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With the state facing a possible $6.2 billion budget shortfall and the governor and lawmakers scrambling to find spending cuts and new revenue to correct the mess, several groups are promoting new gambling proposals as a way to plug the gap. Separate groups are developing two proposals:...

Imagine standing at the plate in a baseball game facing 90-mile-per hour fastballs without a bat because the pitcher says you are not entitled to one. Now picture the umpire ordering the game to continue and calling you out on strikes. That is essentially the position Boeing and General Dynamics fou...

The nation was rocked Saturday morning (Jan. 8) by the senseless tragedy that nearly saw a member of the U.S. House assassinated and did see the death of six people and more than a dozen people injured. It leaves us wondering why a young man could be filled with so much anger toward the “establish...

  TOKYO - Nine percent of Americans think Japan is the world's top economic power, and that raises an obvious question: Huh? If we knew exactly who that current-events-challenged minority was, we could make a bundle sending them e-mails on how to redeem unclaimed fortunes in Nigerian banks. Tha...

 It might not seem like much, but it should be noted that both the Minnesota House and Senate this week took some money-saving action by taking money out of their own pockets. The House Rules Committee on Monday reduced the maximum housing allowance by 25 percent to $21,600 over the two-year le...

It’s not in the same proportion as a year ago, but there is sadness and anguish anew as Haiti today marks one year since a massive earthquake devastated the nation, killing more than 230,000 people, wrecking the capital and leaving (still) about 1 million people homeless....

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The state of Minnesota - specifically, the state Pollution Control Agency - was a day late and a dollar short, but remained lucky in the fact that no one was injured when a fermentation tank collapsed at the Al-Corn Clean Fuel Facility outside Claremont on Saturday. The accident spilled more than 40...

In signing a Defense Department funding bill on Friday, President Barack Obama grudgingly accepted a number of onerous provisions that threaten to encroach on his constitutional powers. One bars the use of Defense Department funds to bring detainees at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in...