The resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich because he donated $1,000 six years ago to the effort to ban same-sex marriage in California, has renewed several debates: Should disclosure requirements be loosened? Is there a free-speech component to a legal campaign contribution? What kind of personal opinions disqualify a person from being CEO?
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If you’re on social media, there’s a pretty good chance you saw this picture, which was captured by Cleveland attorney Peter Pattakos outside Friday’s Twins-Indians game in Cleveland. Read more →
The former head of MNsure says she didn’t mislead anybody when the health care exchange went live last October. Yes, she did. Read more →
When cops and firefighters play hockey, hockey is secondary. Read more →
The Minnesota Timberwolves had a chance to make a statement Saturday when Dante Cunningham bailed himself out of jail and flew to Orlando to play for an undermanned team. The team is already out of the playoff picture and it might’ve elevated their status in town to let Cunningham watch from the bench, and maybe think about what it means to get yourself arrested for trying to strangle a woman in your home.
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The U.S. Senate is pondering a resolution offering an apology to Elsie Moren of Two Harbors and thousands of others like her, the Duluth News Tribune reports today. Moren’s ‘crime’? She married a non-citizen of the United States and, because of the law at the time, she lost her citizenship. She died a non-citizen in her own country.
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A ban on dreadlocks and restrictions on cornrows leads to a White House petition that claims the regulations are culturally insensitive. Read more →
As most fans of NPR’s Morning Edition know, Friday is the day you get to cry on your way to work.
StoryCorps, the segment in which people tell their life story in their own words, is always good for a punch to the feels; this morning’s outdid its usual compelling self. Read more →
You can tell a lot about the type of person who is behind a camera by the images of the people in front of the lens. Read more →
This is a good day to pay attention to Nickolas Butler, of Fall Creek, Wisconsin, near Eau Claire, who gets plenty of New York Times love today for his book, ‘Shotgun Lovesongs.’ Read more →
A lot of companies still run for cover when the issue of same-sex marriage comes up. Honey Maid got its share of grief last month when it showed same-sex couples in some of its ads.
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The statistics show that people with a mental illness are far more likely to be the victims, rather than the perpetrators, of violence. And yet, here were again this week shining the spotlight on what role mental illness might have played in a crime.
But does the latest Fort Hood shooting paint an unfair picture of the link. NPR’s Shots blog thinks so. Read more →
The kid gets the ball. That’s the unwritten code at the nation’s ballparks for foul balls or gifts from the players. Read more →
If life were fair, there’d be more Hollywood endings.
Remember the Grommesh family of Moorhead? They were the recipients of a new home and tons of goodwill in their community when their story — Garrett, 13, has spina bifida — made it to ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover in 2010. Read more →
It leaked out today that David Letterman is retiring.
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