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A proposal to name Orchestra Hall after Stanislaw Skrowaczewski brought out an anonymous attack on his reputation. Read more →
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Archives for March 2017
There’s rebellion brewing again in Wisconsin. Some people want their Irish butter.
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The Florida teen, who walked seven miles both ways t work every day, was befriended by a cop who bought him a bike. He’s pedaling on a bigger scale now, the Washington Post reports. Read more →
A new crackdown on border crossings is making it tough to be a tourist to Minnesota’s Northwest Angle, the spit of land separated from the rest of the country by Lake of the Woods. Read more →
Today’s indication that there is no hope for civilization comes from the Pioneer Press which reports there is something called Smack Fest at a St. Paul joint.
It’s women slapping each other in the face.
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Perhaps the Norwegian broadcaster NRK has an answer to the declining quality of comments on the Internet.
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Steve Inskeep tried mightily again to get an answer to the question, ‘Does Donald Trump believe Islam is a religion?’ when Sebastian Gorka, the deputy assistant to the president appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition for the second time in a month and got the question again. Read more →
It’s been difficult to find the daily dose of sweetness lately. Maybe we’re not as sweet as we used to be. Or maybe the Internet is infatuated with other things.
We found one in Canada today. A dad takes his kids ice-fishing. Read more →
In Hartford, Conn., the archdiocese is urging people to abstain from their phones on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, the Hartford Courant reports. Read more →
For all of the fascinating opinions from the Minnesota Supreme Court in recent years on the question of whether warrants are needed to test drivers for DUI, the Wisconsin Supreme Court one-upped them all with a ruling today on whether a warrant is needed to draw blood from someone who is unconscious. Read more →
When shots start, we run. It’s instinct. It’s entirely forgivable.
Some people don’t run.
Ian Grillot didn’t run. Read more →
Salome Karwah, who represented the Time Person of the Year two years ago after fighting the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, seemed invincible.
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An odd thing happened while a Kanabec County sheriff’s deputy was looking for a cow in the road on Highway 23 on Monday night. He hit it. It turns out the cow was in the road on Highway 23, the Pioneer Press reports. Read more →
It’s not as if someone didn’t tell you that the new Vikings stadium would be a bird killer. Let’s be honest: People didn’t care if it would. Read more →
It’s pretty easy to disregard the oldtimers who scavage alleys and other locations looking for treasure.
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