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Archives for May 2018
A man sprung a prenup on his bride-to-be two days before their destination wedding in the Cayman Islands. Was that unfair? Read more →
Just when you’re ready to give up on the internet, a daughter in Nova Scotia comes along who just wanted to do something nice for her mother, who lives in the middle of nowhere, Manitoba. Read more →
Lindsay Gottlieb, a basketball coach at Cal, said Southwest Airlines didn’t think it was good enough when she showed her son’s passport to the gate agent, she said in a series of tweets. Her son is biracial. Read more →
Elaine Holstein has died. She was 96. She was also the last living parent of a victim of the Kent State killings at the hands of the Ohio National Guard. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
I cannot speak for all Baby Boomers, of course, but for many of us, there was no more horrifying boogeyman in our youth than the iron lung. Read more →
Because the nation’s courts remain locked in the quill-pen era, there are still jobs for courtroom artists and plenty of mocking of Jane Rosenberg for the foreseeable future. Read more →
A new theme is emerging from students in these shootings.
Students expect someone to open fire on them now. Read more →
With the distribution of high school yearbooks, we are knee deep in yearbook controversies as usual. The latest is from Revere, Mass., where Betshina Bernier’s yearbook quote was taken from a Florida student’s yearbook from last year. Read more →
Plan B — or C, or E, or J; we’ve lost track — is to treat it like a Minnesota dessert; slice it up until there’s just a microscopic piece left. Then just leave it for someone else to take. Read more →
NPR’s Morning Edition made a brief reference this morning to the obituary of storm chaser Jim Sellars, who died in Missouri at age 64 this week. But it did not mention much more than his plan to have his remains rocketed into space. Let’s rectify that: I was born March 3rd 1954 to John and Read more →
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Among the many traditions that appear at high school graduation time, none is better than the one in Rochester, Minn., where the graduating seniors put on their caps and gowns and return to the schools of their past. Read more →
That idea about treating future teachers the way we treat future sports stars is catching on.
ISD 191 — Burnsville, Eagan, Savage — is following the footsteps of Maple Lake (which followed in the footsteps of a school in Iowa), holding a Teacher Signing Day to honor seniors who are going to go to college to become teachers. Read more →