Bob Collins
Workers too loyal? Nursing home tasers and the young face of a civil war. Read more →
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Archives for August 2013
The Woodbury rain gardens are a success, sort of. Read more →
In some old vinyl, a bit of family history is discovered. Read more →
The ‘user fee’ to get an education, predicting suicide, Indian foster care controversy in South Dakota expands, a Shaina Briscoe update, and Ben Garvin’s magic beard. Read more →
Unless something changes, 2013 in the Twin Cities may be the summer when people and politicians gave up and ceded their neighborhoods to the gangs. Just last week, for example, a beating on the East Side of Saint Paul led its residents to beg for officials to do something — anything, really. Nobody seems to Read more →
Who shoots people “just for fun?” Plus: Should Wisconsin raise the speed limit? Guns at the Minnesota Capitol. Aid to Egypt. Big bucks from cigarette taxes. Read more →
The plug was pulled on Al Gore’s Current TV this afternoon and the Al Jazeera America era is underway. Qatar-based Al Jazeera paid $500 million to buy Current TV. “Some people ask, ‘Is it jihad journalism?’ It’s hard to have a dignified conversation about that,” Paul Beban, the Denver correspondent, tells the Denver Post. Read more →
There’s always someone to tell you you can’t do something. There are people who will listen to them. And people who won’t. Pete Gustin reads copy for a living, even though he’s legally blind. He just put a video together explaining how he does it.
The National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot of a small plane that crashed last summer near Brainerd was probably stoned while flying. The NTSB has posted the findings of its investigation into the crash on Upper Whitefish Lake near Crosslake. It said the medical examiner found drug paraphernalia in the shirt pocked of the Read more →
The e-cigarette debate, the empty nest, why farmers don’t quit, a free shot at college, and hate 101. Read more →
Mubarak could be back, Wisconsin spikes the idea of employers asking for Facebook passwords, Paul Bunyan humor falls flat on Bemidji, and a Pennsylvania county clerk turns DOMA on its head. Read more →
A klutzy Paul Bunyan is selling insurance. Should Bemidji be worked up? Read more →
This is street art — Best Buy style.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled the state has the right to strip the driver’s license of anyone who refuses officers’ orders to drive faster. Read more →
Visiting the future of America, Ernie and Weldon’s reunion, from tee to shining tee, the price of being a Good Samaritan, and the boss the rest of us want. Read more →