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The kids of the Aquinas girls basketball team on Thursday showed us why they’re two-time state champions. Read more →
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Archives for April 2019
Forget Minneapolis. For the true role that college sports can play in society, and an actual intellectual exercise, you’ll have to go to Tampa, Fla.
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Gisele was born premature in 2016; she weighed only 2 pounds. That’s what happens when your mother uses heroin, cocaine and methadone during pregnancy. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
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We’re guessing there aren’t a lot of well-raised adults in these parts who didn’t grow up with at least something from Creative Kidstuff, the Twin Cities toy stores whose philosophy was “play is joyful, educational, creative and inspiring.” That ethos couldn’t survive in our high-tech era.
But that was before smartphones and iPads. Read more →
You can’t go wrong with an obituary that includes fisticuffs with a nun. Read more →
Just as sure as spring is going to come and ice is going to melt, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will call out the pigs who leave their garbage behind after being required to remove their ice houses for the season. Read more →
If you live east of St. Paul you have to really be committed to mass transit to ride mass transit, given the hurdles one has to jump over to use what little there is — like having your car towed from an official park and ride for no good reason. Read more →
Find the spelling mistakes in these signs being posted around US Bank Stadium for this weekend’s NCAA Final Four basketball championship. Read more →
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This is the darkness that is descending. Read more →
There’s nothing but irony in the BBC’s video about a Minneapolis kid who has become a sensation in China because people there don’t like to say what they really think. Read more →
Princehoward Barbecue Yee, of Falmouth, Maine, made a federal case last year out of his insistence that he be allowed to play baseball at Deering High School, which is in another school district from his residence. Read more →
Perhaps it won’t be long before hockey acknowledges what is increasingly becoming clear: constant hits damage the brain. Read more →