It’s not hard to find men coaching sports played by women. So why aren’t there women coaching men’s teams? Ask no more, NBA fans. The San Antonio Spurs, perhaps the finest basketball organization in America, today hired a woman as an assistant coach. Becky Hammon is in her final season — her 16th — with Read more →
Cindy Bjerke of Fargo was upset at her 18-year-old daughter’s disrespectful behavior, WDAZ-TV reports, so she sold the Katy Perry tickets she’d purchased for her daughter on the Fargo-Moorhead Garage Sale page. Read more →
A federal panel has ruled that, while deplorable, it’s not a federal crime to beat children for not doing “chores.”
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A Twin Cities federal law enforcement officer is raising money to try to get the family of an Iraqi who served as an interpreter for U.S. forces back together. Read more →
The Atlantic gives new life to the story of a Mormon born a boy but becoming a girl. Read more →
Restaurant bills have something to say about prayer and the minimum wage Read more →
Southern cities are generally more conservative than northern cities; not much of a surprise there. The Economist has pored over the data in a new survey of cities and found a few interesting differences within states. Toledo is more conservative than Cleveland, for example. And Colorado Springs (a military community) is more conservative than Denver. Read more →
The labor dispute in Massachusetts that seemed so unusual a week ago — the employees walked out in support of a grocery chain CEO who treated them decently — now seems headed down a familiar road to many workers. The Market Basket grocery chain gave the employees until the end of the day today to Read more →
No doubt there’ll be many tributes — and from some, brickbats — on the occasion of the death of the former Reagan press secretary, James Brady, who took a bullet to his brain intended for his boss. This is my most memorable moment. It was Chicago, 1996, the second national convention of the year, following Read more →
You think being a farmer is easy? It’s not. First, you have to learn to play the trombone.
In a POW camp, baseball was the one constant, said a WWII POW who this evening will throw out the first pitch at a minor league baseball game in town. Read more →
It’s probably not much of a secret that Kevin Love has played his last game in a Minnesota Timberwolves uniform. Today, there’s another indication that he’s about to start playing them in a Cleveland Cavaliers uniform. According to the website, BC Cleveland, the NBA online store has discontinued selling the Andrew Wiggins Cavalier jersey, even Read more →
Poverty, quite obviously, is still a bigger problem in the city than the suburbs, but a new report from Brookings says the rate of poverty is increasing in suburbs more than cities. The number of “distressed” neighborhoods has grown by 78 percent in the 2000’s, with much of that increase coming in the suburbs. Of Read more →
Gov. Mark Dayton suggested to Jessica Hauser that if she wanted to help her 2-year-old son, Wyatt, with his 200 epileptic seizures a day, she just buy marijuana illegally. She found a real answer in Oregon.
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When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, there’s not a lot individuals can do. We’re powerless in that fact. So, as in other times of tragedy, we light a candle, write a note, or leave some flowers. Reminding us and others that we’re connected in this world of anonymity is about Read more →
Bob Collins