Cody NelsonGood news is hard to come by this week. But there was some at a pizza chain in North Dakota. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Cody Nelson
Digital producer for MPR News
Alamo Drafthouse is hosting a clown-only screening of “It.” Read more →
The Cheerios’ shade of yellow isn’t “inherently distinctive” enough to qualify for a trademark, the federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled this week. General Mills had spent the past two years trying to trademark “the color yellow appearing as the predominant uniform background color” on Cheerios boxes, Ars Technica reports. Turns out the Cheerios Read more →
Mowers at the Crystal Lake public golf course found an unwelcome symbol on one of their greens earlier this week.
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Unicorn Riot, a nonprofit media collective, lets us peer inside the extreme-right’s corners of the internet thanks to a trove of documents it was leaked. Read more →
In resigning his post as the State Department’s science envoy, David Kammen made a little acrostic, apparently giving a one-word instruction for Congress.
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Much of the Midwest has has grave inequality issues between black and white people, according to a study from 24/7 Wall St. Read more →
Jon Dingwall likely saved his sister Taylor’s life in a fatal UTV accident last weekend. Read more →
The lawyer is out of a job now. Read more →
Steve Bannon says he will return to the helm of Breitbart now that his tenure in the White House is over. Read more →
Given the recent discussions on removing controversial or offensive statues across the U.S., we wanted to ask what statues people actually like here in Minnesota. Take a look. Read more →
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, we have 10 hate groups in Minnesota, including a KKK chapter and neo-Nazis. Read more →
Three days after someone bombed out the imam’s office at the Bloomington’s Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center with an improvised explosive device, the White House is weighing in. Read more →
Anthony Scaramucci went on a violent, profanity-laden rant to a New Yorker writer, which the magazine published online Thursday. Read more →
The Minnesota Zoo is turning to us in the public for help naming its newest female Amur tiger cub.
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