Bob CollinsWe’re pigs. There’s no getting around it. It’s an art. Read more →
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The reason we know what Hurricane Florence is doing, is because a small group of people got up this morning, as in previous mornings, and flew an airplane into it. Read more →
Maybe it’s time to stop building houses at the beach? Read more →
A local rock tribute band has been using blackface during the Prince portion of their shows. Nobody had a problem with it, a band member says. Until now. Read more →
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The only real way to survive a Minnesota winter is to embrace it and face it head-on. That was the beauty of the Art Shanty project, in which artists create spaces on a frozen lake somewhere and people who aren’t the type to get pushed around by the weather visit, each experience changing from one shanty to another.
We’re going to need a Plan B, however, because the organizers have announced they’ll take the coming winter off. Read more →
The limits on free speech will soon be seen — or not seen, as the case may be — on Red Wing’s Barn Bluff, the western face of which has served for decades as a giant billboard for people who had something to say even though there’s a graffiti ordinance in the city. Read more →
During the ‘Walleye War’ of the 1980s, after federal courts upheld the right of Ojibwe people to spearfish off reservation land at night during spawning, WOJB helped with the overt racism that threatened violence.
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What we have here is the face of communism, a Northwestern PhD candidate insists. Read more →
You’re a 17-year-old kid, alone in an airplane a few thousand feet above the ground and a wheel on your airplane falls off. What do you do? Read more →
KARE 11 says distraction may have played a role in this crash in which a dump truck slams into a line of parked cars.
You think? Read more →
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The NHL team on Tuesday became the latest sports franchise to double-down on security measures, announcing a new policy that will hit women hardest. Read more →
Alright, let’s figure this out, people. We’ve got a bear in Roseau who investigated what was inside a 10-gallon metal milk jug. It turns out nothing was inside until the bear’s head showed up there Read more →
Bill Trethewey, who wants to be a firefighter someday, had his own way of marking the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Read more →