Case “sort of” closed in the killing of Officer Decker, the latest on the Mideast terrorism panic, more proof of climate change, the python incident in Canada, and the man who escaped a falling coffin. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current:
I’m not going to post the usual news conversation with Mary Lucia of The Current today. It’s irrelevant compared to the news she delivered during her No Apologies track today, and anyone who’s ever had a love on four legs can understand. Read more →
Why aren’t same-sex couples inviting the governor to the wedding, another lawsuit alleging sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts, a big jailbreak in Baghdad, the death of Dennis Farina, and why skipping breakfast might kill you. Read more →
The suit to stop the unionization of Minnesota home day-care operators, the unemployment rate drops in Minnesota, how those little memory slips might suggest Alzheimer’s, a man who wanted to testify against Whitey Bulger turns up dead, and the 76-year-old Milwaukee man who doesn’t feel “that bad” about killing a 13-year-old. Here’s today’s news conversation Read more →
Politicians are shocked to learn the things Patriot Act opponents warned them about years ago have come true, what’s the big deal with the Rolling Stone cover, Minneapolis spent $400,000 lobbying for the Vikings stadium, hookers and pols in Saint Paul, and the dead eagle. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current.
The Lark of Duluth crashed on Lake Superior today. The pilot escaped but it’s a setback for people who spent five years working on the project. Somehow, that story got us talking about Howard Hughes, the industrialist and famed aviator, and had us wondering if there are any industrialists left in the United States doing Read more →
Life in prison for Aaron Schaffhausen, the Justice Department opens its probe into the Trayvon Martin killin, can retirement lead to Alzheimer’s, Washington’s minimum-wage showdown with Walmart, and the birth of the vomit fee.
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Shades of Brodkorb at the Capitol, a tuition freeze at the University of Wisconsin, even for Minnesota kids, a compromise takes shape on student loan interest rates, no food stamps in the farm bill, closing arguments in the Trayvon Martin case, and did DNA just prove who the Boston Strangler was? Here’s today’s news conversation Read more →
Our first look at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defense rests in the Zimmerman trial, the Wisconsin Supreme Court sidesteps a question on religious freedom, smoke from a distant fire in Minnesota, a lower gambling age, and why I wouldn’t be a young person today for anything in the world. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia Read more →
A final tribute to the “hotshots,” is too much information being released about the San Francisco plane crash, Illinois becomes the last state to legalize carrying weapons, a new gig for the man the architect of the same-sex marriage amendment defeat, the Quebec train explosion, and the worst to-do list ever compiled for Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Read more →
An arrest in a bicyclist’s hit-and-run death, an appeal against a Wisconsin law requiring women to undergo ultrasounds before getting an abortion, why the flight attendants in the San Francisco crash are real heroes, and “Hug Me Jesus” replaces “Touchdown Jesus” in Ohio. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current.
A Catholic school boss quits because he’s in a same-sex relationship, the Minneapolis office rampage case is allowed to continue, things go from bad to worse in the Arizona wildfires, a not guilty plea for the alleged Fort Hood shooter, Snowden’s dad speaks out, and a border billboard battle takes a turn in Fergus Falls. Read more →
Snowden’s “honor” from Dick Cheny, Texas and South Dakota woo the gun manufacturers, the Stillwater Lift Bridge is all out of lift, the new astronaut from White Bear Lake. Here’s the “it always goes smoothly” news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current. By the way, after we chatted about commencement speeches, Mary acknowledged she Read more →
All the things you’ll be paying sales tax on soon, the Colorado wildfires, how terrorists respond to the spying leaks, the wandering toddler of Pine County, the anti-abortion bills in Wisconsin, and a lawsuit over the most famous song in the English language.
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