Bob CollinsA white sheet beneath a blue tarp should be the image we all have in our heads when we drive past construction zones.
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Searching for ‘real Minnesota’
David Cazares
Toni Randolph of MPR news had a chance to meet Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard-educated economist, last fall as part of a trip sponsored by the International Reporting Project. Johnson Sirleaf is one of three recipients of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in November 2010 We asked Toni Read more →
Swiftly goes the year
Oh, men, don’t worry about being so stupid and only interested in beer and football. Ikea has set up a nursery for you.
It’s Constitution Day. Two-hundred-and-twenty-four years ago today, the Constitutional Convention met for the last time and finished the document which is the foundation of our laws. The delegates, we assume, had hoped that we would read it from the beginning to the end at least once. If you’ve never done so — or even if Read more →
The fire in the BWCA may burn for weeks. It will be long put out before there’s any agreement on how.
Bobi Ombui of St. Paul sent us this picture of the Skyride at dusk at the State Fair. It is a fine — and somewhat sad — metaphor.
In NewsCut’s continuing quest to sample the diversity of weekend entertainment in Minnesota, we give you the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion Parade, held yesterday in Rollag.
As the season winds down, it’s hard not to notice the number of baseball teams that haven’t joined in a program to prevent LGBT teens from killing themselves..