Bob CollinsThere are worse ways to start a day than with Grand Forks Herald great Marilyn Hagerty’s restaurant reviews. Read more →
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Archives for June 2015
Perhaps it should be no surprise that improving graduation rates in the nation’s high schools are often the result of cooking the books. Whenever the standards for earning a high school degree are raised, politicians seem to backtrack on them because so many students would fail to graduate. Well, yes, that’s the thing with higher standards; they have to be met or they have to be lowered — one or the other. Read more →
Another gaping hole in the downtown St. Paul skyway system is emerging. Read more →
For most of us, a minute or two of our workday in the context of our lives doesn’t define us. Read more →
Wells Fargo isn’t giving in to evangelist Franklin Graham, who objects to this ad. Read more →
Andre Pearson, 61, of Omaha, has been a patient at Mayo Clinic in Rochester since March. He has serious heart problems. But he made it to his daughter’s California wedding. Read more →
The Dallas Morning News reports today a 19-year-old African-American woman says racist comments at her party at the community pool started things rolling. Read more →
A good screaming match is great for ratings. If intellectual curiosity gets slaughtered in the process, so be it. Read more →
Trip Advisor, the online travel site, is pretty much worthless now for people who fly out of airports that serve as Delta hubs, such as Minneapolis St. Paul.
The airline no longer exists on the site. Read more →
We’re declaring this Ingeborg Rapoport Day, in honor of the 102-year-old German woman who today will get a doctorate from Hamburg University Medical Center.
She wrote her thesis on diptheria 80 years ago, but the Nazis would not allow her to defend it. Read more →
The irony isn’t lost on us that the beauty of sunrises and sunsets often depends on filth — pollution and smoke, mostly.
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Last week, the newest addition to the green space on the Minnesota Capitol grounds was completed when work on the Minnesota Military Family Tribute was finished. Read more →
Thanks to Apple, a Major League Baseball player is going to get the ball he hit for his 100th Major League homerun. Read more →
Drone owner John Thompson isn’t getting much sympathy since he posted this video on Facebook showing firefighters trying to shoot down his drone. Read more →
‘The Baseball Rule is ripe for change,’ Martin Healy, head of the Massachusetts Bar Association, said. ‘The immunity the baseball rule has provided to baseball has to be tossed out.’
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