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The Fracking Fiasco

America's latest gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation

Rush Limbaugh has a crush on Chris Kluwe

SEE ALSO:-- Chris Kluwe to Emmett Burns: Gay marriage "won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster"-- Chris Kluwe says politician is "literally an asshole" for anti-gay marriage stance-- Chris Kluwe coins "turdsloth" while defending Crossfit on GawkerYesterday, Rush Limbaugh devoted a few mi ... More >>

Jon Flatland, newspaper columnist, outed as serial plagiarist, driven from industry

​Jon Flatland worked as a reporter, columnist, editor, and newspaper owner for 28 years, most recently as managing editor of the newspaper in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. He won numerous awards for his "work," including an award for best humor column last year from the North Dakota Newspaper Assoc ... More >>

Nye's Polonaise Room featured on Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives tonight

Guy Fieri features Nye's on the Food Network's hit show tonight​Nye's Polonaise Room is being featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives tonight.The famed local establishment can add tonight's appearance on the Food Network's hit show to a long list of press accolades, including appearances on Good M ... More >>

Meet the Minnesota Vikings All-Arrested team

​By Andy Mannix and Mike Mullen This week began with a bit of news that finally gives cause to celebrate the Minnesota Vikings: Since 2000, the Vikings are leading all other NFL teams in arrests. This was too good to be ignored, or judged on its face. So City Pages has gone deeper, investigating ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's biggest donors

Bachmann got lots of small contributions, and a handful of big ones.​As of June 30, Michele Bachmann's campaign warchest had about $3.7 million in it, $2 million of which she rolled over from her own political action committee. That still means Bachmann for President raised about $1.7 million in a ... More >>

New Minnesota HIV/AIDS cases drop 11 percent in 2010

Island NimbusHIV infections are down in Minnesota.​Last month the Minnesota Department of Health released some sobering numbers about the increase in reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases including chlamydia and syphilis. Today, there's better news on a similar front: The number of new ... More >>

Robert Redford's The Conspirator

Another dull history lesson

Beth Schapiro responds to story debunking her child prostitute study: "We stand fully behind our work"

Beth Schapiro​This week's cover story takes a look at research conducted by the Atlanta-based Schapiro Group, which claims to track incidents of juvenile prostitution. The problem is that the claim is based on a seriously flawed methodology--the numbers presented to news outlets as hard statistic ... More >>

Madieu Williams named Vikings Community Man of the Year

Image from Madieu Williams FoundationThe Vikings safety is a bit of good news in a pretty bad season​It hasn't exactly been a stellar season for the Vikings. First there was Brett Favre Penisgate. Then Randy Moss's bizarre self-interview. Then Coach Brad Childress got kicked to the can. And over t ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's fake 'Jim the Election Guy' is Beau Peregino

Fake "Jim" Beau Peregino​Michele Bachmann's "Jim the Election Guy," featured in TV ads accusing Tarryl Clark of wanting to tax Minnesotans to death, isn't really named Jim, and he isn't from the 6th congressional district. He isn't even from Minnesota.

Starbucks baristas union drive comes at key time

The effort to organize local latte-slingers could hurt the ailing chain

Steal This House

Minnesota was the first state to ban equity stripping. So why is it still happening?

George Pelecanos on 'The Wire' and D.C. pulp fiction

Ten Thousand Bullets

D.C. lifer George Pelecanos writes about murder, drug feuds, riots, dog-fighting—and also a little violence

The Wal-Mart Effect: a Q & A with author Charles Fishman

Toward a one newspaper town, part three

Arrested Development

How Minnesota philanthropist and developer Henry McKnight's utopian vision of suburbia became a blueprint for modern exurban nightmares

Gagging Dr. Dean

Why does Howard Dean's own party consider him the most dangerous character in Washington?

A Couch Potato's Guide to TV On DVD

We see the VHS tapes on our shelves and we want to smash them! Or, the brighter side of planned obsolescence in the field of home entertainment

Ode to Joy

Looking for an independent station on the FM dial where passionate DJs pick all their own songs? Guess what: It's been around for 82 years.

Comforts of Home

A pair of comfort-food cookbooks to make surviving cabin fever season a little easier

And Then There Was One

Rybak picks a reformer for the MPD

Spank the Donkey

Why We Should All Give Up on the Democrats: A Polemical Essay

Worse for Wear

Did GOP delegates destroy their nominee's chances?

Out of Gas

Critics say the Animal Humane Society's method of dispatching the unadoptable is cruel. It's certainly becoming unusual.

The Party Crasher

No one's giving much thought to Ralph Nader's running mate. But it has never been a good idea to underestimate Winona LaDuke.

Future Shock

Trans Am crosses the sentiments of a low-budget skin film with the sound of Rush processed through an Atari 2600

I Am Woman, Hear Me Whimper

Risa Cohen fortifies one of ballet's hapless heroines in Giselle 2000

Against the Grain

Alfalfa electricity? Northern States Power planted the idea, Minnesota farmers grew it, and a bitter tug-of-war chopped it down.

The Age of Work

Photographers Lewis W. Hine and David Parker frame the debate over child labor

St. Paul's Other Book Baron

BLACK & WHITE... and Red All Over

Star Tribune honchos pooh-pooh insinuations that they're at war with that other paper across the river. So why is the Strib stomping all around the PiPress's back yard?

Cold Fever

The annual case of contagious hype and acquisitions mania at the Sundance Film Festival

Starr Crossed

The independent counsel has put his foot in it again--and this time he may have destroyed his case.

Bubba Head

There is a certain poetic justice in seeing the president who made Family Values the central theme of his re-election brought low by his own reckless philandering.

An Engaging Place to Spend Eternity

Friends of Al

Alumni of the Gore campaign money machine include an Energy Department staffer who turned the department's multibillion-dollar toxic-waste cleanup fund into a political pork barrel.

Bipartisan Scam

Paul Wellstone, the Senate's most liberal member, has called the deal "a budget without a soul." Yet even Wellstone refuses to break with Clinton, for he fails to offer a systemic analysis of how it came to be.

Atun Alba:

Cocaine, Tuna, and Free Trade

Cracking Down

Rising repression means escalating tensions at Oak Park Heights, the state's only maximum-security prison.

The Fake Fight on Endangered Species

Collateral Damage

Candice Roark was a healthy 20-year-old when she was sent to the Persian Gulf in 1991. Now she has a pacemaker, fainting spells, and a lot of unanswered questions about what made her and thousands of other soldiers sick.