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No way to pick a mayor; Lake Street now in Brooklyn; Leaving Afghanistan

No way to pick a mayor

Lake Street, now available in Brooklyn

Booze pies?

Homecoming

TQ – Turning point

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19 hours ago

Mining divides Ely, again

Every year Randy Stender and his family spend Memorial Day weekend at Birch Lake Campground, a tradition that ties him to the wild, unspoiled lands here on the edge of the Iron Range where he grew up. There was a time, he says, when he and his wife would have moved back — if there had been a job like the one his father once had at Reserve Mining.

So when he heard that Birch Lake’s shoreline could become the site of one of the largest copper mines in the country, he immediately grasped the conflict gripping this charming tourist town and spreading across Minnesota.

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Star Tribune

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At least 40 arrested during Winona frac sand protest · Source

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Insurance marketplace hits a snag; Sequester hits Head Start; Beer joke apology

Unequal rates of compensation could hurt MNsure rollout

Signs of sequester grow
In Hennepin County, the Head Start program will be forced to cut as many as 14 teachers and eliminate 90 classroom slots.

Dear Jake, I’m Sorry – Kurt

When the Minnesota House was debating whether to raise the state alcohol tax in April, Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, criticized claims that the tax increase would amount to only seven cents a beer.

“That’s like promising a case of Summit to the party and showing up with that bathwater called Leinenkugel’s,” Zellers said, referring to the Summit brewery in St. Paul. “It’s not a fair deal at all. Good Minnesota beer for Wisconsin bathwater, no sir.”

Drought to flood

Time for immigration reform?

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2 days ago

Need a Surly beer closer to the source? Taproom on tap in Brooklyn Center

Surly Brewing Co. owner Omar Ansari serves beer to patrons before a tour at Surly Brewing Co. in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Ansari started the business when he sold his first keg in 2006. Surly has grown tenfold since then, and Ansari helped pass the "Surly bill," which allows his business to sell glasses of beer on site and paves the way for expansion into a destination brewery and restaurant. (MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson)

Surly Brewing Co. owner Omar Ansari serves beer to patrons before a tour at Surly Brewing Co. in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Ansari will be add pint glasses and a cash register to the tasting room as part of modest upgrades to turn the space into a taproom. (MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson)

Before Surly Brewing opens its $20 million “destination brewery” in the Prospect Park area of Minneapolis it will open a taproom in the brewery’s current Brooklyn Center location.

“We’re making very long-term decisions for the new brewery, and at first we thought it wouldn’t make much sense to put any effort into this place, but it’s taking just a little bit longer than we thought to set up the new operation,” taproom manager Linda Haug told the Star Tribune.

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Flat Earth brings beer brewing back to old Hamms site · Source

Beer cities: Mpls/St Paul comes in 6th nationally · Source

Video: How to grow hops in Minnesota · Source

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The Nazi in NE Mpls; Bugs, bugs, bugs; Solar boosters: check

The Nazi in NE Mpls

Bugs, bugs, bugs

Solar boosters: check

Thrifty

Today’s Question

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