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That tender Comcast tribute to Jesse Diggins hometown of Afton appears to actually be Stillwater. Read more →
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That old joke about Minnesotans being willing to give you directions to anywhere but their home is case aside by a lovely story in the Star Tribune about two families that have eaten together once a week for 30 years. Read more →
‘One life can give so many gifts,’ Jim Walsh writes, “a sad fact that we realize profoundly when death comes calling.’ Read more →
Skateboards, DNA, and lobster are getting new emojis after a rash of complaints from — I guess — fans of lobster, skateboards, and DNA. Read more →
In her New York Times op-ed over the weekend, Honor Jones acknowledged it’s not for women to criticize what other women wear.
Then she criticized the choices of women at the gym, specifically: yoga pants. Read more →
Editorial cartoons, despite their name, are plenty serious. With a few strokes of a pen, they can destroy whatever reserve you have left. Read more →
Photographer Sean Haffey was in a perfect position to get a shot of Lara Gut, the Swiss skier who fell during her run at the women’s giant slalom at the Olympics. Read more →
If people don’t succumb to the temptation to verbalize their first impression — something that never happens on the internet — they might be able to appreciate Aly Raisman’s decision to pose nude in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue.
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Bonnie McGhee was never the pride of Dilworth, Minn., but she could have been had her mother not died when she was 3. She went to live with her grandparents in Buffalo, Ok., met Rufus Brown, married him, and spent the rest of their years in Protection, Kansas. For the last decade, she’s been a reporter. Read more →
The story about two books being removed from the curriculum in Duluth is missing an important question: How come nobody asked the teachers? Read more →
For the last 15 years or so, the comic, a commentary on life in Minnesota, has run in the Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune, but cartoonist Chris Monroe, a Duluth native, says she’s finished.
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Madeline Price really stirred things up a couple of years ago on the campus of the University of Queensland to educate people about Australia’s pay disparity.
She held a bake sale and charged men more. Why not? They make more.
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Actor Kelsey Grammer tweeted the perfect message in honor of John Mahoney, the actor who played his elderly father on the TV series Frasier. Mahoney, who died Sunday, was just 53 when he started playing the part that endeared him so much to the audience that his death this week has elicited a reaction not usually given to supporting actors. Read more →
The Duluth News Tribune says ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ will no longer be required reading in the curriculum because racial slurs are used in them.
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Roller-skating rinks in Minnesota are apparently the new drive-in theater. Nice for nostalgia but disappearing fast. Read more →