The prevailing jet stream over the Midwest from the south and west has brought the unusual warmth in the last few weeks. Despite today’s return to cooler weather, that trend is likely to continue for awhile.
And that might be part of the reason for an increase in jet noise complaints recently — the wind. Read more →
By all accounts, Misty Leonida’s son, Eli, 13, was looking forward to Halloween last weekend when he could help pass out candy and celebrate the day as family. He was going to trick-or-treat with his West Side St. Paul friends. Then he had a seizure and ended up in the hospital. Read more →
Maybe Minnesotans won’t invite you to their home. But they’ll bring you doughnuts. What more can you want? Read more →
On the list of great jobs, we’re going to have to put Yves Rossy’s. He’s a ‘jetman.’ He flies around with a jetpack on his back, making appearances at various air shows as he did two years ago over in Oshkosh, his first public flight in the United States.
Now he’s upped his game even more.
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On Halloween, Georgia state trooper Nathan Bradley heard the particulars on his police radio of a traffic accident not far away from where he was patrolling.
He headed for the scene, he writes.
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High schools that may have resisted dumping their offensive Native American nicknames now have an additional incentive to do so: Money.
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The New York Times isn’t that thrilled with the Honeycrisp apple, a fruit that has a thicker skin than some Minnesotans, apparently. Read more →
‘Where is the most dangerous place for free speech in America? It’s not Iran, it’s not North Korea. We’re not going there,’ Grand Forks City Council member Terry Bjerke told a crowd this week. ‘The college campuses and the University of North Dakota are the most dangerous places for free speech.’ Read more →
The Wild ranked fourth among all major sports teams in amount of money accepted for patriotic displays, according to a congressional report released Wednesday. Read more →
Daniel Heinrich has not been charged with any crime relating to the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling. But officials identified him with a phrase that presents ethical questions for journalists: person of interest. Read more →
In the case Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz the story today is, again, how we don’t know what we think we know. Read more →
Gary and Kris Rothers buried their daughter, Abby, in August in St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish cemetery on south Highway 61 in Hastings, and then found that pots of mums were being stolen, a despicable crime, of course. Read more →
Have you ever noticed when the Star Tribune takes a photograph of its all-metro high school sports teams, it poses boys differently than the girls? Read more →
Cirrus, deservedly, is getting all of the credit for a happy ending in the sky yesterday, but BRS Aerospace, a company at South St. Paul’s Fleming Field deserves a healthy share of it. They make the parachute system that saved a pilot’s life. Read more →
It’s a bit hard to read the tea leaves this week on the subject of taxes, the new third-rail of politics in Minnesota and elsewhere. Read more →
Bob Collins