We’re just weeks away from Election Day and it can’t come soon enough, apparently, for people who are in the business of data visualization, creating spiffy interactive maps that are intended to reveal new depth in analyzing who we are politically. Read more →
There probably isn’t a pilot of small planes in America who isn’t holding his/her breath this afternoon waiting for the inevitable calls to ban aircraft in the wake of the National Transportation Safety Board’s revelation this afternoon that a plane that crashed in East Hartford, CT., yesterday was intentionally brought down.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court today essentially enacted what the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year, telling authorities if they want to get drunk drivers off the road by testing their urine or blood, they need to get a warrant. Read more →
The Star Tribune reports that a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press has received a $35,000 grant from the Knight Art Challenge of St. Paul to stage a ballet on Harriet Island during the February 2018 Winter Carnival and and the Super Bowl. Read more →
George Fricovsky, 90, never really liked school very much. But he had other things to do when he was 18. Like getting drafted into the Army. Read more →
The map describes the potential shifts in voters from the 2012 election if one out of every five whites without a college degree who voted for Obama in 2012 defected to Trump and if one out of every five non-whites and college-educated whites who voted for Romney in 2012 switched to Clinton. Read more →
The sign, supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, says ‘Trump that Bitch,’ a reference to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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There are some jobs where it’s impossible to hide when you mess up. Blowing up bridges is one of them. Read more →
Ashley Feinberg, a senior writer at Deadspin, is urging the nation’s journalists to abandon their ethics for what she thinks is a greater good: keeping Donald Trump from the White House. Read more →
The next time we have a discussion of transportation issues in Minnesota, let’s keep this picture in mind. Read more →
Here’s another installment of our occasional series,’Why Baseball is Better Than Football.’
Today’s reason: Because you don’t ever hear about people being stabbed over giant inflatable baseball players. Read more →
Few places on earth seem to do autumn as well as northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
In a perfect world, it would last longer.
Alas, it is not a perfect world. Read more →
A report from the Minneapolis Bike Coalition says black bicyclists are stopped by police more often than their white counterparts. Read more →
Karl Randa has cancer and, from the sound of things, the prognosis isn’t great. It didn’t help when someone broke into his family’s home and stole many possessions. It didn’t help when the family was faced with losing their home. It helped when his friends stepped in. Read more →
Ben Hildre says he wouldn’t have done it if the gorilla costume he normally wears for some annual team tradition hadn’t been damaged. Read more →
Bob Collins