Bob CollinsIt’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen a video of one of these surprise concerts that pop up in unexpected places.
That streak has ended thanks to the students at St. Olaf who popped up in Edina last Thursday evening. Read more →
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Archives for November 2016
The Times dropped in on a Milwaukee neighborhood to find out whether people who didn’t vote now wish they had. It found that many people are just fine with sitting the election out. Read more →
If you’re looking for a U.S. senator most likely to fight the policy of Donald Trump, Sen. Amy Klobuchar shouldn’t be in the picture, an analysis by FiveThirtyEight alleges today.
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The court overturned a lower court ruling that the initial search of a camper by a Maplewood police officer was permissible under the so-called “plain-view doctrine.” Read more →
It was 53 years ago tomorrow that an American president was murdered in public.
Let’s consider how much has changed since then by noting that in 1963 there was exactly one video of the killing of President Kennedy in Dallas. One. And it took 12 years before the American people saw it. Read more →
Bernie Beaudry, 62, of Hugo a sound technician for Fox Sports, was a little late getting to his spot on the sideline at U.S. Bank Stadium yesterday and paid the price for his tardiness as the Vikings took the field yesterday. Read more →
It wouldn’t be a bad thing if the world were a little more like Jacob Carrigan.
He’s the bicyclist who was struck by a woman who was fleeing in her vehicle after allegedly trying to hang a young child. Read more →
Joe died on Sunday morning, claimed by the cancer he silently battled, not telling many friends and deciding he’d die alone at home and assuming he’d be forgotten.
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No matter how bad you might think things are, we’ve still got little kids and cranky old men.
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Here’s your daily dose of sweetness, which has been mighty hard to find lately. That’s why I had to reach back to October to find one. In Benicia, Calif., Jourdan Duncan, 18, has to walk to his job packing boxes. “My car broke down, so I figured I had no other way to work,” he Read more →
In modern times, Obama trails only Bill Clinton for popularity at this stage of their presidencies. Obama is also tied with Ronald Reagan.
Not mentioned in the poll analysis why we tend to like presidents more when they’re about to leave office. Read more →
The founder of the team fired the coach who inserted the 19-year-old in to play against the kids.
‘I could zoom right in and see the facial hair,” parent Kevin Stockwell said. ‘You know most 13 year olds are starting to get facial hair. This gentleman had facial hair and had arm tattoos.’
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The reaction to this year’s presidential election allows us to see the difference between Republicans and Democrats, men and women.
In the aftermath of President Obama’s two wins, men headed to the gun stores to stock up on weapons and ammunition.
After President-elect Trump’s victory, women have headed to their gynecologists, to stock up on birth control.
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The four seasons in Minnesota are spring, summer, fall, and hyperbole. Read more →