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St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, who has led the city for more than a decade, will not run for re-election next year. He announced his decision Thursday at a brewery just south of University Avenue, where he touted St. Paul’s growth and accomplishments during his nearly three terms in office. He stopped short of committing to future political plans. Coleman has said he is considering a run for governor, but did not confirm whether he will enter that race. If he does, he is expected to be one of many people vying for the state’s top political off...
HUDSON, WIS. – In the St. Croix County government building, just across the river from Minnesota, Thursday felt a bit like Election Day. Once again, county officials lugged in the heavy machines used to count ballots, set up a table for people to check in and prepared to brief a team of elections workers about the long day that lay ahead. Shortly after 9 a.m., after she’d ensured that everyone and everything was in place — the ballot counters, the political-party observers, the coffee pot and doughnuts — St. Croix County Clerk Cindy Campbel...
Once, on a visit to the French countryside, I visited the most beautiful, picturesque little country farm I’d ever seen. The farm produced an organic yogurt for the market and, ever the annoying economist, I asked my host how this boutique operation could compete with factory farms. “We couldn’t possibly do so,” he told me. The farm never came close to profitability and survived only because of deep subsidies. This revelation led to the inevitable compare-and-contrast discussion between the proud French farmer and the efficie...
CHICAGO – In a year of relentless violence, Chicago has hit another gruesome milestone, exceeding 700 homicides on Wednesday for the first time in nearly two decades, according to official Police Department records. It was not immediately clear which incident put the city at 701 homicides. At some point Wednesday, an April death was ruled a homicide. And then a fatal shooting took place about 8 p.m. in the South Shore neighborhood, said Frank Giancamilli, a police spokesman. The year got off to a violent start with 50 homicides in January a...
Sen. Warren Limmer’s new office in the politically toxic Minnesota Senate Building has a smashing view that includes a close-up of the State Capitol, St. Paul’s High Bridge, the downtown Minneapolis skyline and the northwestern horizon that stretches toward his own district in the Maple Grove area. “I’ve got it all. I’ll never get any work done,” Limmer joked Thursday, the day he and fellow GOP senators moved into the building they once bitterly opposed — and which many in his party brandished like a weapon against DFLers. “I’ll just si...
CANNON BALL, N.D. - So far, the hundreds of protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline have shrugged off the heavy snow, icy winds and frigid temperatures that have swirled around their large encampment on the North Dakota grasslands. But if they defy next week's government deadline to abandon the camp, demonstrators know the real deep freeze lies ahead, when the full weight of the Great Plains winter descends on their community of nylon tents and teepees. Life-threatening wind chills and towering snow drifts could mean the greatest...
CANNON BALL — Misty Jackson was building a wigwam at the main Oceti Sakowin protest camp on Thursday afternoon, despite orders from the governor and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clear the area. An Ojibwe woman from Wisconsin, Jackson recently quit her job at her reservation's casino to join the Dakota Access Pipeline protest full-time. She is one of thousands who have gathered to express concern the pipeline will contaminate the Missouri River and disturb sacred sites. The wigwam's structure was traditional: wooden poles from Wisconsin. B...
Delays to the Dakota Access Pipeline have added millions of dollars to Energy Transfer Partners' construction tab - but even if the line is approved, the freezing temperatures will bring their own challenges to finishing the drilling process. Frigid weather makes some aspects of pipeline construction more difficult, though not impossible, engineers and experts interviewed by Reuters said this week. While the majority of the construction on the 1,100-mile (1,770 km) line is complete, work on a one-mile segment in North Dakota was halted in...
“How many law enforcement agencies does it take to subdue a peaceful protest?” That’s the question that the ACLU posed Wednesday when it declared that officers from as many as 76 law enforcement agencies have assisted with crowd control at the ongoing protest at Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. Controversy over Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline – which would run through several states including an area near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation - has sparked a protest at the site that has raged since early this spri...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a statement this week saying that although temporary flight restrictions (TFR) are in effect over an area of south central North Dakota where protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline are occurring, news media organizations using drones to cover events there can get permission to fly. The TFR—FDC 6/1887—allows only aircraft supporting law enforcement activity under the direction of the North Dakota Tactical Operation Center and aircraft approved by air traffic control in coordination with the...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Ace Hardware chain is denying widely circulated reports that it was refusing to sell camping supplies to protesters demonstrating against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. Some supporters of the protest tweeted what was said to be a statement from Ace that said stores near the area were asked by law enforcement officials to "refrain from selling material that could be used at the camps." The largest encampment set up in opposition to the four-state, $3.8 billion pipeline has been called the largest g...
Approximately 100 people gathered in front of Pioneer Courthouse Square and marched to Wells Fargo Center Thursday to protest the bank and support Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. The protest is part of a nationwide movement Thursday to close accounts at Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Both banks are financing the companies building the pipeline, which is being built near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. Protesters met at noon and marched to the Wells Fargo Center at 1300 S.W. Fifth Avenue, where some closed their bank...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to hear a case related to the removal of a 1/64 Native American girl from her potential adoptive family in accordance with the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). The U.S. Supreme Court was asked to hear the case after California’s high court refused to do so. "One can’t say why the California Supreme Court refused to take the case, but the court has virtually never taken a case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act – even though there is a major division between the lower state courts regardi...
The explosion shook the ground beneath the Umatilla Indian Reservation and unleashed a massive fireball that roared up to 500 feet into the air. On Jan. 2, 1999, a natural gas pipeline ruptured about a mile south of Cayuse at the base of the Blue Mountains, triggering the blast that left behind a large crater and sent shrapnel flying hundreds of feet. “It sounded like a jet engine had crashed,” remembers Chuck Sams, now the communications director for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. http://www.opb...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Narragansett Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas is calling out several of the tribe’s members who have filed a federal lawsuit asking the court to uphold Thomas’ impeachment. Thomas, who has been the chief of the tribe for nearly two decades, sent out a statement calling on the “Imposter tribal council to end their political charade.” “It is quite disheartening to see this very small group of dissident members defying their own tribal court system in a misguided attempt to seize power from the lawfully constituted...
LANSING — Just two days after the bills were introduced, controversial and stricter voter identification laws moved quickly out of a House of Representatives committee Thursday afternoon. State Rep. Lisa Lyons, R-Alto, a term-limited state representative who won election Nov. 8 as the next Kent County Clerk, said she believes the integrity of elections needs to be strengthened, even though there have been only a handful of voter fraud cases brought in Michigan in the last several decades, according to the Secretary of State. Her bills would r...
There’s been another death of a B.C. teen who recently aged out of government care. B.C.’s Children and Youth representative Bernard Richard says the 19-year-old girl was found dead in a tent yesterday, in a wooded area of Surrey popular with homeless campers. “These are circumstances that are troubling for any British Columbian I’m sure. It’s hard not to be shocked and outraged by this kind of senseless death of a young person, and particularly when it involves children who have been in care.” http://www.am730.ca/syn/112/24...
BILLINGS - The member of the Crow Tribe, who was convicted at trial of sexually assaulting a young girl more than two decades ago, was sentenced Wednesday to federal prison. George Chad Deputee, 43, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Billings to nine years in prison. Deputee was convicted at his May trial on charges of aggravated sexual assault and abusive sexual contact of a child. http://www.ktvq.com/story/33832087/crow-tribe-member-sentenced-to-prison-for-decades-old-sexual-abuse...
