Fondness for spring water overflows in Eden Prairie
None of those gathering water seemed perturbed by the city's sign warning that "even though the water is tested, we cannot assure its safety at all times."
Full Disclosure
Shiffer: State reports weed out medical pot growers' 'trade secrets'
LeafLine Labs and Minnesota Medical Solutions proved to the state that they had the financial wherewithal, technical prowess and security procedures to process and sell medical cannabis to patients. But if you want to know the details, you're out of luck.
Local
Jobs center helps East African residents of Minneapolis find employment
The center surpassed its goal for job placements.
Local
Minnesota open records law needs a name equal to its purpose
The Minnesota Government Data Practices Act needs a new title. Desperately.
Local
UFOs and aliens thrive in the vacuum created by secrecy
Lack of government transparency plays a big role in propagating wild theories of alien landings and coverups.
Local
Breeders and animal dealers granted privacy, even after inspectors find problems
Dan Moulton has raised chinchillas, those cute little Andean furballs, in southern Minnesota for more than 50 years. Moulton is licensed by the U.S.…
Local
Star Tribune offers new ways to send us news tips
Your eyes and ears are especially important to us in an era of growing government secrecy.
Local
Sexual harassment shielded by secrecy at Minnesota Capitol
The sexual harassment scandal has brought new attention to the different disclosure practices that apply to Minnesota institutions.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis' posting of 'deleted' EPA pages is a bit overheated
One problem: The web pages in question are still on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website. You can find them linked from the EPA home page.
Local
Mille Lacs County sues feds to get FOIA response
And since November 2016, county officials have been waiting.
Local
Opening the JFK files would have been a triumph of transparency. If only.
Instead it confirmed to the cynics and conspiracy theorists that the government can never come clean.
Local
Trump White House confounds, confuses transparency advocates
Data purges and secrecy confounding transparency advocates.
Local
University of Minnesota's hunt for leaker was a $74K red herring
In May, the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota learned that another high-ranking athletic department employee had been placed on leave for misconduct. This was supposed to stay secret.
Local
Two men sentenced for violating Minnesota's revenge-porn law
Michael Weigel and William Eldridge both had the same idea on how to inflict emotional pain on women in their lives. They created fake Facebook…
Local
Once-secret CIA records reveal gift of ancient stone jar
Earlier this year, a researcher at Concordia University in St. Paul was combing through declassified CIA records and discovered an intriguing stone legacy of the…
Local
A trip to Duluth proves City Hall isn't sinking under data requests
So back in July, when the Duluth city staff presented the idea of charging $35 an hour for any data request that takes more than 15 minutes, I decided to ask: How big a burden are these?
Local
The fuzzy line between dissent and disruption, even for courts
Anyone doubting the power of protest should study the shutdown of the Minneapolis Board of Education meeting on Jan. 12. The board was poised to…
Local
Hurricane Irma: When will airports reopen? What we know about damage
Hurricane Irma was downgraded to a tropical storm Monday as it made its way inland. Statewide, the storm knocked out power to more than 6.2…
Minneapolis
Former police chief's hush clause stymies a needed public debate
There's something so Minnesotan about the idea of nondisparagement.
East Metro
Search for father's birth parents runs into bureaucratic tangle
What's the public interest in hiding a court record created 108 years ago?
West Metro
Hotel room bust of high-end prostitute leads to $20,000 windfall for Minn. police
Adrienne Chapa was arrested and spent a few days in jail before she went home to Las Vegas. Her bag of $24,425 in cash was here to stay.
St. Paul
Archive specialist rescues Minnesota history, page by yellowed page
Charlie Rodgers’ business card carries his bone-dry title: “Government records specialist.” The reality is more like this: Exploring dank basements and forgotten storage areas; opening…
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