When last we heard about ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, he was about to launch in his homemade steam-powered rocket to prove that the earth is flat. It didn’t happen. Neither did the next scheduled launch. And neither did the one scheduled for Saturday. Read more →
We enjoyed our week in the the national spotlight and somehow we’ll find a way to carry on as we slip back into flyover country status.
But the post-Super Bowl strategy by business leaders and politicians is worth keeping a close eye on. Read more →
Olivia Konrardy-Buchal, 11, of Onalaska, Wis., isn’t that interested in selfies. She’s not that interested in herself. That’s why she started a tradition a few years ago of asking family and friends not to give her presents for her birthday; donate to her designated cause instead.
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Ryan McKenna’s team lost the Super Bowl but he got 36 Snapchats, 21 DMs, and 150 follower requests so it’s all good. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear on MPR News today. Read more →
Darren Rovell, the ESPN business reporter, got under Minnesotans’ skins this weekend when he assessed Minnesota’s standings in the Super Bowl hierarchy. Read more →
They appeared to be sober, so they didn’t get the experience exactly Minnesotan. Read more →
The stock market and the working stiff rarely are on the same page and today’s nearly 600-point decline in the Dow, capping its worst week in two years, comes because workers finally — finally — started getting a piece of the pie.
Investors hate that. Read more →
Normally, that’s a runway at St. Paul’s Downtown Airport. Now, it’s a parking ramp for big money.
Two of the airports three runways have been closed so that there will be a place to put the corporate jets making their way to the Twin Cities. Read more →
When I first passed along the story of Douglas Ward, of Mondovi, Wis., in 2014, I noted that this is the kind of picture I could look at for hours.
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Sorry, animal lovers, but the Pioneer Days in Ridgeland, Wis. — just south of Barron — is going on as scheduled, and that includes the greased pig contest and the chicken-throwing competition.
The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office reports on Facebook that it’s been getting plenty of calls protesting the events. Read more →
A glance around the ‘news’ coverage of the Super Bowl shows the National Football League has done it again. It’s convinced the skeptical world of journalism to fall head over heels over the celebrities who latch onto the Super Bowl, and the theater surrounding the “big game.” It’s hard to tell where the public relations arm of the NFL ends and journalism begins when a Super Bowl comes to town. The league’s ability to tamp down a discouraging word is how the NFL has become a billion-dollar non-profit organization.
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There’s little that adds more chill to the wind than images of baseball stadiums in winter. As long as we’re going to have winter, though, we might as well make something of it. Check out this video with snow artist Simon Beck at Target Field. Read more →
Here are today’s topics and guests you’ll hear on MPR News. Read more →
A check of out-of-town reports about Minnesota reveals that we spend most of the time in the water or frozen to it. Read more →
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