Bob CollinsThere was quite a display of the night-and-day difference between Wisconsin and Minnesota up north today. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
British elections illuminated a big problem with polls in the first place: People vote based on them. Read more →
Just in time for Mother’s Day, writer Chad Prevost is doing his part for dads. Prevost is a stay-at-home dad who, like many fathers, didn’t notice how poorly fathers are portrayed in pop culture until he became one. Read more →
The Defense Department pays NFL teams to honor service members on game day. The Vikings have pulled in more than $600,000. How patriotic is that? Read more →
NPR has latched onto the biggest Minnesota controversy of the legislative session so far — eye contact.
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Where are all the Minnesota Twins players when they play the National Anthem at Target Field? Read more →
Privacy rules are requiring the public to try to piece together the shards of information stemming from an alleged rape in a University of Minnesota dorm last Sunday morning. Read more →
South Dakota has had some weird marketing campaigns lately, but maybe they should just turn things over to Rebecca of sunny Vermillion. The way the White House described it today, she’s behind his decision to finally visit the one state in the country he’s never visited. Because who can pass up a state known for Read more →
Last month, while celebrating his eldest son’s birthday, Jeremy Sartain accidentally left the door to his East Side garage open for about an hour. Just long enough for a couple of thieves to steal two of his bikes that were worth more than a combined $13,000.
And because of that theft, kids in the area are going to get their broken bikes working again.
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It’s been awhile since a newspaper’s investigation has caused the nationwide stir that today’s New York Times probe into nail salons had. And with good reason; slave labor isn’t supposed to happen here.
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After several seasons of poor smelt runs, the tiny fish are back in Lake Superior, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports today. That’s a big deal because it’s brought smelt anglers back to the Northland.
Both the smelt and those in search of them only come out at night.
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A bear was stuck in a tree in Duluth yesterday– or maybe it was just fine up there; it’s hard to know unless you’re a bear. Nothing was working to get the bear down. Not even a radio guy dressed up as a bear as part of a shtick for a local radio station.
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Duluth-based Cirrus Aircraft is one of the state’s success stories, especially considering its location. So why are they building a new $15 million facility in Tennessee? Read more →
Paul Tosto
OK, it’s not just Minnesota. Wisconsin and the Dakotas have some of the best credit scores in the country and do better than most of the U.S. in paying on time. Read more →
Today’s lesson that real life is not Hollywood comes from Boston, where Boston Marathon runner Barbara Tatge of Tennessee, on a dare from her daughter, stopped to kiss the first man she saw in Wellesley. Read more →