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1997 Stories by City Pages Staff

• Short Takes

  published March 12, 1997

  Todd Komarnicki Famine Arcade FAMINE COMES AT a... More >>

• Trust Me, Inc.

  published March 5, 1997

  EVEN THE TWINS now admit that the misleading spin they put on their first proposal for a new stadium back in January was a major PR blunder, but... More >>

• Bad Company

  published February 26, 1997

  DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ALMOST never hear from the jurors who convict or acquit their clients, so public defender Sandra Babcock... More >>

• Is Blood Thicker Than Due Process?

  published February 17, 1997

  A BILL TO authorize HIV testing for alleged sex offenders is back in the Minnesota Legislature. State Rep. Dave Bishop (R-Rochester) has... More >>

• Personality Crisis

  published February 12, 1997

  IT'S CURTAINS FOR Dr. Diane Bay Humenansky, the St. Paul psychiatrist who helped her patients discover hundreds of separate personalities and... More >>

• All in the Family

  published February 12, 1997

  IT'S LIKE ONE of those holiday family fights: Everyone's offended, nobody will say exactly what happened, and the real issue is... More >>

• The Proposed Twins Park: Stadium or Ball Mall?

  published February 5, 1997

  HOW FITTING THAT the Minnesota Twins chose the Mall of America as the site for the public unveiling of blueprints for a proposed baseball... More >>

• PC or not PC: That is the Question at the MPD

  published January 29, 1997

  JERRY LARSON, THE vice-president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, is an angry man just now; he believes his union's monthly newspaper,... More >>

• Another Day, Another Lawsuit

  published January 22, 1997

  THE CITY OF Minneapolis appears on the verge of two more potentially costly civil rights lawsuits: one from within the ranks of... More >>

• TOWED!

  published January 15, 1997

  It had been some time since our last visit--we ordinarily like to have our car towed in spring during the street-sweeping... More >>

• No Vacancy

  published January 15, 1997

  THE MINNESOTA FAIR Housing Center, an independent nonprofit based in Minneapolis, has come up with a clean little study that... More >>

• BEGGAR THE QUESTION

  published January 8, 1997

  then to baseball, then, as they will, to a new, retractable-dome stadium. But where would the money come from? The Minnesota... More >>

• The Gubernatorial Gang

  published January 8, 1997

  GOV. ARNE CARLSON vetoed a proposed pilot program for a statewide gang task force two years ago. But as the prevailing... More >>

• LOCAL PSYCHICS FORETELL A 1997 UNLIKE ANY WE'VE EVER KNOWN

  published January 1, 1997

  THE OLD MAN AND THE C-NOTESThe psychics we polled believe that Twins owner Carl Pohlad will get his stadium--and then... More >>