What do you take with you after a lifetime of dedication to a company? The Pioneer Press, still with a beating heart if not much more, is saying goodbye to employees who have taken a buyout in its parent corporation’s latest round of cost cutting. It’s another test in the great American journalism experiment: How Read more →
It’s been a few weeks since all the hoopla died down in the attempt by a Minnesota egg farmer to win a Super Bowl commercial. Did he win? Read more →
Journalism’s Hall of Shame, why do you stand and clap for marginally good art, a school dance for an Osseo teen, why is Delta suddenly wanting to make flying comfortable, and Kevin Love reveals Team Dysfunction. Read more →
Maddux and Glavine were great pitchers. They were also part of the best sports commercial ever.
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There are still wide gaps between whites and students of color when it comes to four-year graduation rates, especially in Minnesota. But there is no dropout crisis, here or in the U.S. Read more →
There aren’t many drivers who haven’t thought what it would be like to end up flying off a bridge they were crossing. It happened on I-694 on the I-35E ramp in Saint Paul this morning. “This is why we’re urging people to slow down, pay attention and watch out for icy bridges and ramps. The Read more →
A suicide fails but the future is still grim. Read more →
Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the Tucson assassination attempt on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. A gunman’s rampage in Connecticut pushed the Giffords shooting to the sideline in the ongoing debate over gun control legislation. Six people were killed. Giffords, as most people know, was seriously hurt, has had a slow and remarkable recovery, and Read more →
Five years ago, Minneapolis-area author Neil Gaiman donated a signed advance copy of his book Stardust to Wisconsin author Patrick Rothfuss who was organizing a benefit for Heifer International. Then a funny thing happened. Read more →
Keeping watch over one another, the cold reality of Minnesota, is there room for a driverless car in Minnesota, Friday Night Tykes, and church without the religion Read more →
Utah gay couples who got married might not be married, more school closings, the last DC-9, health care spending has slowed, what about Jay Gruden as the new Vikings head coach, and if it’s OK to put the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol, why not this Satanic monument? Read more →
The Mediaite media critic site is taking CNN to task for making a journalist bundle up and go outside, pretty much like everyone else in Minnesota who had to go to work today. It was all the way up to -15 by the time the CNN reporter began her “torture.” It’s mostly showbiz. Reporters have Read more →
It’s hard to know how to feel about the big story surrounding this photograph: It’s the type of picture that photographers take when they get the assignment to go out and shoot pictures of the cold weather. There’s always homeless people around, trying to stay warm. This homeless person, Nicholas A. Simmons, 20, of Greece, Read more →
Call it an “arctic hurricane” and the polar vortex sound scary. Read more →
For what did Americans die in Iraq, the oil trains of Minnesota, how a Minneapolis social worker gives people a lift, losing weight eating nothing but McDonald’s food, and the obligatory post about the cold. Read more →
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