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I was so desperate for the return of street food in St. Paul that I walked to Rice Park in a chilly drizzle last week to try a new food truck.

At least once or twice a day the heavy wooden door at Eureka Printing & Stationery squeaks open and someone strolls inside to shoot the breeze with owner Paul Burton or City Councilman Jim Meares.

Today's a big day for Rand Paul: he's in Iowa, where he will address a sold-out crowd at the Iowa Republican Party's annual fundraising dinner.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters – and their highs and lows – resonate nearly a century after the St.

The implicit calculation behind the buzz for a 2016 Rand Paul presidential bid is that he begins with his father's intense base of support and fundraising network, and can crucially add to that via personal characteristics which lift him over an intangible but very real threshold of credibility.

Last month, a dispute over giving $3 million to education technology pilot programs helped delay the 2013 Legislature.

Twin Falls, Idaho The winners of the 3rd Annual Art & Soul of Magic Valley, sponsored by Magic Valley Arts Council, were announced this weekend.

On the one hand, I want to dismiss this as mischievous shinola-stirring by lefty Bill Scher and righty Matt Lewis .

The day will come when reviews of the Minnesota Orchestra can dispense with the phrase "locked-out" but that day is not yet here.

Senator Rand Paul during an interview Friday on the Glenn Beck Show took a moment to respond to critics who have accused him of learning to "love the drone." "Most of us acknowledge that police have the right to shoot back and to use deadly force against criminals who are using deadly force against them," the senator said.

I just realized, via Julie Ingersoll of Religion Dispatches , that Howard Phillips, one of the true founders of the Christian Right and one of that movement's most aggressive theocrats, died over the weekend at 72 after suffering from a debilitating illness for the last couple of years.