Bob CollinsGeoff Fearns, 59, is no slouch when it comes to big money. He’s president of TriPacific Capital Advisors, with a half-billion dollars of real estate holdings. But when he needed to give up a seat, he was just another little person on a big airline. Read more →
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Orin Doty, who died late last month, provides today’s quote worth remembering: ‘One person doing something is better than a thousand people doing nothing.’ Read more →
When is soon too soon in social media marketing that uses the worst day a man had as the foundation of a Twitter joke? Two brands are testing the question; one has already conceded defeat. Read more →
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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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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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 →
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 →
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 →
If you expected Bekah and Derrick Quirin to give up on the Appalachian Trail after a few days, forget it Read more →
Watch it while you can because this online ad for Pepsi isn’t going to be around long. Read more →
A construction company in La Crosse, Wis., is taking down employment billboards that featured a #NoSnowflakes hashtag, but not because of pressure. Read more →
There’s nothing better at the end of the day than coming home to a wild turkey on your couch. Insert obvious joke here. Read more →
Halima Aden, of St. Cloud, is a 19-year-old model who recently was walking the runways of New York and Milan. But she’s back in St. Cloud cleaning hospital rooms now. Read more →
There was nothing really new in CBS On the Road correspondent Steve Hartman’s piece this week on Chris Ingraham, who moved to Red Lake County after declaring it the worst place to live in America.
But it’s another chance to see the high falutin’ East Coast media pay attention to us, even if it is to profile a high falutin’ East Coast media guy living the good life in flyover country. Read more →
And no hour is too late to keep the salute between ship and Lift Bridge quiet. Read more →