Michael OlsonArrival of 2014 marked with new year celebrations in Auckland, New Zealand http://t.co/sXsklLf4fq #NYE pic.twitter.com/1fdlRhHBXR — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 31, 2013 Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s wish for 2014: ‘An end to online hate’ I’d settle for people being nicer to one another on the internet. My general rule is, if you wouldn’t have the Read more →
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Sen. Mark Dayton once gave himself a failing grade for his time in Washington. He’d spent millions of his own fortune to get elected but left after one term, frustrated by his inability to get things done, writes MPR News reporter Mark Zdechlik. It’s an altogether different story for Gov. Mark Dayton. He’s found the Read more →
“Since 2010, U.S. manufacturers have added 665,000 jobs. Now some economists say that doesn’t mean much. Manufacturing lost nearly 7 million jobs in the 30 years before that, so historically this could be just a blip. They expect job losses will soon continue in the long, sad story about the decline of manufacturing jobs in Read more →
“The perennial debate about whether to lift Minnesota’s ban on Sunday liquor sales could get fizzier in the 2014 legislative session as citizen activists make a strong push to rally craft beer drinkers to their cause,” writes Jon Collins for MPR News. They face an uphill battle against influential business associations, a strong union and Read more →
The massive data breach at Target stores has justly angered many customers who are trying to protect their identity. While a breach of this scale isn’t common, personal information is inadvertently released, or stolen every day. “In a recent report, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics found that total losses attributed to identity theft in Read more →
Nine-in-ten Americans say they celebrate Christmas, but the meaning of the holiday is changing for many according to a new report by the Pew Research Religion & Public Life project. Only about half see Christmas mostly as a religious holiday, while one-third view it as more of a cultural holiday. Virtually all Christians (96%) celebrate Read more →
“California is regarded as the leading state when it comes to addressing climate change. But in 2012, according to analysts at Rhodium Group, California’s carbon emissions actually increased more than 10 percent, bucking the national trend of decreases. That’s in large part because California shut down one of its few remaining nuclear power plants,” writes Read more →
(Bradley Simke/Flickr) “One in two adults takes a daily vitamin pill, and Americans spend tens of billions of dollars each year on supplements. Now, a small coterie of physicians writing in a leading medical journal has offered this blunt advice: ‘Stop wasting money,’” writes Roni Caryn Rabin in the New York Times. In an unusually Read more →
Grand Rapids became the first Minnesota locality to take a stand against plastic shopping bags, when the City Council unanimously passed a resolution urging citizens to “work toward decreasing their consumption of plastic bags” by instead shopping with reusable bags,” writes Dan Kraker for MPR News. Today’s Question: Would you support a ban on plastic Read more →
“Saturday marks the anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 20 children and six educators dead. And a year later, questions still remain about gunman Adam Lanza, who committed suicide that day and worked hard to obscure his motives,” writes NPR’s Jeff Cohen. “At least 194 children have been shot to Read more →