Everything is ready to go for another school year at Spring Lake Park High School.
The desks are arranged, the flag is up, and the note that tells authorities the condition of students in the classroom if there’s a lockdown is in a handy spot. Read more →
There are times when it seems as though the world is in flames. These are the times when we must remember that humankind occasionally stops to cheer on people who show up for the World Bog Snorkeling Championships held in the Waen Rhydd peat bog in Llanwrtyd Wells over the weekend. Read more →
It’s hard to throw out a first pitch with the weight of Olympic gold medals around your neck. Fortunately, Katie Ledecky had some guy around — Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper — who wasn’t doing anything. Read more →
While watching Simone Manuel accept her gold medal at the Olympics in Rio last evening, I was thinking about this story from MPR News’ Laura Yuen about the “swimming gap” between white people and people of color. Read more →
Betsy Davis took her own life about a month after a California law took effect that declared that she had a right to. She had ALS, and so she gathered her friends for a two-day party that ended with her under a hillside canopy, saying goodbye to the friends who showed up. Read more →
About 400,000 mattresses are purchased in Minnesota every year, which usually means about 400,000 mattresses are thrown out, sometimes by the side of the road. Read more →
The Democratic National Convention hadn’t even started in Philadelphia yet before we got our first entry in the “disrespect for the flag” category. Read more →
Now that we’ve gotten the whole texting-and-driving problem solved… Read more →
On most Election Days, women who pick up their ‘I voted’ sticker, head for a cemetery to remember why they could. Read more →
Posit: At least on a day like today, the best job in Minnesota is reroofing a church steeple in St. Paul, while being hoisted in a bucket and suspended by a crane Familiarity with the book of Isaiah optional.
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We know that President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands inside the Palace of the Revolution during their meeting today because we’ve got the picture to prove it. Read more →
Thirteen thousand refugees are stranded at the Idomeni refugee camp on the Macedonia-Greece border, the BBC reports today.
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Whether it’s on a Willmar, Minn., street or the San Francisco Bay Bridge, It’s amazing how the extraordinary act of saving lives is just another day on the job for cops. Read more →
How long would we last if there were actually real disruption and chaos? Read more →
Remember when people made fun of foreign tourists for constantly viewing the world through their video cameras?
This tweet from a Christian pop duo aboard a Southwest Airlines flight today proves — again — that those tourists were ahead of their time. Read more →
Bob Collins