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February 19, 2014 2:21 AM

Do you support a higher minimum wage?

ED @peggyflanagan on far right with MN mayors supporting #RaiseTheWage to $9.50 by 2015! http://t.co/KNP9dqoXLo pic.twitter.com/XogHSzPd30 — CDF MN (@cdfmn) February 7, 2014 “Raising the wage is a top priority for Democrats going into the 2014 Legislative session. Last year the Minnesota House passed a bill to raise the wage to $9.50. The Senate passed Read more →

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February 18, 2014 12:56 AM

Do questions over testing inform your view of marijuana legalization?

A couple of weeks ago, a reader here challenged my biases on pot and driving. Here's the story that came from that: http://t.co/GIFaQfzcZO — Maggie Koerth-Baker (@maggiekb1) February 17, 2014 “In a 2012 study published in the journal Psychopharmacology, only 30 percent of people under the influence of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, failed Read more →

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February 17, 2014 2:07 AM

Who is the most significant U.S. President?

A CSPAN poll places Abraham Lincoln at the top of the list, he’s followed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Today’s Question: Who is the most significant U.S. President?

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February 14, 2014 1:39 AM

Are technological fixes the only feasible option to address climate change?

“Some strategists still see a small window of opportunity to address climate change before the effects become damaging and costly. At least one economist, for example, says we can make a lot of progress if at least half the world agrees to put a price tag on the carbon we dump into the atmosphere. “But Read more →

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February 13, 2014 12:48 AM

Are attractive people given unfair advantages in your workplace?

Jonny Thakkar, a lecturer in philosophy and humanities at Princeton University, makes the case at Aeon magazine that ugly people are oppressed. We don’t choose the configuration of our facial features any more than we choose our skin colour, yet people discriminate based on looks all the time. As the psychologist Comila Shahani-Denning put it, Read more →

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February 12, 2014 1:06 AM

Who should be held accountable for MNsure’s website failures?

“Using MNsure should have been easy for Becky Fink,” write MPR News reporters Catharine Richert and Elizabeth Stawicki. As a local clinic director, she’d been trained by the new health insurance exchange on how to help people sign up online. But the site never worked for her even though she “tried, tried, many, many times, Read more →

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February 11, 2014 2:01 AM

What do you think about the delays in the health care law implementation?

In one of several concessions in a complex Treasury Department regulation of more than 200 pages, the Obama administration said companies with 50 to 99 employees will have an additional year to comply with the coverage requirement, until January 1, 2016. Angling to avoid political peril, the Obama administration Monday granted employers another delay in Read more →

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February 10, 2014 12:29 AM

Is the charter school experiment a failure?

The Dome of the Minnesota State Capitol. Minnesota lawmakers may consider changes to failing charter schools in the coming legislative session. Aidan Wakely-Mulroney / Flickr “Since the first charter school in the nation opened in St. Paul in 1992, charters in Minnesota have grown rapidly, especially in the Twin Cities metro area. Today there are Read more →

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February 6, 2014 1:04 AM

Where do you like to take in the Minnesota winter?

For the first time in nearly five years, the south shore of Lake Superior has frozen enough to allow people to access the ice caves of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Neil Howk, the assistant chief of interpretation at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Bayfield, Wis., told MPR News last month that thousands of Read more →

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February 5, 2014 12:48 AM

Is Glenn Greenwald a thief?

Ongoing attempts to criminalise journalism in the US: Senior US congressman Mike Rogers: Glenn Greenwald is 'a thief' http://t.co/euSrCymfoq — Jen Robinson (@suigenerisjen) February 5, 2014 “A senior US legislator has accused the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald of illegally selling National Security Agency documents provided to him by the whistleblower Edward Snowden,” writes Spencer Read more →

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