Tracy Mumford is a digital producer for MPR News.
The State Fair has been unleashed: Twelve days of delectable fried foods, adorable baby farm animals and long-standing family traditions. Or, if you look at it another way, it’s nearly two weeks of traffic, sweaty crowds, people chugging milk and strangers parked on your front lawn. The State Fair may be the great Minnesota get-together, Read more →
Last Friday, a Ramsey County jury found police officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty in the shooting death of Philando Castile during a traffic stop on July 6, 2016. The car Castile was driving — a 1997 white Oldsmobile — became a central piece of evidence. It was towed away that night by authorities, processed by Read more →
A few favorite finds from stacks of 1930’s newspapers stuffed into the floorboards Read more →
One 8-year-old boy’s costume is a reminder that, for kids of any gender, dressing like a powerful politician no longer just means dressing like a man. Read more →
World Clown Association president Randy Christensen has one thing to say about people using the clown costume to scare the public: “Anybody doing that is not a clown.” Read more →
Call it the “always leave the last bite” syndrome. You’re a Minnesotan and you’d rather admit the accents in “Fargo” are highly accurate than take the last bit of a communal food offering. Read more →
Mitt Romney stepped into the fray of the 2016 presidential race today with a speech aimed straight at Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner. Read more →
Turn on the news now and “To Kill a Mockingbird” is just as poignant and relevant as it was during the Civil Rights movement in which Lee wrote it, or the segregated 1930s in which she set it. Read more →
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