Bob Collins
It’s not every day there’s a coup in the U.S. government, but that’s what happened today with the bombshell announcement that John Boehner is fleeing his speakership and Congress.
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Archives for September 2015
Ex-Metropolitan Council Chair Peter Bell is defending his decision to quit an advisory board on changes to Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun because the group focused too much on diversity and a name change. Read more →
A high school soccer game between West Fargo and Fargo Shanley-Oak Grove was postponed last night for the observance of Eid al-Adha .
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The Pope has lunch with the homeless, mentally ill, and addicted. Politicians didn’t. Read more →
A couple of north country newspapers are duking it out on the editorial page over an upcoming special election and the proposed copper mine on the Iron Range.
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Ki-Yi Days started in 1924 in which a homecoming “chief” and “princess” were named to try to build excitement for the big game against Brookings. Watertown doesn’t want to change. Read more →
Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will participate in the perfect response to efforts to ban books. It will read them aloud. Read more →
One of these days, the Star Tribune’s Brandon Stahl is going to win a Pulitzer for his tireless coverage of the failures of Minnesota to protect its most vulnerable children.
Unfortunately, he seems to have an inexhaustible supply of failures to prove it. Read more →
In a perfect world, our heroes would get as much attention as our villains. Read more →
After its big hit exploring an otherwise non-descript murder case, Serial, the This American Life spinoff podcast has become something of a mystery itself since its producers announced it would be back for a second season.
What case would host Sarah Koenig tackle next? Read more →
What happened after presidential candidate Ben Carson said on NBC last week that a Muslim should not be president carried an important lesson on the state of politics and the nation: There’s good money in anti-Muslim comments. Read more →
David Ortiz, the former Minnesota Twin, provided the opportunity for Twins fans to wonder what might have been last week when he hit his 500th homerun, pretty much guaranteeing him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
That’s 442 homeruns more than he hit for the team that gave up on him when it released him in December 2002. Read more →
It was ‘tear your heart out night’ at Target Field last night, and that was before the Twins and Indians played.
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Some politicians are rushing to pass legislation that would prohibit the renaming of Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Read more →
The last remaining player on some of the greatest New York Yankees teams of all time — no other player may ever win 10 World Series again — has died at age 90. Read more →