If you’ve lived through a few winters, maybe the Arctic blast and a half-inch of snow wreaking havoc on a morning commute in the Minneapolis St. Paul area as it did today, rates a little bit lower than if you’re a kid from Syria whose home was literally blown from under you. Read more →
The Minnesota Timberwolves (have I mentioned that they’re raising ticket prices again?) are enduring another wasted season as their fans have been convinced — again — that it’s impossible to build a culture of winning for a young team by actually, you know, emphasizing the importance of winning. Read more →
The state’s highest court has resuscitated the case of a woman who blew the whistle on financial irregularities in Minneapolis Public Schools only to have her job eliminated.
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Whose fault is it that nobody but one person helped a homeless person sleeping by the side of a major highway in Minnesota? Read more →
The news that the United States isn’t the best country in the world should startle Americans who’ve never watched The Newsroom. Read more →
Frank Deford will still be an NPR contributing commentator under a new lineup announced today, but his weekly visits to NPR’s Morning Edition are over. He’ll be on only monthly from now on, the network announced today.
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Can we really learn anything from a cookie? Read more →
Maybe it’s time to add history and civics to the list of standardized testing if that’s what it takes to jam home some pretty basic knowledge about the country. Read more →
Who among us hasn’t thought that if we drove a school bus, we’d be the coolest school bus driver ever?
Sorry, but Philip Bologna, of Rochester, Minn., has that distinction. Read more →
We understand that time marches on and today’s entertainment venues need rides and musical stages to get people through the door, but we’re wistful about the official demise of Machinery Hill at the Minnesota State Fair nonetheless. Read more →
You couldn’t have asked for more miserable weather than the Arctic blast that’s gripped us over the last few days. Which is why the people of Duluth have exclusive bragging rights for being ‘real’ Minnesotans when it counted most. Read more →
On two fronts, and from two different political directions, the lack of education by the American voter is cited as a factor in the country’s direction today.
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The demand for larger, less fuel efficient vehicles in on the rise.
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Lawsuits against Jason McLean, who owns Dinkytown’s Varsity Theater and Loring Pasta Bar, are prompting a social media-fueled boycott of the locations. Read more →
Remember when people made fun of foreign tourists for constantly viewing the world through their video cameras?
This tweet from a Christian pop duo aboard a Southwest Airlines flight today proves — again — that those tourists were ahead of their time. Read more →
Bob Collins