Bob CollinsThe threat of war in the world has eased considerably today.
There is peace in the ‘Circle Me, Bert’ standoff. Read more →
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Archives for March 2018
This tweet this morning from conservative talk show host Erick Erickson is yet another example of just how polarized and hypocritical the nation has become. Read more →
Tomorrow marks the unofficial national holiday that isn’t anymore: baseball’s opening day.
It’s a spring tradition, of course. Here’s another: Red Bull disguising Chicago Cubs star Kris Bryant and sending him out to see what the little people are up to. Read more →
We’ve never met a state climatologist we didn’t like — or any climatologist for that matter — and we suspect Harry Hillaker would continue the streak. Alas, he’s retiring as Iowa’s climatologist, the Des Moines Register says. There’s something comforting about seeing the state’s climatology records are kept in file cabinets… on paper. So old Read more →
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No baseball institution is safe. Read more →
Singer Andy Grammer and his band, which is playing at the Music Hall tonight, had a performance to make before his concert in Minneapolis: the home of a fan with colon cancer who was too sick to make it to the show.
The show came to him yesterday. Read more →
In a perfect world, someone will lift Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, wheelchair and all, to cut down the net after Loyola wins the NCAA basketball championship next week. Non-fans would be hard pressed to name any of the teams left in the annual celebration of college basketball but the world loves the devoted and loyal and Read more →
The Duluth City Council has become ground zero in Minnesota for the debate over whether businesses should be required to provide paid sick leave.
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The Cooper High School girls basketball team won its first state championship ever 10 days ago. After the win, the girls were handed a catalog of championship rings and thought they could pick one out. Then they found out the rings cost $300 each. They couldn’t afford them. Read more →
At one time the United Way was a staple of charitable giving; you filled out a pledge card at the beginning of the year (usually under pressure from the boss as I recall from my early working days), the money was deducted from your paycheck, and the United Way took care of the rest, vetting the organizations who wanted and needed some of the money. Read more →
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The laws of physics continue to get a good workout on the area lakes and truck drivers continue to test whether ice is still thick enough to drive on. Read more →
US News claims to use 80 indicators across 10 categories that drive health outcomes. ‘Population health and equity are the most heavily weighted categories, based on the assessments of more than a dozen leading experts on what matters most to a community’s health,’ it says. Read more →
Jose Antonio Abreu, who took the kids from Venezuela’s shanty towns and taught them how to be world-class musicians, changed kids’ lives. He died on Saturday. Read more →