A University of Minnesota football player has provided new insight into what the team was thinking when it called a boycott of football activities to protest the suspension of 10 players who were accused of sexually assaulting a woman after a September party.
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Student loan relief, Social Security taxes, religion in school, transgender bathroom laws, and CEO pay are among the topics in the first wave of bills filed in the Minnesota House. Read more →
I’m very late getting to this dissection of a StoryCorps segment last month but since I relayed it on NewsCut I should get complaints into the record, although it did not generate controversy on this blog.
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Little League baseball is adopting new rules to speed up the pace of play, which leads us to ask this question: What’s the hurry? Read more →
It’s good news and bad news for law enforcement when it snows. Good: It makes it easier to track a perpetrator. Bad: It makes it hard to chase said perp. A Beltrami County deputy demonstrates.
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Dodgeball is the sort of sport that can leave the typical scars that high school has a way of leaving.
In Wisconsin, it can also lead to a criminal record.
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What have you got against spelling, Twin Cities?
In an op-ed commentary in the Star Tribune today, spelling bee coordinator Kelly Maynard notes that no sponsor has emerged to sponsor school kids in the regional portion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Read more →
Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders printed out a tweet — you can get them on your computer now — and went to the floor of the U.S. Senate where he put it on an easel, so it would show up on television.
This, no doubt, all seemed perfectly normal to the U.S. Senate. Read more →
Like everyone else in the Twin Cities, we have been entertained by the video of outtakes during a commercial filming for White Bear Mitsubishi.
There’s nothing better than seeing slapstick from mascots. Read more →
For a few minutes this afternoon, I had posted a story about a family experiencing a health crisis and fundraising efforts to help solve a financial burden. I have removed it, however, to pursue additional information that will lead to a more detailed story. In the meantime, here’s the latest on the political side of Read more →
What is masculinity?
Those are fighting words in Madison, where a lawmaker alleges a six-week campus program asking the question amounts to a ‘war on men.’ Read more →
When Frederick C. Sylvia, Jr, of Achusnet, Mass., died five years ago next month, an honor guard played taps and presented an American flag to his family, a fitting tribute to a man who fought with Gen. Patton in World War II.
But his son couldn’t stop thinking about the medals — especially the Victory Medal — that he’d promised his dad he’d be buried with. He didn’t have the heart to tell him in his dad’s last days that they’d been stolen. Read more →
If you want to feel like a slacker then proceed through the link to Boyd Huppert’s story on Danny Pham, who not only believes in making new year resolutions, but keeping them.
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The firing of University of Minnesota football coach Tracy Claeys reinforces a good piece of advice: Be careful what you tweet. And don’t thumb your noses at the people who sign your paycheck.
Claeys was a success on the field and really bad at social media off it. Read more →
It hasn’t been much of a winter, which makes this year’s Bartz Brothers spectacular in New Brighton all the more… spectacular. Read more →
Bob Collins