Bob Collins
The anti-union effort reaches the Minnesota Legislature, Vikings stadium improv, the missing Doonesbury, health care reality check in Esko, and is there anything North Dakota doesn’t have going for it these days?
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Jeff Ryan, a 23-year veteran history teacher at Prescott High School, has become one of the Lac du Flambeau band’s best friends.
Major League Baseball reconsiders its decision to ban a gun logo from a team’s throwback uniforms.
Rush Limbaugh’s ill-chosen word to describe a law student’s testimony about the need for contraceptive coverage by insurance companies has certainly sparked the creative side of his opponents.
When solar storms fizzle, end of the Hagevik era, the slut culture, lawyers and waiters, and the restaurant review heard ’round the world.
Paul TostoOn Wednesday, the publisher of the Blooming Prairie Times in southern Minnesota apologized for “inexcusable” plagiarism in columns by the paper’s managing editor, Jon Flatland, who “quickly and quietly left town” after being confronted. Small town ethics breach by a journalism neophyte? No. Flatland, a “former president of the North Dakota Newspaper Association and one-time Read more →
How good is that MN job vacancy data?
Experts: Solar storm ‘benign’ — so far
David Cazares
From AdAge.com: The boycott against talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has some unexpected beneficiaries: nonprofits getting more ad time on his show. The United Negro College Fund, Big Brothers Big Sisters and the American Heart Association are among the organizations that had ads air yesterday during Limbaugh’s program… Win McNamee/Getty Images Dozens of companies have pulled Read more →
Eric Ringham
The problem with the Uganda viral video, update on the Marysville tornado ‘stuff’ story, hockey’s life lessons in St. Cloud, the nature of contemplation and introverts, and the photon torpedo that hit us overnight.
Given its ability to have its marketing appear as news, why does Apple have an advertising budget at all?
The source of space exploration passion: Legos