Bob CollinsWhat do you do when you’re an NBA star, are on the road, and have a day off? You go to college. Or, you do if you’re Kobe Bryant. The Los Angeles Lakers star, who’s injured but accompanying his team on the road anyway, dropped in on a marketing class at Boston College last night, Read more →
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Archives for January 2014
Mike Zimmer: "Wait… Who says I'm blunt?" pic.twitter.com/DV9rWyNtRI — Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) January 17, 2014 New Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer tried to assure those attending his first news conference today that he’s one of us. “I’ve gone hunting and fishing in areas just like this,” he said. “I grew up watching the NFC Read more →
The convenience of Minnesota privacy laws, sad Ricky Rubio, how the “do what you love” bromide cheapens workers, the beauty and genius of the diverging diamond, and NPR and the ‘b’ word. Read more →
Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, but it’s got 10 times as many millionaires.
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Details on how hackers used a malware called “Reedum” to steal customer data from Target. Read more →
Should it be illegal to describe someone as a Nazi? Read more →
Gay athletes in the U.S. Olympic delegation to Russia are sending a loud message to the International Olympic Committee that it doesn’t want to hear. Read more →
You can steal the car, but can you drive the car? Read more →
Why a Minneapolis man is suing to halt state funding of a new stadium for the Vikings, a White Bear Lake hockey player shows what sportsmanship is, Winona is the stained-glass capital of the USA, a gay Marine dies a Marine, and the return of BatKid. Read more →
Give credit to Minnesota Vikings fans. Few other teams’ fans do more with a little hope than them. On social media this afternoon, Vikings fans appear to be riding high (by whatever definition you want to ascribe to that phrase) after the team apparently cut a deal for a new coach. Mike Zimmer, the defensive Read more →
The San Francisco Fire Department is defending itself against allegations it was callous in its response to a 16-year-old girl who was injured when thrown from the Asiana Airlines jet that cartwheeled at the airport last year. Read more →
Quebec’s proposal to ban public workers from wearing religious symbols and garb is generating plenty of heat as testimony opens on the proposal. Its supporters, however, say the ban is necessary to protect Quebec as a secular province. They call the proposed ban the “your head scarf or your job” bill. The Montreal Gazette blog Read more →
Poor left behind in MNsure mess, how out of touch do you have to be to get a newspaper column, the tuition tip, a year off for the ice man of Big Lake, and your moment of Minnesota zen. Read more →
A new study from the University of California Berkeley reveals the extent to which your decision on where to live impacts the environment. The researchers found that people in the bigger cities are responsible for less greenhouse gasses, but the suburbs produce more than enough to cancel the cities out, the Los Angeles Times reports.. Read more →
The owner of a restaurant in Texas is selling out, but not for the usual reasons. Read more →