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Archives for September 2018
Today’s daily dose of sweetness comes from Little Falls, where a 7th grade football coach tells a familiar story of giving a kid a chance to have his big moment. Read more →
With a bottomless bank account that puts them at an advantage over almost every other team but the dastardly and vile New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox and their fans are in no position to complain that someone’s trying to make a buck off their Eastern Division championship. Read more →
Occasionally, justice prevails for the innocent, but the story of Valentino Dixon, whose conviction for murder was vacated today after he served 27 years, tells us that there are likely innocent people in prison because they can’t draw pretty golfscape scenes. Read more →
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin raised — then tamped down — the possibility that the Badgers would eliminate sports if an effort to pay ‘student athletes’ succeeds. Read more →
It’ll be a real feather in the cap for justice in America when a lawyer for the city of Orono hauls a 74-year old woman into court to face charges of violating a law over a dock she rents on her Lake Minnetonka property. Read more →
Lloyd Tiede couldn’t hold back, not when the Le Center farmer gave in to reality and had to tell his daughter he’s selling the farm.
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Wednesday September 19, 2018 (Subject to change as events dictate) 9 a.m. – MPR News with Kerri Miller Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation vote has been delayed due to an allegation of sexual assault. Clarence Thomas was confirmed despite sexual harassment allegations from Anita Hill. Will things go differently in the MeToo era? Guests: Kimberly Read more →
The writer for Bert and Ernie characters on Sesame Street says he wrote for the pair based on his own life. Read more →
Alan Abel once created The Society for Indecency to Naked Animal, which believed that a nude horse is a rude horse and animals should be clothed. There are worse ways to be remembered. Read more →
For 156 years, the Santee Dakota people have waited for what happened in a casino conference room in Santee, Nebraska. Read more →
Here’s a piece of advice for people on mass transit who feel entitled to take a picture or video of a fellow rider: Don’t. Read more →
Anderson Cooper, the CNN host, is pushing back against those who are saying he didn’t cover the conditions of Hurricane Florence. Read more →
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Jamie Gonzalez Diaz, of Goodhue County, faced the dilemma too many women face: she had to choose between her job and the kids. Read more →