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The Newsstand is the Daily’s newsroom blog. The purpose of this blog is to increase transparency of our coverage and give reporters an opportunity to blog news that doesn’t make it into print.
Fri, 1/28, 2:20pm (2 years ago)
On Thursday morning police discovered the body of a missing University of Minnesota student in a rail car just off campus. Minnesota Daily reporters and photographers went to the scene, located less than a mile away from the Daily offices, to report the story. Police were not present and the…
Thu, 1/27, 11:54am (2 years ago)
Good news freshmen: you're more stressed than ever, according to a story published in today's New York Times.
Data collected over 25 years from more than 200,000 freshmen shows a decline in emotional health in first year students at four-year colleges. “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” from the…
Thu, 1/27, 10:26am (2 years ago)
Here's your daily digest, from City Desk Editor Katherine Lymn:
In a double whammy of weather, the Northeast was buried by snow this morning in the second huge snowstorm of the season. The storm, “a giant white smudge over the Northeast on radar maps” dumped 19 inches of snow onto Central…
Wed, 1/26, 11:28am (2 years ago)
- Last night President Obama gave the State of the Union to a sold-out crowd at the U.S. Capitol. The phrase that seems to be capturing everyone's attention, and might stick around a while, is Obama's pledge for America to "win the future." (Come on, man, we already won the…
Tue, 1/25, 5:53pm (2 years ago)
If you happen to find yourself at Hennepin County Jail, the odds are that seven of the ten inmates around you were booked while on illegal drugs, according to an article in Tuesday's Star Tribune.
The federal study discussed in the article took a look at ten jail sites nationwide, including…
Tue, 1/25, 1:21pm (2 years ago)
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address at 8 p.m. this evening will center on a five-year freeze on discretionary government spending. The President proposed a similar plan in last year’s address. The called-for freeze, intended to help curtail the government’s $14 trillion debt, would not include national security,…
Mon, 1/24, 4:00pm (2 years ago)
A physicist from the University of Southern Queensland believes the Earth will experience multiple days of constant daylight due to a dying star — even as soon as 2012.
Is this a sign of the apocalypse?
No, says University of Minnesota physics professor Priscilla Cushman.
According to physicist Brad Carter from Australia, the…
Mon, 1/24, 9:00am (2 years ago)
Here is your Daily Digest for Monday, January 24, 2011.
The center photo on the New York Times website this morning asked questions about the odd weather Europe and the U.S. have experienced this winter (and last winter). I thought that, since Minnesota is supposed to feel a bit warmer this…
Sat, 1/22, 2:52pm (2 years ago)
A judge threw out the lawsuit filed against the Drug Enforcement Administration for its attempt to ban synthetic marijuana, according to a report by KSTP.
At the first hearing for the case on Friday, Jan. 21, U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz said the case was out of his jurisdiction when…
Thu, 1/20, 6:37pm (2 years ago)
Let it be known: Congress has not killed U.S. Sen. Al Franken’s sense of humor.
While the rest of you were sleeping until noon over break (disclosure — so was I), Franken and a handful of his staff toured medical facilities at the University of Minnesota on Friday, Jan. 7.
I know,…
Thu, 1/20, 3:25pm (2 years ago)
Alta Gracia, a sweatshop-free collegiate apparel line, will be sold in University of Minnesota bookstores starting Monday. Students with the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group are behind the effort to bring the new brand to campus.
“It’s encouraging to see that the U is at the forefront of this fight,” said…
Thu, 1/20, 12:32pm (2 years ago)
Goldy Gopher topped all other mascots this past weekend at the 2011 College Cheerleading and Dance Team Championship, taking home first place in the Division 1A mascot competition.
Competing against more than 200 other teams, the University also took home first place in the pom and jazz competitions and a third-place…
Thu, 1/20, 9:22am (2 years ago)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested more than 100 people affiliated with the mob in a “blanket assault” early today, the New York Times reported. The arrestees, from crime families in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, face charges of murder, extortion and gambling, to name a few. A number…
Wed, 1/19, 12:13pm (2 years ago)
- Today, President Obama - the most well-known world leader - welcomed China's Hu Jianto, the least well-known, in a White House ceremony that conjured up all the conflict and cooperation between the world's two great powers. According to the BBC, Obama made a quick, bold reference to human…
Tue, 1/18, 12:46pm (2 years ago)
Welcome back.
- Don't blink. Tunisia's had some sort of democratic -- or at least anti-dictatorial -- revolution, but the outcome seems to be changing by the hour. Earlier today, according to the New York Times, a handful of ministers in the new unity government resigned from their posts, after protesters…
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