Bob CollinsThe Mankato Free Press this week provided an unusual glimpse of the sacrifice some Minnesota lawmakers have to make to be legislators. Rep. Jack Considine’s parents died within days of each other, just as the session started. Read more →
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Grantland provides today’s respite from cubicle gloom with this invigorating profile of a man who doesn’t let cancer get him down. Read more →
We can’t watch this horrible video without wondering, ‘What if?’. What if someone wasn’t in a perfect position to see a South Carolina cop execute a black man, who had been stopped for a broken tail light. Read more →
Tyrel Oates, the Charlotte Wells Fargo employee who wrote to CEO John Stumpf last year asking for a $10,000 raise for him and his colleagues, isn’t waiting around for a response, apparently. Read more →
The baseball box score, a longtime staple of the newspaper sports section, may be disappearing.
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When you’re a professional basketball player, you really don’t need anyone to give you cars and prizes; you can buy them with the pocket change you put on the dresser every night.
But it still takes a special person to pass the wealth along to someone else.
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A lot of people are ripping off the system, the Pioneer Press reports today, citing an audit showing Green Line riders in particular are dodging fares. Read more →
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill waded into dangerous territory for politicians overnight: college sports and the kids who don’t bother going to class. Read more →
On the Minnesota-South Dakota border, Trygve Trooien was something of a legend as the bachelor farmer. And a bit of a curiosity. Read more →
Stuart Schumacher finds something new every time he reads a recent obituary for a 4-year-old boy. The boy’s name was Evan, and Schumacher wrote the obituary in the hours after he lost his son. Read more →
It seems Americans are occasionally challenged by simple civics. But the notion that voting marks an engaged country seems questionable Read more →
It’s a good time to be a golfer, but for the fact there aren’t all that many golfers anymore.
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Fargo Forum editor Matt Von Pinnon is defending Friday’s front page, which featured the photos of North Dakota House members and their vote on a measure that would have extended discrimination protection to gays. Read more →
As usual, Steve Hartman nailed it again, telling the story of Carter and Jack Hanson, who literally fell in love with history. Read more →
Maura Crowell was given a five-year deal that starts at $140,000 for the 2015-16 season and jumps $7,500 each year before hitting $170,000 in 2019-2020. Both numbers are well below the $215,000 Miller was pulling in at the school that’s bleeding red ink.
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