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I would like to recognize Minneapolis's Star Tribune for its significant contribution to the degradation of the civic life of the Twin Cities and to the decline of Minneapolis. To say the least, owner Glen Taylor has a high tolerance for mediocrity. After all, the guy owned the Minnesota Timberwolves for over 25 years. Yesterday, however the Star Tribune was recognized for excellence in one category of this year's Pulitzer

Last week we had the 'Shootout from George Floyd Square' broadcast live from Minneapolis. The video looks like a scene from a dark comedy. I think of it as the shootout at the not OK corral. It was in any event the perfect way to commemorate the anarchy and lawlessness Minneapolis has experienced in the year since George Floyd's death. Patrick Coolican was a reporter who wrote (with Stephen Montemayor)

Reply Minnesota is home to over 325,000 veterans, many of whom don't receive the help they need after returning home. (Beth Dalbey/Patch) March 30, 2021 On a September morning in 2015, Tony Miller, a former paratrooper who served multiple tours in Iraq, was getting ready for school. He walked down the street to the gas station, grabbed a coffee and headed back to his house. Then Miller noticed some cars he didn't recognize and heard someone call his name. Subscribe "And I looked to my right and there was a person — boom — right there with a gun to my head, and then a bunch of dudes jumped...

UpdatedSun, Mar 7, 2021 at 2:52 pm CT Reply(1) March 4, 2021 A bevy of DFL lawmakers stood in front of the rubble of a Lake Street furniture store on Thursday calling on Senate Republicans to support a $300 million proposal to rebuild Twin Cities businesses destroyed or damaged by last summer's civil unrest. Subscribe State Rep. Mohamud Noor, DFL-Minneapolis, said Democratic-Farmer-Labor legislators are renewing their push to provide state aid to Minneapolis and St. Paul businesses. "We made a promise and a commitment that we will never, ever walk away from supporting the small businesses im...