Bob CollinsThe former Minneapolis mayor says he’s not picking sides yet, nor does he owe anything to the results of the Minnesota caucuses, which overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders over Clinton. Read more →
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A World War II veteran’s “dream trip” to the Canadian Rockies is on after a months-long snafu that made it impossible for the war veteran and long-time U.S. government employee to get back into the country. Read more →
In the world of nickle and diming, there’s not much more outrageous than charging customers to take their money. Read more →
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz stirred up the melting pot yesterday when he said that the U.S. should ‘patrol and secure’ Muslim neighborhoods before ‘they become radicalized.’ Read more →
In Stillwater, a person’s home is still his/her parking lot.
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There’s a lot to be proud of when you stand in line to exercise a right to vote. The reward shouldn’t be that you feel the system is gamed. Read more →
No sooner at the Department of Natural Resources announced its new regulations for the state’s premier lake than politicians were talking about undoing them.
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Whatever the outcome of the ongoing debate over whether Minnesota should allow the operation of a massive copper mine in northeastern Minnesota, it’s not going to rest on whether Bent Paddle Beer is sold at the municipal liquor store in Silver Bay. Read more →
Could airports require a new checkpoint just to get into the buildings now? Read more →
We know that President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands inside the Palace of the Revolution during their meeting today because we’ve got the picture to prove it. Read more →
It probably shouldn’t take an act of Congress to get the U.S. Government to stop illegally taking money from wounded soldiers, but apparently it’s going to. Read more →
So this is what it’s come to, eh?
Americans dropping to their knees to beg the leader of another country to run for president of the United States. Read more →
Stillwater is reconsidering the question of whether we have the freedom to park our car on the front lawn if that’s what we want to do. Read more →
These are often academic questions in the political arena, but as the state’s residents grow older, “how we die” will merit significant conversations we’re unable to have now.
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It shouldn’t be taking this long to overturn an Army decision denying women who served as WASPs the dignity of an Arlington National Cemetery burial. Read more →