Bob Collins
Bring your guns to church day, is Twitter helping the Iran crackdown, Keillor looks back at 35 years of A Prairie Home Companion, why you can’t trust online product reviews, and why the U.S. rail system is a disaster. Literally.
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As investigators continue to focus on faulty airspeed indicators as the cause of the Air France crash off the coast of Brazil, the National Transportation Safety Board says a Northwest Airlines Airbus 330 may have had a similar problem. In a release late Thursday, the NTSB said the Northwest jet was flying between Hong Kong Read more →
The truth about Cronkite
Pork spending
Airline horror stories, what happens after a soldier is killed, to embed or not embed, when lifeguards make a difference
Dishonorable mention
Than Tibbetts
A spate of spring storms left the Red River Valley with swollen creeks and streams over the past week. Eventually, all that water must pour into the Red River and head north to Canada. The photo above was taken yesterday on the north end of the Island Park Levee in Fargo. Instead of a lake, Read more →
Is thinking back in fashion, the jobs that can’t be filled, the Timberwolves trade, urban beekeepers, is the Appalachian Trail in Argentina, and what’s the use of long-term planning by short-term-thinking politicians?
The very tail end of President Obama’s news conference today provided the best glimpse into the workings of the White House Press Corp