Hart Van DenburgWe’ve known for sometime that these distant bodies of salty water aren’t faring well, but the news keeps getting worse.
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Paul Tosto
I hated disco music as a teenager. Hated it. I played the Eagles and Steve Miller Band. When punk rose up in the late 1970s, I embraced it. Finally, some angry music! I was convinced then that the punks would end disco for good. But the punk era came and flamed out. Now, 35 years Read more →
Bob Collins
Curt Schilling is trying to keep his video game company afloat and wants more money from the state that’s already given him millions.
North Dakota’s transformation as an oil producing state is no secret. But when you look at the historical data, it’s breathtaking how rapidly things have changed.“North Dakota passed Alaska in March to become the second-leading state in crude oil production, trailing only Texas, according to officials from Alaska and North Dakota … a dramatic rise Read more →
Stories and commentary in the New York Times this week focusing on student loan defaults paint a grim picture of the fallout from heavy borrowing for school. All true, but what to do about it? Among all the Times commentaries, my favorite came from Kevin Carey, policy director with the research group Education Sector. He Read more →
The art of giving back
Labor reparations for your mom
Another baseball team releases ‘It Gets Better’ video
Could climate change kill off walleye?
We stumbled across this video today and suddenly were hit with a question: ‘If the sound of news doesn’t make it to the forest, is it still news?’
We have reached — early this year — the portion of the severe weather season where I wonder if there’s a better way to indicate where a severe storm is than by listing the warning based on a county.
Minnesota will become only the eighth Major League Baseball team to produce an ‘It Gets Better’ video.