Bob Collins
Who wants to get dirty, Duluth’s honor flight, end of the Memphis hub, the cow retirement home, and Hawking on heaven.
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Archives for May 2011
Hart Van Denburg
Idea Peepshow has documented what many of us have been feeling for sometime. Let’s just hope that steep downward drop comes to an end soon.
Ben Haas is a communication studies graduate student at Louisiana State University. He tried to burn a flag on campus the other day. Things didn’t go as planned.
David CazaresThe Minnesota Vikings’ agreement with Ramsey County for a new $1.057 billion stadium includes a $407 million contribution from the team and private financing. A chunk of that, should the stadium be built, would come from corporate naming rights. Same thing goes for a deal to keep the Vikings in Minneapolis. So…which Minnesota company might Read more →
Facebook and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller are parting ways after reporter Dan Lyons (the artist formerly known as “Fake Steve Jobs”) exposed Facebook’s smear campaign against Google. For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, Read more →
Church basement problem-solving
dgaraets
After a look at the DNR’s account of state record fish, one is left to wonder if the fish have gotten smarter, or simply smaller.
In a few years Arden Hills, Minnesota could be one of those cities that national TV audiences hear a lot but know nothing about. You know, like Pontiac, Michigan, former home of the Detroit Lions stadium. Heck, Minnesotans don’t know much about it. So as the legislature considers whether to spend public money on a Read more →
Bob Collins is off today, and no one can do 5×8 like him, so we won’t even try This just in: The rapidly-spreading “Sitting is killing you” meme may killing you faster than sitting is killing you. It’s producing a lethal cocktail of guilt for enjoying sitting and frustration over the inability to do much Read more →
Stadium editorials, what free speech looks like, the rocketman over the Grand Canyon, the achievement gap up close, and the vegetable hail scale considered.