Nate Minor
We will not be running with the bulls in Shakopee. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
More than 750 ex-nightclub employees are entitled to damages from their former employers for being forced to make up cash register shortages from their tips, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled. The high court’s ruling reverses the state Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of now-closed party bars Drink and Spin Night Club. Minnesota Read more →
Bob Collins
So why don’t you comment… really? Plus: the mystery of the amoeba, the difference between behavior and free speech, death of a Saint Paul neighborhood, and a pitch for Andre at Target Field. Read more →
Kyle Johnson is photographing, with a medium-format camera, every one of the 92 lookout towers in Washington state.
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Paul TostoHow’s the pay for people who take care of our aging parents and, eventually, us? The pay is not great — startlingly so. Read more →
(Update: NYTimes.com is chugging back to life, as of about 12:15 CDT. The original post is below.) NYTimes.com is down, as of this writing. It’s the first widespread outage in recent memory. The Grey Lady’s official Twitter handle says it’s an internal issue: We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which Read more →
If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s that you can rarely count on a 15-year-old. The fact may cost Anthony Stokes his life. Read more →
There are only nine left in Glen’s Coffee Clique Last Man Club. Read more →
It’s nice to have someone at least talking about innovation, a typical year on the Minnesota farm, Star Tribune’s warning about those New Jersey businesspeople, why has the number of women in the workplace stalled, and more Minnesota moments. Read more →
Orange is the new “whitey,” the budget deficit keeps shrinking, protection for transgender students, is there a relationship between autism and inducing labor, another singing protest in Madison, and the big lie in New Ulm.
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It’s county fair season in Minnesota, the time of year when some counties try so hard to keep something going that might’ve seen its best day.
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Chanhassen ranks high on Money magazine’s Best Places to Live list. Why? Read more →
Kids who make a difference, when an NPR journalist destroys NPR journalism, what go wrong with Ticketmaster’s entrance into the scalping market, watching the lights go out with Alzheimer’s, and the Islamic center proposal in St. Cloud. Read more →
The war in Vietnam only ended this week for Ho Van Thanh. Read more →
Obama says “there’s nothing more to see here” when it comes to domestic surveillance, there’ll be no Olympics boycott, a break — sort of — for people with high-interest student loans, no charges against racist Minneapolis police officers, who needs a $38,000 handbag, and the kid in Sartell who could teach a few things to the people who do. Read more →