On the environment, green legislators are often torn between what is ideal and what is feasible. Such was the case at the Legislature this week as lawmakers consider how best to store nuclear waste at...

Hootie Johnson must be straight from central casting. The rich, old, Southern white man - a caricature of Boss Hogg meets Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel - said his elite private golf club, which hosts the...

AJohn Tribbett s I watched the Marines help topple Saddam Hussein's bronze image, I thought to myself, "Semper fie, do or die, by God, our boys have taken Iraq." As the scenes of jubilation unfolded on...

TAdam Duininck he most frightening display of rhetorical distortion I have seen during this war is the idea that those who protest the decisions of our leaders are not supporting the men and women of our...

Gophers forward Rick Rickert is going pro. Like many young basketball stars, Rickert has decided to forgo remaining years of college eligibility and enter the NBA draft to chase his dream. "Ever since...

If you thought evil companies marketing tobacco, guns and fast food have been sued in order to protect the public interest, check the latest news on the 1998 tobacco settlement. As you might remember,...

ASana Asari s the incessant coverage of the war in Iraq continues on the major networks, I would, for the moment, like to digress from this and make mention of another equally important topic. As operatives...

How's about we begin with the punch line? A good man is hard to find. Cutting to the fairy tale ending: I found one. And now, the story: I have always wanted to write the great American love column. I...

As Baghdad fell, images of a U.S. victory went up. U.S. Marines toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein just moments after draping his head with the Stars and Stripes. With fingers in the dust, troops wrote...

Iraq. Bush. Hussein. It's rather obvious where the country's attention has been focused over the past few months. But while the hostilities in Iraq have escalated, ensnaring the attention of the world's...