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November 17, 2011 10:52 AM

AAA: Thanksgiving travel expected to hit highest level since recession

Travel tracker AAA says 42.5 million people plan to hit the road in the United States to visit family and friends this Thanksgiving -- the highest number since the start of the recession.

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November 16, 2011 6:00 PM

Facebook friends, let's have a look in those lunchboxes

Inspiring quotes are a dime a dozen. He wants the minutiae.

by Joseph Scrimshaw

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November 10, 2011 4:53 PM

Dining with Dara: Best new Twin Cities restaurants

This has been a good year for restaurants in the Twin Cities. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl from Minnesota Monthly says that 2011 was surprisingly delicious. She writes about the Best New Restaurants for the current issue of the magazine, and joins MPR's Tom Crann to talk about her picks.

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl

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November 9, 2011 9:25 AM

Small Mpls farmers markets require more vendors to be farmers

A new city ordinance says at least 60 percent of the vendors at most farmers markets have to be food growers.

by Elizabeth Dunbar

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November 7, 2011 3:53 PM

Wind limits success on Minnesota deer opener

Windy weather meant limited success on the opening weekend of Minnesota's firearms deer season.

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November 3, 2011 4:00 PM

Dining with Dara: Lake Superior herring

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, the food writer for Minnesota Monthly, has been eating a lot of herring lately. She loves the fish we call lake herring, which is not "real" herring.

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl

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November 2, 2011 7:43 AM

Skyway reopens

You take the skyway, high above the busy little one-way...

by Tim Nelson

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October 28, 2011 2:45 PM

La Salle Lake land in northern Minn. opens to the public

A 1,000-acre piece of land in northern Minnesota that contains the second-deepest lake in the state is now open to the public.

by Elizabeth Dunbar

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October 26, 2011 12:00 AM

Side by side: bicycles, cars and our communities

While the Twin Cities are generally considered bike friendly, a proposal to expand cycling in St. Paul is facing vocal opposition. Is this another example of a growing divide between bike advocates, pedestrians and motorists?