With the seasons first big snowfall behind us, the “steamed because I got towed” season is well underway.
In Mankato, 332 cars were towed during the snow emergency on Monday, overflowing the impound lot that usually handles an average of about 150 towed cars when it snows.
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The Democrats’ search for a savior — a party chairman — is tilting toward Minneapolis congressman Keith Ellison, but it’s not hard to miss the clear dissatisfaction with the choices party leaders have been given, Politico indicates in a survey of them today. Read more →
The State Patrol said the truck’s windows had fogged up and frozen with yesterday’s cold temperatures so she couldn’t see where she was going, and was going to pull over to clear things up.
Why does this happen?
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Sometime between Sunday and Tuesday morning, someone broke in and stole the Christmas presents under the tree of one of the families in the building, the Duluth News Tribune says. Read more →
The family of Shane Paul Lohan, of Hanover, Mass., wasn’t reluctant to describe their son in the obituary his mother had to write for him last week.
He was a drug user; heroin, as near as we can tell. It killed him at he age of 24. Read more →
Real Minnesotans? They’re the ones who’ll stand along the canal in Duluth when an ice-laden ship like the Great Lakes Trader comes in from the netherworld of lake Superior as it did today. Read more →
It’s entirely possible the alleged resurgence of vinyl has been overstated. Read more →
On the list of people who are going places in this world, we can safely add the name of Jakeem Tyler, spotted in a Chick-fil-A in Avon, Indiana last week by Cameron Nelson. Read more →
What makes some out-of-towners adopt Minnesota? Let’s ask Ralph Bradley, who was an undercover narcotics officer in the Oakland, Calif., area when he first set foot on Minnesota sod. He was here picking up a prisoner. Read more →
You’ll have to work hard to find any significant logic in the interviews Vox’s Sarah Kliff did with residents in Kentucky, who apparently voted for Donald Trump because they didn’t think he and the Republicans would really take away their health insurance coverage.
He was, you may recall, the candidate promising to repeal Obamacare. Read more →
Baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement will ban the ‘tradition’ in which young players are required on a late-season road trip to travel while wearing outrageous costumes.
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It was such a sweet story when KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert, who has a habit of finding them, told the tale of Greg Thomas, who restored a declining church in Montgomery, Minn. He was fighting cancer and, the story goes, he wanted to fix up St. John’s church when he stopped to pray. Read more →
Eric Schmitt-Matzen, of Tennessee, is a professionally trained Santa Claus, but nothing can prepare any Santa Claus for what the Knoxville News Sentinel says Schmitt-Matzen faced this season. Read more →
How could actor and comedian Nick Offerman outdo last year’s online ‘ad’ for a whisky in which he sat in front of a yule log fire for 45 minutes?
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