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Archives for August 2011
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Hart Van Denburg
Ready … set …
Bob Collins
Although a lot of kids are leaving for college this weekend, we still have another couple of weeks of summer left to go. We stopped at the Truro “transfer station” on Cape Cod the other day while leaving the ocean for the mountains and I captured this magnificent statement on what the end of summer Read more →
David CazaresGawker has a nice little twist on those inane “Best Of” lists, the kind we wrote about earlier this week that pegged Chanhassen as, like, one of the crazy best towns in the whole U.S.A. Gawker’s gawkery-take: The Worst 50 States in America. Cheeky. The least worst state, according to New York-based Gawker? New York. Read more →
Who’s a good boy?
‘Why are you being so weird about this?’
47 seconds well spent
The moose, a freakishly large mammal, is in the news today. And so is the capybara, a freakishly large rodent. In our Today’s Question feature we asked: Minnesota’s moose population is in sharp decline, but the DNR says hunting is not the reason. State officials would like to ban the feeding of deer, a practice Read more →
Are we thinking about the right things?
Our humble metro area is popping up on a few awesome sauce lists lately. Money magazine, for example, says five Twin Cities suburbs are among the 100 best small towns in the U.S. In descending order: Shoreview (52) Savage (51) Lino Lakes (44) Arden Hills (14) Chanhassen (10) Says Money: Despite some 2011 budgetary brouhahas Read more →
A good morning at the falls
Poverty and riots
Thirteen percent of American mobile phones users employ their devices for avoiding meatspace social contact, according to a new survey on how people use their phones from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Surprised it’s not higher, actually. I’ve done this and I bet you have, too. “Cell phones can help prevent unwanted personal Read more →