Bob Collins
‘We’re a civilized community living in 2015,’ Megan Bartholomay, a 38-year-old Fargo resident, says. But she says a plan to prevent beavers from cutting down trees in the city is ‘barbaric.’
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Archives for April 2015
Michael Joseph Mooney of Duluth, the man killed in last week’s bus crash in the city, was a hero, officials are now saying.
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Reports of the demise of college were premature.
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There are still a few weeks left in the Minnesota legislative session, but there’s a frontrunner in the gaffe-of-the-year competition who may be difficult to beat. Read more →
The city’s most controversial billboard, which currently says nothing and hasn’t for quite some time, is coming down, Fred Melo at the Pioneer Press reports.
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NPR broaches the next step in privatization: turning the entire air traffic control system over to a private company to run. Read more →
A train in Japan has set a new record for speed. The maglev train broke the record it set just last week when it reached 603 kilometers per hour, or about 375 miles per hour. Read more →
Maickel Melamed, 39, finished the Marathon this morning a little before the sun came up. Keep in mind it started at noon yesterday.
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AdWeek says the campaign is worth the gamble because nothing else has made South Dakota attractive. Read more →
Minnesota classical music fans, you cough too much. Just ask Hilary Hahn, the one-time child prodigy who’d had it with your hacks at a concert at the Ordway last week. Read more →
Next week, as the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches on April 30, the country will be flooded with stories, TV shows, and memories of the war, which — at least for a time — made us reluctant to get into another one. Read more →
Twin Cities writer David Brauer has been processing his past since the death of New York Times columnist David Carr, with whom Brauer worked. He poured it out in Minnesota Monthly. Read more →
It’s hard for a stadium to provide an economic boost to an area when it’s nearly empty. Read more →
If there was any confusion, the Minnesota Court of Appeals cleared it up today: The car wash receipt you get at the gas station is only good for 30 days.
It wasn’t for lack of trying by Don Wells, who bought a $7.99 car wash at the Holiday in Blaine in January 2012 and didn’t use it, even though it said on the receipt that the code expired in 30 days.
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Given the climate in this country, it might not be a bad idea to keep politics out of an obituary. Read more →