuchar calls for labor secretary to quit for role in financier's sex plea

Klobuchar calls for labor secretary to quit for role in financier's sex plea

A growing collection of congressional Democrats say President Trump's labor secretary should resign because of his role in a 2008 plea deal that let a billionaire financier escape prison time for alleged sex crimes.
by The Associated Press

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Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot dies at 89

Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot dies at 89

Perot, whose 19 percent of the vote in 1992 presidential election stands among the best showings by an independent candidate in the past century, died early Tuesday at his home in Dallas surrounded by his devoted family, family spokesperson James Fuller said.
by The Associated Press

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The Affordable Care Act is back in court: 5 facts you need to know

The Affordable Care Act is back in court: 5 facts you need to know

The ACA is again being put to the test, after a lower court judge ruled the massive health law unconstitutional. The case might yet ricochet back to the Supreme Court ahead of the 2020 election.
by Julie Rovner

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Equal pay for equal play: U.S. women's soccer team tackles its next quest

Equal pay for equal play: U.S. women's soccer team tackles its next quest

Fresh off its fourth Women's World Cup title, the U.S. Women's National Team has its eyes set on another prize: more money. The women make less than their male counterparts.
by Tom Goldman

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23 U.S. governors join Calif. in opposing Trump mileage freeze

23 U.S. governors join Calif. in opposing Trump mileage freeze

The commitment underscores prospects for years of legal challenges and regulatory uncertainty for automakers if the Trump administration moves ahead on the mileage freeze over objections from California and other states.
by The Associated Press

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How a grocery store's plan to shame customers into using reusable bags backfired

How a grocery store's plan to shame customers into using reusable bags backfired

A Canadian grocery store put embarrassing slogans, such as "Wart Ointment Wholesale" and "Into the Weird Adult Video Emporium," on plastic bags to get customers to use reusable shopping bags. Instead, people began flocking to the market, paying 5 cents each in hopes of collecting the designs.
by Serena McMahon

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Requiem for Lobo, the misunderstood killer wolf of Bemidji

Requiem for Lobo, the misunderstood killer wolf of Bemidji

Displayed for decades outside Morrell's Chippewa Trading Post, Lobo's snarling, stuffed remains fed his legend as a North Woods monster. These days, Lobo kindles more pity than fear. With attitudes shifting toward wolves, some in Bemidji say it's time to bury the past.
by John Enger

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Daily Digest: Pledge debate draws crowd

Stories from around Minnesota about government and politics.
by Bill Wareham

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Smart and propulsive 'Copperhead' asks: Can you outrun your family's sins?

Smart and propulsive 'Copperhead' asks: Can you outrun your family's sins?

Alexi Zentner's new novel follows a high school football star's efforts to separate himself from his racist family. It's an unsparing story about race, class and the limits of individual possibility.
by Maureen Corrigan

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In 'For the Good of the Game,' Bud Selig tells of the MLB steroid era

In 'For the Good of the Game,' Bud Selig tells of the MLB steroid era

The baseball commissioner's charming, informative memoir is about the best you can hope to read from a powerful professional sports insider -- even if Selig is too defensive on steroids.
by Scott Detrow

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In 'The Book of Collateral Damage,' an accounting of what Baghdad lost

In 'The Book of Collateral Damage,' an accounting of what Baghdad lost

The novelist and poet Sinan Antoon, raised in Iraq and now living in New York, returned home following the 2003 U.S. occupation. That experience inspired his new work of fiction.
by Steve Inskeep

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Scene at St. Louis Park pledge protest is far from indivisible

Scene at St. Louis Park pledge protest is far from indivisible

The City Council had voted to stop the routine recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at its meetings. Protesters objected.
by Nina Moini

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Teen odds of using marijuana dip with recreational use laws

Teen odds of using marijuana dip with recreational use laws

One reason may be that it's harder and costlier for teens to buy marijuana from licensed dispensaries than from dealers, said lead author Mark Anderson, a health economist at Montana State University.
by Associated Press

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