11/01 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Read Britt Robson's exclusive interview with Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor [extended interview here], then head over to Balls to join the discussion.

Blood Brothers and Hacienda Brothers are just a few of the bands with "brothers" in their name performing tonight. Check out Chuck Terhark's City Planner at Culture To Go for a complete itinerary.

THESE DAYS

A dead woman won re-election to a school board in rural Alaska after her opponent lost a coin flip meant to break an electoral tie.

Increasing numbers of young women in France are turning to sex work to help pay the bills while they are in college, according to one of the country's leading students's unions.

The chairman of Florida's House rules committee urged Rep. Ralph Arza to resign over a racist message left on a colleague's voice mail and spare legislators a vote on whether to expel him.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

A former Minnesotan living in New York relays the adventures in owning a dog-walking business at New York Pooch Patrol.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

Take the extremely difficult and ultimately unrewarding Family Guy Quiz

The Dumbest Deaths in Recorded History

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"It's always easy to manipulate people's feelings, especially when you are talking about diseases that are so difficult."

— First Lady Laura Bush, admonishing actor Michael J. Fox for playing on people's emotions in recent commercials for Democratic candidates that support embryonic stem cell research