Here they are again: a sports team wanting a new facility. The twist this time is that it is not only a professional, private business demanding a stadium. This time it is also the Gophers football team. While...

This is my last column of the scholastic year. I'm not about to get all maudlin and bid you, the readers, a tearful goodbye; I just wish that I was blessed with more space to write today, as I've still...

Later this week, Google, perhaps the most beloved Internet search engine in the world, is likely to become a public business. Investors are jumping in their shoes for a chance to own a part of the Internet...

Today is Thursday. For the last four years, barring some unfortunate mishap like a gigantic photo of Goldy Gopher taking up valuable word space, my biweekly column has appeared in The Minnesota Daily on...

Last summer the federal government announced that there were more than 2.1 million people in prisons in the United States - nearly twice as many as were imprisoned just 10 years ago. In fact, while the...

Last week, The Minnesota Daily did a two-part series on Mount Graham. In Wednesday's article "Telescope sits high as cultural divide runs deep," the end of the article highlights problems at home in San...