Bob Collins
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness. Satellite TV has brought hockey to Kenya. A doughnut company from Canada, displaying marketing genius, took care of the rest. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Even by the standards of lion-killing dentists, the actions in Namibia of an Idaho Fish and Game official seem despicable. Read more →
Find Tina, the long lost love of Fields Arthur, who was assigned to the Air Force in Osceola, went into Stillwater on Saturday nights to dance and met Tina Anderson, a 19-year-old phone company operator.
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Buckethead had the good fortune to have suffered the effects of curiosity during the Autumn Glory Festival in McHenry, Md late last week. Read more →
Pete Stauber, the Republican candidate for the 8th District congressional seat, picked up a big endorsement when the Duluth News Tribune editorial board endorsed him in the apparent close race with DFLer Joe Radinovich. The seat is being vacated by congressman Rick Nolan, a DFLer.
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It’s a good thing that John Dwan, Henry Bryan, Harmon Cable, and J. Danley Budd had already made some money in various businesses around Two Harbors, Minn., right around the time they started thinking there was money in the ground on the North Shore. The four — a lawyer, a butcher, a doctor, a railroad baron — weren’t particularly good at all things mining. Read more →
The school chief in Shorewood, Wis., has pulled the plug on this year’s fall play at the local high school. The ‘N word” in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird’ was too hot to handle, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Read more →
We should be better. There are people who need help. Read more →
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Racism can put you out of business in a hurry, just ask the owner of Scream Town, which issued a ‘zero tolerance policy for Somalis’ via Facebook after some sort of incident last weekend at the Halloween-themed venue. Read more →
A few days ago, Justin Gallegos, a junior at the University of Oregon, was finishing cross country practice, working on his dream of one day running a half marathon in under two hours. Read more →
A dispute in Wisconsin started in 2016 when furniture executive Scott Mullins trimmed trees in his yard to get a better view of Lake Michigan. Then, uninvited, he went into the yard of Kathe Lake and cut — ‘pruned,’ he says — 150 more. Read more →
Having listened to NPR coverage of Hurricane Michael this morning, it just wasn’t registering. “The city of Tallahassee, known for its extensive tree canopy, says ‘thousands of trees are down,’ causing widespread damage and blocked roads,” but I couldn’t figure out what the reporter was trying to convey. “Dozens of houses on the narrow strip Read more →
There was nothing happening in the sugar beet section of Minnesota on Wednesday. The yards at the sugar beet factory in Crookston were empty, the machines were silent. There were no trucks. Along the fields from Ada into Crookston, harvesters, combines, and trailers sit idled. It’s been raining and snowing and the harvest is on hold.
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