Bob CollinsUsing smokers to pay for a stadium for the Vikings, forget an increasing in the minimum wage, another head rolls in the IRS scandal, the twisters in Texas, and the mother who wouldn’t let a man abduct her daughter.
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Tales from off the road
History is a young person’s game, the gas price game, the Texas tornadoes, the poop detectives, and opening day for the Saints.
Robin Hood gets sued
So long, winter; the unanswered question of the marriage debate, a free press v. the United States, the reviews are in for the new Vikings stadium, and The Podium closes.
It’s beyond sad to even contemplate what would make a young high school couple hold hands and jump to their deaths from the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, but we are forced to do that today with the apparent suicides this morning.
And now, an antidote to the stories of kids spending thousands and thousands of dollars on prom dresses.
The AP story suggests lobbyists for green energy have taken a page out of traditional energy lobbying and succeeded in getting public officials to look the other way.
Last night was one of those nights when one might wish Cmdr. Chris Hadfield was still in orbit aboard the International Space Station because his pictures of the Twin Cities clearly showed the blue-bathed I35W bridge in Minneapolis.