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Business: See Minnesota's top-earning companies and CEOs Community:Twin Cities demographic information. Education: Did your school make the grade? See 2008 test scores. Entertainment: Find music, theater, art, festivals and other diversions. Government: Learn how much public employees get paid. |
Politics: See campaign contributions and election filings. Public safety: Homicide map, crime statistics and more. Recreation + lifestyle: Find local garden centers, farmers markets and more. Real estate: Research home prices in the Twin Cities. Transportation: A bridge watch list and traffic information. |
Complete U.S. Senate recount results
Check the latest statewide and county-by-county results in the recount between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman, including ballots challenged by the campaigns.
Ranking the state's political donors
From California to New York, deep-pocket donors are writing checks to Minnesota candidates. And some Minnesotans are giving big bucks to the presidential candidates. We rank the top 200 biggest givers -- a who's who of the famous (and in a few cases infamous) names behind the state's campaigns.
Public employee salaries
Browse salary data for most of Minnesota's largest government employers, including averages, overtime and total salary paid.
Minnesota's homicides: an interactive map
Homicides affect families and communities from the central cities to the far corners of the state. Our map marks the state's killings, remembering the victims and tracking suspects through the justice system.
Jail bookings in St. Paul and Ramsey County
Find who's been arrested and booked into the Ramsey County jail.
Rating our schools: 2008 math and reading test scores
Browse math and reading results for Minnesota public, charter and private schools. Drill down to results by grade and demographic group. These results will be used to determine which schools failed to meet their annual performance goal under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Find out how much that house sold for
Research home prices in neighborhoods across the Twin Cities, or on your street. Our database of real estate transactions includes 10 years of sale prices.
BCS darling Boise State on outside looking in
The Broncos might be unbeaten and in the top 12 in the BCS standings ... and it might not be enough for them.
Minnesota bridges rated
Our interactive map shows more than 300 Minnesota bridges that receive special scrutiny because of structural deficiencies, outdated design features that make them functionally obsolete or use of gusset plate connectors similar to those on the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed.
Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs
Is your boss among the top-paid executives at public companies in Minnesota? Median total compensation for the 100 CEOs rose 11 percent in 2007, according to the Star Tribune's analysis. That marks the fourth straight year that median total pay exceeded the $1 million mark.
Hot or not: Population ups and downs in the Twin Cities
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 estimates show population gains in the central cities and some inner-ring suburbs at the same time that growth in some other suburban communities is slowing.
Twin Cities entertainment calendar
You'll never be bored with our entertainment finder. Find music, theater, art, festivals and other diversions. Plus movie showtimes and TV listings.
Foreign quick money schemes are rip-offs, scam-busters warn MN
Minnesotans lose $30 million every year in bogus foreign lotteries and other international scams, a new anti-fraud partnership announced last week. According to the story by my colleague Greg Patterson, Minnesotans should start hearing and seeing all kinds of warnings about get-rich-quick schemes that are really ways of separating them from their dwindling assets.