Today’s topics: Development, Energy, Legislature, Natural Areas, Transportation, Waste, and Water.
Development
- Austin Daily Herald: Planning commission working to combat urban sprawl
Energy
- West Central Tribune: Wind power is on the grow, but will it be homegrown?
(MEP member group Windustry is quoted) - Minnesota Public Radio: Two energy companies square off over Iron Range power plant
- Bemidji Pioneer Editorial: Minnesota a model for energy policy
- Morris Sun Tribune: Kildegaard to research Denmark’s energy policies
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: One person’s trash is another’s ether
- Agri News Editorial: Anti-ethanol forces’ complaints lack merit
Legislature
- Pioneer Press Editorial: A glass of tea and a sip of compromise
- Bemidji Pioneer: Moe says August indicator month for agreement between lawmakers, governor on special session
Natural Areas
- Star Tribune: A night in the BWCA will cost visitors more next year
- ECM Newspapers Opinion: State parks or ballpark: What’s a greater legacy
Transportation
- Pioneer Press: Key bridge in light-rail plan can’t hold trains
- Pioneer Press Opinion: With light rail, let’s not repeat the mistakes that killed Rondo
- Star Tribune: As improvements to Midtown Greenway increase, so do bicyclists
- St. Cloud Times: Work to begin on Northstar facility
Waste
- Grand Forks Herald: Opponents: GF needs to go green
Water
- KARE: Drought making the Mighty Mississippi thirsty
- Brainerd Dispatch: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers resumes lakes drawdown study
- Detroit Lakes Tribune Opinion: Lake Learning – Right now, lakes are like layer cakes
- Mankato Free Press Opinion: Public has right to more pesticide-use information
- Winona Daily News: Researchers measure Mississippi plant life ahead of drawdown
- Quad Community Press: Circle Pines tackles water issues