Bob CollinsMinnesota’s capital this year will not have a July Fourth fireworks display. St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter on Wednesday officially drove a stake through what was left of the holiday in his city, citing budget costs. Read more →
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Some Wisconsin lawmakers want to meet with a judge who decided a three-year sentence for an Edina man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three women was fair. Read more →
In a stand against bigotry, rabbis and imams rode bikes together in Berlin. Read more →
The Hutchinson Ecumenical Ministerial Association is out as coordinators of prayer before Hutchinson City Council meetings, ending — for now — an ongoing controversy in the city over prayer and politics. Read more →
Can we please let this aspect of last night catch on? Politicians should always concede by playing Springsteen.
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Navigating the new with the old is a design challenge but the newest addition to the St. Paul streetscape has faithfully lived up to it. Read more →
In a Facebook post today, Grumpy’s blamed food trucks, property taxes, old buildings and people from the suburbs.. Read more →
Rosalie Vascellaro’s and Doris Rosen’s ongoing bit on WCCO a few years ago was the sort of thing that made you want to call your mom. Read more →
Members of the Henrietta Fire Department responded to an accident on Saturday in which a pizza delivery person was hurt and taken away from the scene by ambulance. But what about the pizza? Read more →
Sometimes, the eyewitness video lies about what’s really happening. Read more →
Oh, let he who has not fit the entire contents of a small office into the back of a too-small pickup truck cast the first stone. Read more →
It’s pretty unusual to see an opinion coming from the hallowed halls of NPR, so it’s a little surprising to see Scott Detrow, NPR’s congressional correspondent, conveying an opinion on the brouhaha over Sarah Huckabee being asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia the other day, even if he’s right. Read more →
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Around the time that Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite, sent the U.S. into a panic in 1960, the country began testing the aptitude of 440,000 students for the first time, with the results being sent to high school guidance counselors. The survey is still reaping dividends. Read more →