Curtis GilbertPearson’s Candy Co. wants to start producing Bit-O-Honey at its St. Paul factory. But it says it needs financial help from the state of Minnesota. Read more →
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Archives for November 2013
Dan OlsonThe bank last week agreed to the largest fine ever levied by the government – a $13 billion penalty for mortgage loan abuses leading up to the mortgage meltdown. Read more →
Trisha VolpeInvestigators looking for a man, or possibly two men, who impersonated a police officer and sexually assaulted two women are reminding people that any real officer will tell you his or her name and law enforcement agency. That’s one of the tips Anoka County Commander Paul Sommer shared with me today regarding your rights in Read more →
Brandt WilliamsYou may not know it, but the woman walking her dog next to you in the park, or the business-suited man you pass in the skyway downtown may be carrying pistols. Read more →
A close aide to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will serve as chief-of-staff to incoming mayor Betsy Hodges.
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As we reported this morning, writing a computer algorithm to count ranked-choice ballots isn’t exactly rocket science. It’s intro-level computer science. It turns out that there are way more interesting things you can do with the data file Minneapolis released last week showing all the votes in the Minneapolis mayor’s race. Things like this. That’s Read more →
My conversation with Josephine Fernandez opened my eyes to the realities of travel in the tropical nation of the Philippines that’s made up of more than 7,000 islands. I’ll profile the 54-year-old Fridley resident in a new episode of Minnesota Sounds and Voices today as part of All Things Considered. Fernandez has lived in the Read more →
Gang violence may behind the death of a man shot inside Epic nightclub Nov. 3, according to court documents filed recently in Hennepin County District Court. Police say Tyrone Washington Jr., 27, was shot in the downtown club and found dead outside on the sidewalk around 1 a.m. Homicide investigator Sgt. Emily Dunphy states in Read more →
Tim NelsonDinkytown’s Varsity Theater has the best restrooms in America right now. That’s according to Cintas, a Cincinnati-based restroom supplier and service company. The Varsity’s bathroom joins the ranks of the Field Museum in Chicago, Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio, and the Grand Casino in Biloxi, Miss. “The restroom is absolutely phenomenal…We’ve described it Read more →
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) began keeping track of the race and gender of its civilian and sworn personnel in 2008. According to the data I received from the HCSO for the Lt. June Johnson discrimination complaint story, the numbers of women and racial minorities have increased slightly over the years since then. The Read more →