Bob Collins
Minnesotans spend an inordinate amount of time looking for new ways to belittle our neighbors to the east.
Vox today provides all the jokes you’ll ever need with this map of the most-stolen cars by state. Read more →
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Tag: Wisconsin
A young bull moose is causing a bit of a sensation in western Wisconsin. Read more →
How far should the news media go to protect the Wisconsin 12-year-olds who were charged with stabbing a friend near Milwaukee last week to satisfy a fictional character in an online meme? Read more →
People, the end of Limburger cheese is at hand! Read more →
In Minnesota, liquor store owners killed Sunday liquor sales — again — in the recently concluded Minnesota legislative session. Now, the liquor service industry is flexing its muscle in Wisconsin where it appears to be controlling the fate on a crackdown on drunk driving and efforts to change the state’s drinking culture. Read more →
The Janesville, Wisconsin school superintendent has apologized for the showing of this video last month at a high school day to bring ‘attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools.’ Read more →
This is a good day to pay attention to Nickolas Butler, of Fall Creek, Wisconsin, near Eau Claire, who gets plenty of New York Times love today for his book, ‘Shotgun Lovesongs.’ Read more →
Why Minnesota works and Wisconsin doesn’t, the band of brothers who stick up for a first-grader, the woman behind the hockey microphone, the B-17 flyover in Green Bay, and why Dilbert’s creator wanted his father to die. Read more →
Republican legislators in Wisconsin have introduced a bill protecting race-based nicknames in the state’s school districts.
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Wisconsin government declares, “Disperse ye Singers!” Read more →
A deal is a deal when it comes to surrogate birth, even if the mother changes her mind, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today. The court ruled in the case of Monica Schissel of Columbus, Wis., who changed her mind after agreeing to bear a child for David and Marcia Rosecky of Menomonee Falls, using Read more →
My colleague, Paul Tosto, has a loving passion in pointing out Minnesota’s dominance over the state to our east when it comes to the economy. Today, he’s got a little more ammunition from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve. In a report today, the Fed says Minnesota is rapidly catching up to Wisconsin in the total number Read more →
Clearing off the desk of items that’ve been sitting here a week or so. There goes the Federal Reserve again, destroying perceptions. In its assessment of state economies released a couple of weeks ago for April 2013, only five states have contracting economies under a survey’s method. And two of them border the fair state Read more →
When Wisconsin’s biggest event — the air show in Oshkosh — takes place next month, the FAA will be providing air traffic controllers at what becomes the world’s busiest airport, and the organization that sponsors the event is hopping mad about it. The Experimental Aircraft Association announced today it’s agreed to pay $450,000 in expenses Read more →