There is a new kind of bigotry in town. It is flaunted by our city leaders and directed at the majority of people reading these words. St. Paul City Council member Jay Benanav, 4th Ward, is one of the...

President George W. Bush and Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., all made visits to Iraq last week. The trips were quick, in part because of safety risks, including a difficult "corkscrew"...

You bastards get out of my house!" "I'm going to kill you." I'd hear him through the floorboards of my St. Paul apartment. We moved in Sept. 1. For me and my two roommates, it was our first time living...

Hennepin County commissioners will make final decisions Dec. 16 on the 2004 county budget. Like the state, Hennepin County faces difficult choices about how to maintain public services with shrinking funds....

With World Trade Organization member states poised to enact retaliatory tariffs, President George W. Bush has little time left to decide whether to continue his tariffs on foreign-produced steel. Although...

I"Black people yellin' racism, white people yellin' reverse racism, Chinese people yellin' sideways racism ... but ain't nobody got it worse than the American Indian... ." - Chris Rock t seems we are bred...

When one thinks of Somalia, standard pictures come to mind. An utter black hole where a government, albeit a predatory one, used to be. Chaos, clan warfare and the massacre of international peacekeepers....

The percentage of commuting undergraduates has declined, according to the Student Interest Survey, from 55.2 percent in 1986 to 41.9 percent in 2001. We hope both the University and community will accept...

In reply to Jesse Lickel's Nov. 24 letter to the editor, I, Marty Andrade, wish to offer myself some defense. First, I wish to point out to Lickel that I am in no way someone who would trivialize mental...

Of all the developments in Washington with George W. Bush as president, nothing has been as impressive as the Medicare reform that passed Congress yesterday. The bill confronts the three most pressing...