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November 13, 2014 3:37 AM

Met Council grants to support development along rail lines

The Metropolitan Council is encouraging new housing, walkways, bike paths and other projects through several grants.

by Peter Cox

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November 12, 2014 4:11 PM

#pointergate means spotlight, donations for small nonprofit

Even before the recent KSTP report, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change has enjoyed growing influence in Minneapolis city politics.

by Curtis Gilbert

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November 12, 2014 3:04 PM

Are high re-election rates a sign that democracy is broken in America?

Voters hold Congress in low regard, yet they re-elect almost everyone.

by Michael Olson

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November 12, 2014 5:04 AM

Broadband providers seek $44 million from state fund

All the money must go to projects that will provide high-speed Internet access to areas that have no or poor service.

by Dave Peters

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November 12, 2014 3:12 AM

Crashed Ice skate race returns to St. Paul in January

Energy drink giant Red Bull brings the wild ice racing back to St. Paul, just in time for the winter carnival. Women will compete here for the first time.

by Tim Nelson

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November 12, 2014 2:54 AM

Student volunteers rally with celebrities for WE day in St. Paul

Students had to earn WE Day tickets.

by Jon Collins

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November 11, 2014 11:00 AM

Sixty years after the Korean War, a soldier can't forget

Walter Dziedzic is among nearly 95,000 Minnesotans who served in the Korean War. More than 700 were killed in action.

by Dan Olson

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November 11, 2014 3:28 AM

Does the mass collection of phone records violate the Fourth Amendment?

Legal scholars and courts have been wrangling for more than a year over whether the National Security Agency's collection of millions of Americans' phone records — a program first disclosed to the public by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 — violates those protections.

by MPR News Staff

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November 11, 2014 12:01 AM

'Nice girls don't go in the Army': Vet recalls her service

Ruth Knox was among the more than 100,000 women who enlisted during World War II. Now 95, the Twin Cities native shares her story for Veterans Day.

by Dan Olson

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November 10, 2014 3:45 PM

Twin Cities suburbs file housing complaint against state

Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Richfield and the Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing say state agencies and the Metropolitan Council are intentionally concentrating low-income rental housing in segregated "low opportunity" neighborhoods.

by Sasha Aslanian

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