Bob Collins
Dale Mossey, of Clearwater, isn’t done working or dreaming. He gave up the bench to be a long-haul trucker in 2011. Now, he’s starting another new career. Read more →
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The growing chorus against passion increasingly seems like the logical follow-up to the campaign against education in the form of anti-intellectualism and ‘elitism.’ Read more →
Robert Rearson, of St. Paul, was a flyboy of the first order for Northwest Airlines, although he wasn’t a pilot.
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I’m a sucker for stories about newspaper carriers, a dying breed that operates in darkness but still has a bigger impact on the day’s news agenda than any journalist. Read more →
Oh, it got a little chilly and breezy over the weekend, did it, Minnesota?
So sad.
Let’s check in on balmy Mount Washington. Read more →
In this growing age of artificial intelligence, a good question might be whose jobs won’t be taken by a machine?
News writers? You’re in the crosshairs of your new overlords.
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The conversations between the pilot of Prince’s private jet and air traffic controllers don’t reveal much about why the jet had to make an emergency landing in Moline, Ill., just a few days before Prince died.
But they do show the difficulty of getting a jet on the ground safely in a hurry, and the skill of pilots and controllers to accomplish the task. Read more →
Jad Abumrad, the co-host of the Public Radio podcast, RadioLab, acknowledges now that he’s an ‘elder statesman’ of the art form and Time.com’s video profile of him — American Genius — reveals the genius and brilliance of one of the nation’s best storytellers. Read more →
Posit: At least on a day like today, the best job in Minnesota is reroofing a church steeple in St. Paul, while being hoisted in a bucket and suspended by a crane Familiarity with the book of Isaiah optional.
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A nine year old girl is upsetting her neighbors because she dares to write about the news. Read more →
A Gettysburg, Pa., company is in charge of installing bird deflectors along the CapX2020 transmission line project along Highway 52 in Cannon Falls.
It’s a good view, judging by this video the project released today.
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NPR, which was the one of the first major media companies to embrace podcasting, now seems afraid of it. Read more →
A year ago, when Willmar, Minn., was sending layoff notices to all non-tenured teachers, I asked those in the profession, ‘why do you bother?’
It’s a good time to ask the same question because this afternoon, the school board is likely to do the same thing. Read more →
Some male members of an Ottawa, Ont., restaurant had to find out for themselves whether a CBC story on how bad it is being a female server in a restaurant is as bad as reported.
It’s as bad as reported, they found. Read more →
Leslie Shook has flown every F-18 flight there ever was even though she doesn’t know how to fly.
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