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Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Mill City Museum kicks off farmers market exhibit tonight

    With its idyllic location next to one of the best farmers markets in the Twin Cities, perhaps no museum is better suited to hosting an exhibit on "the unique confluence of community aspiration, cultural exchange, and economic activity popularly known as farmers markets" than the Mill City Museum. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Gastro Non Grata and CSA selections this Week in Food

    We're inching toward farmer's market season, and the proof is in this week's events: from a CSA fair at Seward Co-op to the opening of Mill City Museum's new "Growing Strong: How Farmers Markets Nourish People, Communities and the Planet" exhibit, the veggies are in the air this Week in Food. 4/17 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    The most gay-friendly Twin Cities employers

    The Human Rights Campaign assessed companies' GLBT-friendliness​The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has released a study measuring hundreds of companies' friendliness to gay employees. If their survey is any indication, Minnesota companies tend to do well by their GLBT employees. Thirteen Mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Minnesotans support taxing smokers to close budget gap

    More than half the survey respondents would support increased cigarette prices.​If the stress from thinking about Minnesota's budget deficit makes you think about lighting up a smoke, think again. Nearly 60 percent of Minnesotans would support increasing cigarette state taxes on tobacco to help so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    KDWB's private meeting to atone for Hmong parody song gets boycotted

    KDWB apologizes on their own terms, got it?​As a part of their ongoing apology for the "Hmong parody" debacle, KDWB managers are holding a meeting with members of the Hmong community at their offices in St. Louis Park this morning for a "dialog." However, some of the invitees are refusing to go. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Dave Ryan apologizes for KDWB Hmong parody song AGAIN

    KDWB apologies: now with extra sincerity.​KDWB's Dave Ryan has issued yet another apology for the so-called "Hmong parody song" that has incensed listeners and driven away important advertisers. "Some may feel that our previous apologies about this have been inadequate or insincere," said Ryan in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    KDWB Hmong parody song brings protesters to station's front door

    Saying sorry, again.​KDWB has been forced to apologize again for that tasteless Hmong parody song aired by the "Dave Ryan in the Morning Show" crew a few weeks ago. The latest mea culpa came as a crowd of protesters showed up outside the station's front doors on Friday morning carrying signs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    KDWB loses Blue Cross ads over Hmong parody

    Not as funny as they think they are.​KDWB has lost another advertiser over that tasteless "Dave Ryan in the Morning" show parody that recently portrayed Hmong Americans in a far less than flattering light Blue Cross Minnesota found the song, sung to the tune of Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Nice Ride 2011 rolls out with mechanical and billing snafu

    Nice Ride MNThe snafu is over, Nice Ride reports.​Season No. 2 for our nifty bike share program Nice Ride rolled out in a less than spectacular fashion over the weekend: Some customers wanted to return their bikes, but they couldn't. We hear that riders were treated to nasty grinding noises ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Nice Ride rolling out North Minneapolis bike rental stations first

    The squeaky wheel gets the grease.​The snow is melting, and potholes are multiplying faster than bunnies, so it's time for Nice Ride's lime green cruiser bikes to hit the streets again. And this spring, stations are being opened in North Minneapolis for the first time, after activists in neigh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    "Scott" will call glass box at Mall of America home for a month

    Facebook"Scott" sets a good example.​We don't know who "Scott" is, but we're going to learn a lot about him in the next 30 days because he's going to live in a glass box at the Mall of America. We do know he's 45 years old, and lives somewhere in the Twin Cities. But his name is being kept se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Nice Ride Minnesota secures major funding for expansion

    More lime green bikes coming to a neighborhood near you.​Nice Ride Minnesota, the bike share program that launched last June, is about to get a lot bigger. Thanks to a just-announced major infusion of cash, the program is ready to start implementing its Phase 2 expansion.

  • News

    January 26, 2011

    Intensive Early Intervention Behavioral Therapy could cure autism

    But HealthPartners and other insurance companies won't pay for it

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Blue Cross drops $1.5 million money bomb on Nice Ride

    Rybak and the Do Groove guy.​Imagine if you will the mayor of Minneapolis, R.T. Rybak, riding a lime green bicycle around City Hall, followed on same by Blue Cross CEO Pat Geraghty and the Do Groove TV commercial guy -- the dude in the sweater vest bustin' out his hip hop moves in a doctor's w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    10/14 Morning Must Reads

    Rybak and the Do Groove guy.​Imagine if you will the mayor of Minneapolis, R.T. Rybak, riding a lime green bicycle around City Hall, followed on same by Blue Cross CEO Pat Geraghty and the Do Groove TV commercial guy -- the dude in the sweater vest bustin' out his hip hop moves in a doctor's w ... More >>

  • News

    July 23, 2008

    Tim Pawlenty: Governor No

    Tim Pawlenty racked up more vetoes this year than any governor in Minnesota's history. Is this the man we want to be vice president?

  • Feature

    May 28, 2008

    Chris Georgacas

    The Whiz Kid

  • Feature

    May 28, 2008

    The 10 most powerful Minnesota Republicans

    These GOPfathers are the power brokers you've never heard of

  • Movies

    June 27, 2007

    Michael Moore's Preexisting Condition

    The Oscar-winning filmmaker weighs in on America's health care system

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2007

    Michael Moore's Pre-Existing Condition

    The Oscar-winning filmmaker weighs in on America's health care system

  • News

    January 11, 2006

    United He Stands

    In the past seven years the Minnesota attorney general's office has earned a rep as one of the country's toughest HMO watchdogs. So does it matter that Matt Entenza, the DFL's heir apparent to the job, is married to one of the most powerful executives in

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2005

    "Value-Based" Healthcare

    In the past seven years the Minnesota attorney general's office has earned a rep as one of the country's toughest HMO watchdogs. So does it matter that Matt Entenza, the DFL's heir apparent to the job, is married to one of the most powerful executives in

  • News

    May 5, 2004

    Voices and Silence

    It was no secret that Jason Molacek heard voices telling him to murder. Cops, counselors, his parents--they all knew. So why didn't anyone stop him before he shot his mom to death?

  • News

    February 5, 2003

    We Smoked 'Em

    Court of appeals agrees: City Pages can examine tobacco settlement records

  • News

    January 29, 2003

    We Shoot, We Score

    Court of appeals agrees: City Pages can examine tobacco settlement records

  • News

    November 8, 2000

    Smoke and Mirrors

    Two years after picking billions of dollars out of Big Tobacco's pocket, state officials are still having trouble polishing their next trick: Figuring out how to spend it

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    See You In Court

    Five years ago Mike Hatch was just another failed politician. Then a dying woman walked into his office, and a crusade was born.

  • Books

    February 3, 1999

    Nicotine Fit

    He's been thrown out of court on his ear, but Roger Conant is still railing about the legal fees from the tobacco settlement

  • Books

    September 23, 1998

    Sue 'Em if You Got 'Em

    Hennepin County leads the next round of tobacco litigation

  • Feature

    August 25, 1998

    Click and Learn

    A new model for AIDS treatment activism

  • News

    May 6, 1998

    Trial by Paper

    Millions of tobacco-industry documents find a home in the crammed back rooms of the Depot

  • News

    February 4, 1998

    Talking Blues

    Sure, they're in court fighting the tobacco companies. But just try to get them to pay for a nicotine patch.

  • Books

    June 25, 1997

    Urban Violins

    Sure, they're in court fighting the tobacco companies. But just try to get them to pay for a nicotine patch.

  • News

    July 17, 1996

    Bad Medicine

    Sure, they're in court fighting the tobacco companies. But just try to get them to pay for a nicotine patch.

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