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  • News

    March 21, 2012

    Civil commitment leaves Hennepin County offenders languishing

    Mentally ill inmates wait months for evaluation, treatment

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Dayton will refuse salary during shutdown

    ​In a brief statement e-mailed to reporters over the weekend, Gov. Mark Dayton announced that he wouldn't collect his salary in the event state government shuts down on July 1 over the budget impasse. It's a symbolic move. Dayton is a multimillionaire, so missing some paychecks as governor is har ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Senate petitions court to join shutdown lawsuit, while courts sue to stay open

    ​GOP members of a Senate panel have passed a resolution authorizing the entire body to intervene in the lawsuit filed by Gov. Mark Dayton to keep essential services running in the case of a government shutdown. Today, the courts filed their own petition begging legislators and the governor to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Metro Transit will try to keep running during shutdown

    ​Transit riders can relax, at least for a little while. The Met Council says that Metro Transit buses, trains, light rail and Metro Mobility will all continue to operate regular services if or when state government is shut down by the budget impasse. But the council says transit services can' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Sen. David Hann calls Archbishop Nienstedt a socialist for caring about the poor

    ​Eden Prairie GOP Sen. David Hann is on a tear because Archbishop John Nienstedt is following Catholic social teaching and sticking up for poor people. In a vitriolic letter, he's accusing Nienstedt of endorsing "the socialist fiction that it is a moral necessity to take the property of the ' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Dayton wants 13,000 workers spared from shutdown

    ​The Legislature and Gov. Mark Dayton keep stumbling toward a possible government shutdown on July 1, and now the governor has submitted a list state services deemed essential--and who should keep working despite the shutdown. The list encompasses about 13,000 workers providing core services to 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Department of Human Services mails 572,000 shutdown warnings to clients

    ​In another reminder of how the looming Minnesota government shutdown is going to impact real people and not just political careers, the Department of Human Services mailed out something like 572,000 letters to its clients today, warning them that there may be an interruption in their benefits ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Intensive autism therapy gets court hearing

    Max Reid's treatment for autism was initially uncovered by his insurance.​We first told you about the fight over Intensive Early Intervention Behavioral therapy for kids with autism in our January feature. More recently, the issue got prominent treatment in a two-part series on the cover of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Susan Giefer's child care license revoked

    ​The ongoing saga of Jeremy Giefer has been chock-full of disturbing revelations.First came the charges that he repeatedly raped his young daughter over a period of years. Then the news that during this same period he successfully applied to have his previous record as a sex offender from Governor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Minnesota's deficit projection shrinks by $1.2B so Dayton backs off taxing the rich

    Dayton gives the rich a much-needed break.​If you're making more than $500,000 a year, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Mark Dayton says he's not going to make your already tough economic situation any worse by requiring you to pay a little more in taxes. That bit of relief comes thanks to n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Giefer back in jail, and DHS has some 'splainin' to do

    Jeremy Giefer, the sex offender pardoned by Governor Tim Pawlenty, is back in jail for violating his probation.​Jeremy Giefer spent the weekend back in jail, after being arrested on Friday for violating the terms of his release.He had been released last month on $250,000 bail after being cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Tim Pawlenty rests veto pen so he can fish

    Put the veto pen down and move toward the fishing pole​The governor, in case you missed the news, has gone fishing while the Legislature hammers out a last minute budget deal. Says he doesn't want to let down the good folks up around Lake Kabetogama by not showing up for a party they've been p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2010

    Jonathon Sharkey brainwashed teen girlfriend Paige Brewer, her mother says

    She made her comments after a succession of stories in City Pages resulted in hundreds of comments by outraged readers.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2005

    Sjodin fallout: civil commitments for sex offenders soar

    She made her comments after a succession of stories in City Pages resulted in hundreds of comments by outraged readers.

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2005

    Corporate Welfare

    She made her comments after a succession of stories in City Pages resulted in hundreds of comments by outraged readers.

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    A Cold Biloxi

    Will the Minnesota Legislature's slashing of childcare assistance for working families force more parents out of the workforce?

  • News

    May 26, 2004

    Uncovered

    Budget cuts threaten health care for HIV-infected Minnesotans

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    Lifetime Commitment

    Two lawyers challenge the governor's new policy on sex offenders

  • News

    July 2, 2003

    Austerity Forever

    Health care took the most visible hits at the Legislature this year, and the future only looks bleaker: Linda Berglin, the only DFLer who stood and fought Pawlenty's cuts.

  • News

    June 4, 2003

    They Won't Know Anyway

    A pair of lawsuits challenge Pawlenty budget cuts for services to the mentally retarded

  • News

    February 13, 2002

    Love Unlimited

    A social worker acts as your matchmaker. Your parents can veto your beloved. Society wants you to stay chaste. That's dating life for people with developmental disabilities.

  • News

    January 30, 2002

    The Devil and Ms. Jansen

    And other tales from our least likely lobbyists

  • Books

    December 26, 2001

    Father Knows Best

    Critics of Minnesota's child-support system object to quick fix

  • Books

    October 11, 2000

    Payback Time

    Minnesota's success in providing health care to children is about to cost the state millions in federal funds

  • Books

    May 12, 1999

    Fumble!

    Former Vikings great Carl Eller faces sexual-assault accusations--for the second time

  • News

    August 27, 1997

    Home Repo

    When a controversial nonprofit set out to open a foster program for violent teens in Tangletown, it failed to apprise neighbors of its plans. Minneapolis and Hennepin County officials quashed the project, adding that they want to put new group homes in "p

  • News

    April 16, 1997

    The End of Rita

    Margarita Tolchinskaya left behind a budding professional career and a ravaged homeland when she emigrated from the former Soviet Union to join her brother in St. Paul. Three years later, she wound up dead in the back room of the family laundry where she

  • News

    March 26, 1997

    Under Fire

    Margarita Tolchinskaya left behind a budding professional career and a ravaged homeland when she emigrated from the former Soviet Union to join her brother in St. Paul. Three years later, she wound up dead in the back room of the family laundry where she

  • News

    December 18, 1996

    Selling Blue Sky

    COWLES MEDIA DENIES ITS LOBBYISTS ARE PRESSING CITY HALL FOR A NEW BALLPARK.

  • News

    December 4, 1996

    The Hard Line

    COWLES MEDIA DENIES ITS LOBBYISTS ARE PRESSING CITY HALL FOR A NEW BALLPARK.

  • News

    November 15, 1995

    The Lord's Own Safety Net

    As social programs fall away, fundamentalist groups like Teen Challenge are rushing to take their place.

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