Bob CollinsA little girl rescued a baby woodpecker from being injured by her cat in Virginia. She almost paid a hefty price.
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Should left turns be banned?
There are two big items on my wish list for Minnesota: (a) A Dunkin’ Doughnuts shop and (b) a good tomato fight.
2014, when light-rail makes its debut in Saint Paul, is still a long way away, but at least there was a whiff of the end of the disruption its construction has caused in the city’s Lowertown neighborhood
David Cazares
By Bill Wareham, MPR News When the topic of this Saturday’s U2 concert came up in our morning editorial meeting, it exposed a cultural divide far deeper than one might expect among this rather homogeneous group of 40- and 50-somethings. On one side of the gulf there was open derision of the Irish rockers as Read more →
The man who mapped Kazakhstan
Jon Gordon
A little help staying on your side of the street
dgaraets
Weary of the state government shutdown? If not, read Shutdown 11 — MPR News is all over it. But you could use a break, right? We offer the following distractions: 1) How ships are launched 2) Macaque self-portrait That’s one compelling photo — taken by the monkey who grabbed a camera from a nature photographer. Read more →
Ever pull into a city in a suburb and notice a shopping center with a Target at one end, a Home Depot at the other, a bunch of chain stores in the middle and forget what city you’re in? It could be Anywhere USA. That, my friends, is what people are trying to do with the English language.
While many Americans might sleepwalk their way through the occasional playing of the National Anthem, there’s no mistaking the hearty singing of the anthem at a U.S. naturalization ceremony.
The Ox Lake parade
There’s a guy in the middle of this “flash mob” in a grocery store on Cape Cod this weekend who keeps shopping, even as a marching band breaks out around him.