Trisha Murphy, single mother of four in Sullivan, Maine who’s picking up shifts at the local Denny’s while carrying a course load at school, was fretting on Saturday. Her Christmas shopping wasn’t done, her car had been towed with a $735 bill and she’d barely made it to work on time. Read more →
There’s no real significance to the list, of course. Traffic is enhanced or depressed by any number of factors, mostly involving who picks up and amplifies a post. This year was no exception. Read more →
Mary Louise Kelly, who made a name for herself weeks ago with a grilling of her boss in the wake of a sexual misconduct scandal, is the new anchor of NPR’s All Things Considered. Read more →
For 118 years now, the Audubon Society has used people power around the country to hold a census of birds. In Duluth, Milton Blomberg checked ‘boreal owl’ off the list.
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In this week’s episode of comedian Bill Murray’s Facebook show touring minor league ballparks, we learn that the University of St. Thomas Freshman Immersion Program taught the kids how to do ‘the wave.’
Oh, UST, how could you? Read more →
A Rochester brewpub’s beer label is intended to show that the perception of women is not what it may seem. Or so Grand Rounds Brewing CEO Tessa Leung tells
KIMT, defending the label against an assertion by a local pastor that it’s offensive. Read more →
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There appears to be an opening for Minnesota’s favorite icon and even though he’s retiring, it’s still not too late to properly honor Mark Seeley, the U of M climatologist who can make you feel better about just about anything. Read more →
Sharon Zimmerman, a University of Minnesota graduate, couldn’t sleep one night in early October. So, up late (or early), she went outside for a respite. That’s when she came face to face with the ‘Tubbs fire’ in Santa Rosa, a sudden wind-whipped wildfire that wiped out the California suburb.
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It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good obituary to ponder but Mariel Kinsey has provided us with one, even if she had to go to extreme lengths to do so. She died in Ashfield, Mass., last Friday, but not before writing her own obituary. Read more →
The end-of-the-year awards season is usually fairly predictable stuff but the Comedy in Wildlife Photography award is certainly an exception.
We have our winners in the 2017 competition!
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It feels as though former NHL player Scott Young was talking to the hockey factories of Minnesota when he was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame this week in Boston. Read more →
Let’s pause to observe the half-full nature of an ice storm in Minnesota in December.
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The students walking to McNally Smith each day were a constant reminder that people still chase dreams despite the odds and despite the cacophony from the 2017 economy that says those days are over; chase dreams on the side. What kids need are jobs that can support them. Passion is so yesterday. Read more →
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