Bob Collins
It was media day at the Super Bowl today, a day that has not once — ever — given sportswriters any insight into the upcoming game. Ever.
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Sometime in June or July, if things work out as she hopes, Maxine Renning of Los Angeles will ride her bike into Minneapolis. She admits she’s not much of a cyclist but by then she will be. She’ll be riding from Baltimore and will stop here on her way to Seattle as part of a 4,000-mile ride to support people fighting cancer. That seems to be her specialty.
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Paul Tosto
Minnesota’s economy outperforms Wisconsin’s economy. It’s been that way for years. Those trends have accelerated since the end of the Great Recession. Read more →
Employees at a South Saint Paul company might well be jubilant today. They helped save the lives of a pilot of a Cirrus airplane that ran out of fuel off the coast of Hawaii yesterday.
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Glendale, Arizona — where the Super Bowl will be played next Sunday — provides a cautionary tale for cities trying to be a destination by investing heavily in sports franchises. It’s a money loser. Read more →
An estimated 10,000 anglers headed for Gull Lake for the annual Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza. They had no problem finding a place to pull up a bucket; organizers had drilled 20,000 holes. Read more →
In matters of winter, we could take a lesson from dogs, and the people who headed to Two Harbors on Sunday for the John Beargrease race. Read more →
Every year safe pilots wince at the risk a pilot takes so that a newspaper can get the signature photo of Crashed Ice in Saint Paul. Read more →
Insurance hassles and regulations are forcing many rural hospitals to close their obstetrics facilities, Read more →
The snow hadn’t even started falling yet in the northeast’s ‘historic’ snowstorm when Minnesotans and other Midwesterners were taking to Twitter to joke about the East’s ignorance of what to do when it snows. Read more →
If you write a news blog for a living, there’s not much better than a debate breaking out on it over a scientific calculation.
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Could you choose which of your kids to save if their lives depended on it? Read more →
Nothing can make a person feel older than when your earliest baseball heroes die. Ernie Banks has died.
Here are 10 questions based on events that happened this week. Good luck! Read more →
If you’ve ever been to a youth athletic league game, you know the type. Perhaps, you are the type. Read more →