Minnesota's watchdog is watching our Legacy Amendment funds.

WASHINGTON - When historians look back at last week's European Union summit, their most likely reaction will be: "Huh?" Confronted with looming catastrophe in Greece, Italy and Spain, European leaders convened but accomplished nothing of relevance.

Tucked into the resignation letter Republican State Chairman Tony Sutton issued on Dec. 2 was an acknowledgement that a GOP-backed tax law change has contributed to the financial trouble that beset his party on his watch. Gov.

In the opening statement of his press conference Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, President Obama managed to assert no fewer than five times that the war in Iraq is ending.

WASHINGTON- Politicians love to celebrate, not chastise, big-time college athletics.

For two decades, .com, .org and some 20 other "generic top-level domain names" have served as calling cards for the vast majority of Web sites.

Iran has been showing signs of increasing nervousness about the possibility that its nuclear program will come under attack by Israel or the United States.

Last week the Minnesota Supreme Court sidestepped an important question, one that will, we fear, pop up again and again. The question concerns how the state should handle a government shutdown such as we experienced last July.

On the issue of unionizing licensed family child care providers, it's not so much whether a branch of state government exceeded its authority, but whether it's a government issue at all.

WASHINGTON - So after all the talk about fiscal balance and responsible choices, the pre-Christmas rush in Washington has come down to this: one more belly-up to the middle-class tax-cut bar.