Category: Crime

University of Minnesota stages epic ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’

November 25, 2024

Bright Sheng, a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and one of the leading composers of our time, told an audience at a pre-show dinner at the University of Minnesota’s Campus Club Saturday night that he was dubious when approached more than a decade ago about composing an opera on “Dream of the Red Chamber,”…
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How the Menendez brothers have spent 34 years in prison

November 25, 2024

For all attention focused on Erik and Lyle Menendez — the TikTok freedom campaign, the multiple documentaries and docudramas — one fact gets easily lost: While their lives and actions have been chronicled exhaustively up to their trials for violently killing their parents, much less is known about their 34 years behind bars. Now, with…
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‘Broadcast Wars’ chronicles heyday of Twin Cities TV journalism

November 25, 2024

Cathy Wurzer, the host of Minnesota Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” and co-host of public television’s Friday night staple “Almanac,” calls herself a news junkie and historian. She grew up in South Minneapolis in the 1970s, a time when local television news was king and its poofy-haired anchors were hailed as celebrities in the Upper Midwest. …
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How the Ojibwe shaped the state of Minnesota

November 25, 2024

Maybe I do this because the Ojibwe worldview could not conceive of influencing the land, or aki (earth), so any notion of who influences what must be turned upside down and inside out by asking: “In what ways has aki shaped us? In what ways has everything about this land and sky, this place called…
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Menendez brothers to make first court appearance in bid for freedom

November 25, 2024

Brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life terms without parole for the shotgun killings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, will make their first court appearance Monday in a bid for their release after more than 34 years behind bars. The brothers will join the hearing in Van Nuys via video…
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Northern Iowa organic grain farm demonstrates profitable model

November 25, 2024

WEST BEND, Iowa – People who think seriously about how to limit the toll industrialized American agriculture takes on communities, land, and water ought to visit the Fehr family’s organic Clear Creek Acres in northern Iowa. With just shy of 800 residents, West Bend is barely a blip on a prairie landscape, but it has…
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Candidate files lawsuit; alleges DFL winner does not live in district

November 25, 2024

Fox9 reports a lawsuit has been filed against DFL Representative-elect Curtis Johnson by his Republican challenger Paul Willstrom alleging Johnson’s primary residence is not within the district. “The lawsuit says that in March, Johnson signed an apartment lease at Rosedale Estates in Roseville, then registered in May to be in the state primary.” KAXE reports the Rock Ridge…
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‘Radical Endurance’ looks at the mental health impact of aging

November 25, 2024

For most of her life, Andrea Gilats wasn’t the kind of person who bared her soul to the world. In her 30-year career at the University of Minnesota, as founding director of the Split Rock Arts Program and founder and director of Learning Life, Gilats instead focused on providing opportunities for others to engage their…
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Metro Transit’s plan for D Line ‘bus bunching’ prevention, reliability

November 25, 2024

This winter, Metro Transit is promising to make D Line buses more predictable and less crowded. From Dec. 9 until March 21, Metro Transit will try what is called “headway-based scheduling” on the state’s busiest route serving Brooklyn Center, north and south Minneapolis, Richfield, Bloomington, and the Mall of America. “The goal of headway-based scheduling…
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Study finds land sinking at record pace in San Joaquin Valley

November 25, 2024

For decades, a costly problem has been worsening beneath California’s San Joaquin Valley: the land has been sinking, driven by the chronic overpumping of groundwater. As agricultural wells have drained water from aquifers, underground clay layers have compacted and the ground surface has been sinking as much as 1 foot per year in some areas.…
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