It’s not at all surprising that emails obtained after a university fired a reporter revealed that an “ethical lapse” of not identifying herself to politicians who were embarrassed by her accurate reporting wasn’t really the sole reason she lost her job.
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United Airlines, the anti-leggings airline, isn’t above asking police to drag people off a plane if it wants to give the seat to someone else.
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There’s a fair chance the state government will shut down this spring and when/if it does, trust me, the bathrooms are the first to go. They’re always the first to go. Read more →
There are worse ways to start a Monday than being reminded that whistling is still a thing. Read more →
Leash laws aren’t just for dogs in Sioux Falls.
The Argus Leader reports that Jerry Kimball is out $190 for letting his pet ‘run loose.’ He owns a snake.
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A Wisconsin creamery has found a butter loophole in the law that will allow the creamy goodness to be sold in the Dairy State. Read more →
Charlotte Bleistein has every reason in the world — the biggest being that she’s 102 — to skip her yoga class. She doesn’t. Read more →
More than two years ago, Marc Welzant disappeared from his residential group home in Brainerd. Months of searching didn’t find the man who had Prader-Willi syndrome that leads to physical, mental and behavioral problems.
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Last week, all 12 schools in the Big Ten sent teams to the Big Ten Network ‘League of Legends’ tournament, thanks to scholarships provided by the company that makes the game.
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Many women in Minneapolis have little chance of having the luxury of walking down the street without being accosted in some fashion by a man. So ‘Lindsey’, who started Cards Against Harassment, expanded the campaign by drawing messages on Hennepin Avenue on Wednesday night. The message to men wasn’t complicated: don’t do that; respect women. Read more →
The danger of the news business is it can desensitize us to the news.
If you see something often enough, the shock of it wears away until it seems like something normal. When things are normal, we tend not to pay much attention to it. Read more →
We’re going to guess that if a picture of Hitler ends up in a children’s color-by-number book, it’s not an accident. Someone made a decision to put it there. Read more →
When Lois Yess died at 91, her neighbor DeeAnn Britton, made the same promise to her that Lois had made to her father to keep the southern Minnesota building standing. Last year she bought the pink schoolhouse and has been selling items out of it to raise money to keep her promise. Read more →
The defense raises the obvious question: Isolated from significant discipline, what’s to prevent a cop in St. Paul from doing the same thing in the future? Read more →
A Lakeville South high school teen has successfully tested a rule that had prevented her from trying out for the boy’s tennis team. Read more →
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