He provided free cake, ice cream, and coffee for the vets and, we suspect, regularly contributed to the booster clubs, and yearbooks and school functions. He gave scholarships to graduating seniors. He sponsored local youth sports teams, and provided all the reasons local residents should shop at a local grocery, even if the prices might be a little cheaper at the big chain at the edge of town. Read more →
There are angels who walk among us, but they are no match for the evil of war. Anas al-Basha could have left Aleppo any time but he stayed behind, trying to maintain a civil society. Al-Basha could make kids laugh. He’s a clown. Now, he’s dead.
The story of Marisa Bocanegra, a mother of five who was killed in a car crash south of Wanamingo on Tuesday, is the very portrayal of life’s unfairness.
She had finally met her birthmother just a few weeks ago, ending decades of searching for the woman who was tricked into giving her up in Colombia. Read more →
The Morris/Benson boy’s hockey team lost last Saturday’s season-opening game to Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato 12-to-0. Sounds bad, until you hear about the Morris/Benson goalie’s Herculean effort. Read more →
A group of 17-year-old students in Australia has illustrated the obscenity of the U.S. pharmaceutical market. The boys created the active ingredient in Daraprim, the anti-parasitic drug used by malaria and Aids patients, which a U.S. company is currently selling here for about $750 a pill. Read more →
The possibility that Major League Baseball owners would lockout players, raising the possibility that baseball would not return in the spring, ended overnight with word that the owners and players have reached a new collective bargaining agreement. Read more →
Amy Koch tells The Daily Beast today that she’s spent a lot of time in the last few years reading about the kind of political scandals involving affairs to see who tends to come back from these sorts of things and who doesn’t. Women usually don’t. Read more →
James Delligatti has died and he probably accomplished a lot more in his 98 years other than making a burger, but nobody’s going to be talking about that today because
Delligatti invented the Big Mac. Read more →
Another long-time scribe has left Minnesota journalism.
Steve Brandt has covered Minneapolis neighborhoods, schools, and government since 1976 and if he doesn’t hold the record for longevity at local newspapers, he’s got to be close. Read more →
But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the presidential campaign, if you call someone a duck online, whether it quacks or not is irrelevant. What Ellison is facing is the next phase of the ‘lock her up’ mentality that has taken control of the nation’s political debate and the media that tries to cover it. Read more →
KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert confirmed anew a long-held personal observation I’ve had over the years of watching high school sports. If there’s an act of sportsmanship, it probably comes from the track-and-field kids, and it probably involves a female athlete.
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At far too young of an age, students in Renville are learning a painful lesson about life: Sometimes, depression leads people to take their own life. Read more →
A Moorhead school bus driver has been fired after he abandoned about 20 students at an industrial park last week.
This is one of those stories, however, that goes beyond the initial telling, which didn’t include why a school bus driver would abandon middle school students in his care. Read more →
It was dueling walkouts at a meeting of the Capitol Preservation Committee Tuesday when Republicans and DFLers fought the battle of the Governor’s Reception Room paintings. Read more →
Dakota County — Minnesota — Sheriff Tim Leslie is getting tired of the phone calls about the protest by the –North Dakota — Standing Rock Sioux over a planned oil pipeline. Read more →
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