Bob CollinsA 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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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Perhaps you remember this video from a couple of years ago, when Ken E Nwadike Jr, who runs an events company, gave away free hugs at the Boston Marathon, a year after the terrorist bombing killed innocent people and united a city in the process. Read more →
In the event you still think the National Hockey League or the fans of the Minnesota Wild are interested in getting fighting out of hockey, we give you last night’s action at the Xcel Energy Center. Read more →
The reliance on numbers is about to take a giant step forward with the announcement from Major League Baseball today that it will allow iPads and smartphones in the dugout.
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Politico’s senior editor has pushed back in a big way against President Barack Obama’s lecturing the media the other day on how to their jobs.
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Cesia Abigail, 25, owner of Abi’s Cafe in Minneapolis, was ready when a man named Marcus came in asking for some spare change. She gave him a job instead. Read more →
With so much activist and media attention focused on Jamar Clark, there’s been little energy left for the community to wonder why John Birkeland of Roseville had to die because he once gave a wrong name to police. Read more →
John Witmer, of West Allis, Wis., has more than earned the right to ask a question of any one of the three men who will appear on stage tonight for the Republican presidential debate. His daughter died for his right to be able to ask it. Read more →
On the occasion of today’s unveiling of the largest scoreboard in baseball, let us ponder this question: How much bigger can scoreboards get? Read more →
She won an Oscar for her role as Helen Keller in ‘The Miracle Worker,’ but her legacy should be that she was also one of the first people to talk openly about her depression, which she did after she was diagnosed bipolar and tried to kill herself in the early ’80s. Read more →
Not long after the attack on the airport in Brussels, a familiar theme emerged in some media: Why don’t attacks whose victims aren’t white get as much coverage.
Today, an editor for The Guardian provided a stark answer: You probably don’t care about those. Read more →
Each year, the employees and associates of StoneArch, a Minneapolis firm, spend 24 hours redesigning websites, logos, letterheads and advertising for a selected non-profit organization that usually can’t afford to do it. Read more →
Yesterday, the Secret Service dismissed the idea, which actually came from a liberal Democrat, CBS News’ Arden Farhi reports today. Read more →
Donald Trump is heading to Wisconsin where a pre-visit round of appearances on conservative talk radio didn’t go so well yesterday. Today’s visit is the candidate’s first and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has hung out the unwelcome mat.
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Now that the snow is gone and the ice is out on the state’s lakes, a fact of Minnesota life has been confirmed again: Ice fishermen are pigs. Read more →