Citizens United lawyer aims to dismantle campaign finance laws across U.S.

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Sunday bar closings may be on tap in North St. Paul | StarTribune.com

"A North St. Paul bar owner who simply wanted to be open a few more hours has set off a firestorm that may prevent all six of the city's bars from any Sunday alcohol sales at all.

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32 bills MN Republicans worked on instead of the budget

To borrow a phrase from Rachel Maddow: "It's NOT about the budget."

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Will Indonesia lose the next oil palm?

"Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: The bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity.

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Double suicide in western Minnesota puts bullying back in spotlight

Two 14-year old girls committed suicide last week in Marshall, Minn., and the evidence suggests they'd been bullied. Relatives of Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz told Meredith Viera of the TODAY Show that the girls may have been more than just friends.

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Foreclosures accounted for 43 percent of Twin Cities home sales in March

March was a bad month for home sales in the Twin Cities housing market, unless you're talking about foreclosures. Sales of homes in foreclosure spiked last month compared to the year before. And investors paying cash are driving a lot of those transactions.

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Russian Blogger Leads Crusade Against Corruption

Last month, students and professors jostled with photographers and cameramen crammed into a room of Moscow's venerable Institute of Higher Economics, a bastion of free thinking in a country where that kind of thing is generally discouraged.

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Ending dark era, Cuba frees last jailed journalist

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The art of law

Walk the hallowed halls of most law firms, and you'll probably find the scales of justice and somber portraits of judges on the walls.

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When journalists go bad

Yesterday, the Center for Public Integrity, run by a former MPR news director, made a big splash in journalism circles, when it announced it would start an investigative journalism Web site.

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Walker's Wisconsin: 2 Times Convicted DUI & No Degree Earns $81,500 April 4, 2011

Privatization in Wisconsin: 2 Times Convicted DUI & No Degree Earns 81,500 Job With Walker

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Wrongly sent to death row, man gets nothing

What does society owe someone who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death row for 14 years? Nothing, the Supreme Court ruled today in a case that split the court's conservative and liberal wing...

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Mankato recruits volunteer cops

In the face of cuts to local government aid and other funding, many cities are turning to volunteers to perform work that city employees used to do. In Mankato, the trend extends even to using unpaid licensed police officers.

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Duluth councilors oppose using police in fight over immigration

Minnesota's very own "papers please" law? This article relates to the Duluth City Council's reaction to MN House File 3830.

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Lawless Wisconsin GOPers Defy Court Order Against Anti-Union Law

Last week, a Wisconsin judge issued an order "restrain[ing] and enjoin[ing] the further implementation" of Gov. Scott Walker's (R) anti-worker law until she has time to fully consider a lawsuit claiming that the law was not validly enacted.

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Logging in state parks? Bill would require it in 2 [parks]

The proposal to harvest black walnut trees in the southeastern state parks for money ignites a firestorm. By DOUG SMITH, Star Tribune Last update: March 26, 2011 - 1:30 AM

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Push for private prisons draws fire

A bill that would open the door to for-profit firms faces questions about inmate treatment and safety. By KEVIN GILES, Star Tribune Last update: March 24, 2011 - 10:18 PM

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Minnesota lawsuit alleges deception in Groupon business model

St. Paul, Minn. — Since it launched in 2008, deal-a-day provider Groupon has attracted more than 70 million subscribers. But now, the service is the subject of multiple lawsuits, including at least one here in Minnesota, alleging the company's business model is deceptive...

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Romanian Internet fraud rings work out of South Florida

It was one of those deals people dream of finding on Internet auction sites — a 2005 Honda Accord for sale for $2,700 by an American serviceman about to be transferred overseas.

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Experts Deny Russia's 'Safe' Nuclear Reactor Claims

As engineers battled to contain radiation leaking from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, thousands of kilometers away in Moscow, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced his answer to deepening questions about the safety of nuclear power. It's "obvious," he said.

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Who paid the "blood money" to set Raymond Davis free?

US citizen and CIA contractor Raymond Davis was released from a Pakistani prison on Wednesday after $2.3 million was paid to the families of the two Pakistani men he shot and killed and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said repeatedly on Wednesday that the United States had not …

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In social media, why let the facts get in the way?

"This past week, a challenge over statements that Minneapolis blogger Johnny Northside made in 2009 led to a jury determination Friday that he must pay $60,000 in damages."

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