Bob CollinsSomeone called the cops in Asheville, N.C., over the weekend because some people in a neighborhood built a home-brewed slip and slide in the street, which should immediately lead most of America to exclaim ‘why didn’t I ever think of that?’
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The parade in Wisconsin took two minutes and covered 88 yards. Read more →
Were those bomb-throwing leftists at NPR trying to undermine the nation and start a revolution? What could possibly explain this kind of talk on the 4th of July? Read more →
Over 190 immigrants from 59 countries became American citizens at the fourth annual Independence Day naturalization ceremony hosted by the New York Public Library. Read more →
The Duluth News Tribune’s John Lundy reports the Paris tradition of attaching a padlock as a symbol of love has made it to Duluth. Couples write their names on the lock and then attach it to three pillars on the Lakewalk in Canal Park.
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There’s been a really great hashtag campaign on Twitter this week (#WeMakeNPR) as the people who work at NPR tweet about what they do and how it is they came to do it. For many people, radio is a voice, but the reality is the heart and soul of a radio network and radio station Read more →
In Viroqua, Wis., a woman who rescues abused horses is the latest victim of the unstoppable need of social media to shame someone, facts be damned. Read more →
If there has to be a stuck-up bridge, isn’t Stillwater the perfect place for it? Read more →
Chris Weeks, of Wylie, Texas, wanted to live long enough to see his three daughters married, but colon cancer had other ideas for the 12-year Army veteran.
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It appears that it did not threaten democracy in Australia.
It did, predictably, threaten the heck out of men.
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Cody NelsonThe Graphics Interchange Format lets us express emotions so innate we just can’t put them into words online.
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A community group formed to bring TV to the rural area says it decided to stop relying only on Orr property tax assessments to function. It has previously also gotten support from neighboring Leiding, Minn., which stopped contributing in 2012. Read more →
Where is the next generation of pilots coming from? Sometimes, they come from the garage; they’re the little kids building airplanes with a grown-up. Read more →
A case of clear-cutting trees along the Mississippi River in Crow Wing County shows that times are still pretty good for ‘Mac’ Hammond, the megachurch owner and preacher of the prosperity gospel. Read more →
Of four people who survived offensive actions by issuing an apology, three survived. All were men. The woman was a different story. Coincidence? Read more →