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The economic benefits of professional sports teams are far from clear. The NHL lockout, for example, may not have the impact on St. Paul’s economy that city officials had predicted. Today’s Question: What benefits should a sports team bring to a city?
Officials in northeastern Minnesota are mourning a longtime Duluth pathologist and deputy St. Louis County medical examiner who died in a plane crash in Wyoming.
A small aircraft that crashed in Wyoming on Friday, killing its only occupant, was registered to former St. Louis County Medical Examiner Donald Kundel.
The Week in Commentary
A summary of the week's commentaries and some of the responses they inspired.
Minnesota’s broadband task force is recommending a variety of actions for the Legislature to expand high-speed Internet access, from paying for computers in libraries to tax breaks for Internet providers.