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Archives for March 2018
The twist this year: Assessing how great the kids’ lives have become because they made the hockey hair all-star team. Read more →
Every two years, the graves and names on a nearby cemetery wall are decorated with photos; 74 Minnesotans have no accompanying photograph. Dutch and American volunteers are trying to find images in time for this year’s tribute. Read more →
Paul TostoNZK Productions has a permit to shoot Saturday on the state Capitol grounds. NZK is perhaps best known as the firm behind the ABC TV spectacle, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” which already has an intriguing Minnesota connection. Read more →
March 9, 2018 (Subject to change as events dictate) Until 9 a.m. – Morning Edition Marissa and Hannah Brandt are sisters and ice hockey Olympians. They’ve returned to Minnesota; How arming teachers fails students of color; the impact of Gary Cohn’s exit on Wall Street; Mississippi’s abortion bill passes; a StoryCorps featuring climate scientists; and Read more →
Is it possible in America for people to get ahead without someone falling back? Read more →
When Shaeen Pasha’s mother sat outside a Brooklyn brownstone — jobless, penniless, and about to be homeless — the neighborhood mostly ignored her. And then a white woman — “the Landlady” — said she had a room and would provide shelter.
She’s thought about her a lot lately. Read more →
Northeastern University’s women’s basketball team’s bus got stuck in the snow during a blizzard yesterday in Philadelphia. But their women. Women handle stuff. Consider it handled.
No problem. They’re women. Women handle stuff. Consider it handled.
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It’s International Women’s Day and social media is paying appropriate tribute to the women whom history has forgotten. Meanwhile, NPR documents the life of a woman who’s being forgotten while she’s struggling to stay alive. Read more →
The result could still keep you up at night. Read more →
Tybre Faw, of Tennessee, is 10. He’s in the fourth grade. He knows who John Lewis is, which probably puts him ahead of a lot of fourth graders. On the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, he traveled to Selma to meet a civil rights hero. Read more →
The state Senate is moving to close a loophole in the state’s sexual conduct law which grants an exception to people who grab someone’s butt as long as they still have their clothes on. Read more →
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In their lawsuit, four people allege the Department of Commerce doesn’t do enough to unite people with their unclaimed money, and that the state doesn’t pay interest on the money it keeps that is later returned to owners. Under the state’s law, only the principal has to be returned once the money’s owner is found.++ Read more →
It’s Wednesday confession day so allow me to unburden my tortured soul. I’d put red light cameras at every traffic light in Minnesota. I don’t care if the person driving isn’t the person who gets the ticket. I’ve seen too many close calls with people who just had to get to the next red light 30 seconds sooner, risking death and injury to everyone else on the road.
The same goes for speed traps. I’d run one on I-94 in the East Metro all day and night and I’d use the newfangled cameras for them too. Read more →