Alternative local news: MinnPost and TC Daily Planet

Our Twin Cities newspapers are in intensive care and not expected to live.

Dog bites man stuff.

So I'm looking for alternative sources for local professional investigative journalism. I'm following two at the moment via Google Reader:

• Twin Cities Daily Planet | Minneapolis - St. Paul
• MinnPost

I haven't figured out which is the more Rational of the two. Reason aside, they should both give up on world/nation coverage. That's the beat of NPR, the Guardian, NYT, BBC, WSJ and the blogosphere. At the very least they need to provide a feed that excludes national/world coverage - just local news, events, entertainment, etc.

Anyone know of other new media startups doing metro and state coverage?