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Rolling toward ‘Cuyuna 2.0’ A now-iconic scene of red dirt, water and sky along the Miner's Mountain overlook, the highest point in the recreation area. Video by Aaron Lavinsky. Photo by Aaron Lavinsky By Bob Timmons • Star Tribune • July 30, 2021 IN THE CROSBY-IRONTON AREA – The helmets were a bit tippy for some, not entirely snug. The bike jerseys had some extra room, for now. And getting comfortable on their bikes? With practice, that would come, too, for the youngest of a local crop of "Little Bellas," mountain bikers in the making. Under a still-hard sun on a weeknight in mid-...

Conservation groups and legislators alike mourn John Helland, driver of environment policy John Helland, who died June 27 at age 76, and others like him in government, are the dutiful — and smart — ones who write the laws and policies that legislators oftentimes can only imagine. Written By: Dennis Anderson / Star Tribune | 5:00 pm, Jul. 24, 2021 × A view of the Minnesota State Capitol on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Glen Stubbe / Minneapolis Star Tribune / TNS (Tribune News Service) -- It's unclear whether John Helland knew who Max Weber was or that Weber, a German soci...

Bev Scalze, former state legislator with people-oriented approach to politics, dies at 77 July 19, 2021 — 6:26pm Text size Copy shortlink: A wildlife artist, she won the 1991 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources trout stamp contest. She launched a political life spanning nearly 40 years — first as a Little Canada City Council member and then a state lawmaker — after an effort to stop a road project that threatened wetlands in Little Canada. Scalze, who as a DFL state legislator co-authored the Legacy Amendment to help pres...

It's unclear whether John Helland knew who Max Weber was or that Weber, a German sociologist who died in 1920, developed the first modern theory of bureaucracies. Weber argued that bureaucracies are the most efficient way to organize human activity, and Helland, who spent nearly four decades laboring in Minnesota's Capitol, likely would concede if asked that his career had been that of a bureaucrat, and proudly so. Helland, who died June 27 at age 76, and others like him in government, are the dutiful — and smart — ones who write the laws and policies that legislators oftentimes can only ...