The Cooper High School girls basketball team won its first state championship ever 10 days ago. After the win, the girls were handed a catalog of championship rings and thought they could pick one out. Then they found out the rings cost $300 each. They couldn’t afford them. Read more →
At one time the United Way was a staple of charitable giving; you filled out a pledge card at the beginning of the year (usually under pressure from the boss as I recall from my early working days), the money was deducted from your paycheck, and the United Way took care of the rest, vetting the organizations who wanted and needed some of the money. Read more →
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The laws of physics continue to get a good workout on the area lakes and truck drivers continue to test whether ice is still thick enough to drive on. Read more →
US News claims to use 80 indicators across 10 categories that drive health outcomes. ‘Population health and equity are the most heavily weighted categories, based on the assessments of more than a dozen leading experts on what matters most to a community’s health,’ it says. Read more →
Jose Antonio Abreu, who took the kids from Venezuela’s shanty towns and taught them how to be world-class musicians, changed kids’ lives. He died on Saturday. Read more →
Facebook is denying that it has kept track of your text messages and phone calls without your knowledge if you use an Android phone.
Oh, they’ve done that, mind you. But Facebook says it told you. Read more →
Who could possibly have guessed that Mike Hughes’ attempt to prove the earth is flat by launching himself in a steam-powered rocket would end this way? Read more →
Some anglers think muskies destroy the walleye population so the bills would give counties veto power over lakes where the DNR stocks muskies and puts a moratorium on plans to expand lakes with muskie.
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So savage — even by today’s standards — was Zell Miller’s attack on Democrats that even the White House distanced itself from it. Miller and his wife were removed from the list of dignitaries scheduled to sit in the president’s box when Bush gave his acceptance speech a few nights later at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Read more →
There are angels who walk among us and they are mostly unrecognized until they pick up a paintbrush in a hospital and turn a necessary mask that scares kids with cancer into a Star Wars character who could be the difference between living and dying.
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Sex ads sites are shutting down en masse after Congress this week passed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, which makes website liable for hosting content that could lead to trafficking.
There’s a limit to free speech and this is but the latest example.
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The people of Ely have just about had it with the out-of-town maple syrup gangs. Read more →
Fargo Oak Grove junior guard Tommy Conmy packed bottles of sparkling cider to celebrate after his team’s North Dakota Class B, Region 1 boys basketball title game. It was a good plan; the school has won six of the last nine championships.
His team lost; so he gave it to his rivals. Read more →
Bob Collins