Bob CollinsA New Hampshire boy whose home was targeted with racial slurs and vandalism has 17 new friends courtesy of the Manchester Motorcycle Club. Read more →
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Archives for November 2016
The saltie Cornelia finally pulled into the harbor in Duluth yesterday, a scene we never tire of watching and a scene we’ve never watched without wondering if there’s a worse job in the world than working on a saltie? We don’t know the answer to the question because we’ve never worked on a saltie nor Read more →
Seventy-four percent of eligible Minnesotans voted. But that’s down from the last election, which was down from the election before that.
Had we matched 2012’s turnout, another 78,000 people would’ve voted.
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This is typically the awkward time in American politics when a president-elect has to attempt to pull the nation together.
Part of the way that’s done is to assure the people who didn’t vote for a candidate that the person who won isn’t really what the candidate presented during a campaign. That’s the way these things go, they say. You have to do things to get elected.
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The chances are pretty good that few kids playing high school football in Minnesota have had the kind of life Dominic Leu has had.
The Barnesville, Minn., defensive end’s story, fantastically told in the Fargo Forum today, renews an old reflection and question: Why is it some kids survive the very worst life can throw at you and others do not? Read more →
The kids of Maple Grove Senior High School did what they could today to fight back against the racist graffiti that was scrawled on the walls of a bathroom yesterday.
They lined up to welcome everyone to the school today. And the principal ended his daily announcement with ‘I love you all,’ I’m told by a parent. Read more →
The pundits who got things so wrong in the election are still working today and we’re still paying attention to what they’re saying. Nothing else to do until January, we suppose.
They’ve switched from writing about the death of the Republican Party to writing about the death of the Democratic Party. Read more →
Larry Potter was a black man in mostly-white Moorhead. For many students, he was the first African American they’d ever encountered. They were glad they did. Read more →
A Minnesota school got off to a rocky start on the road to making American great again today when someone sprawled racist graffiti in the school bathroom.
Parent Fred Ndip posted images on his Facebook page. Read more →
A website with instructions and help on moving to Canada crashed at the height of returns on Election Night. Read more →
MPR’s best and brightest are providing live updates on the election. I’ll be contributing occasional observations below, too. But we’d like your analysis and thoughts in the comments section to further our conversation. Read more →
This has become an Election Day tradition in the last few years. People vote, then visit the grave of Susan B.Anthony. Read more →
Some things are bigger than what we’ve been told for the last few years is the biggest thing. Carrying on, for example. Read more →
‘The farmer wave is a cultural institution woven into the very fabric of ‘Iowa nice’ that helps rural and small-town folk casually remind each other that they really do care,’ a columnist writes. Read more →