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Signing ceremony message: ‘It’s OK to be a teacher’
That idea about treating future teachers the way we treat future sports stars is catching on. ISD 191 -- Burnsville, Eagan, Savage -- is following the footsteps of Maple Lake (which followed in the footsteps of a school in Iowa), holding a Teacher Signing Day to honor seniors who are going to go to college to become teachers.
1,000 Words: Flag day for dead soldiers
One characteristic about the original colonies: They have a lot of dead soldiers to remember on Memorial Day. Massachusetts, where the first shot was fired in a war that would create the United States has had 37,268 in war, stretching back to the Revolution.
Trump escalates NFL anthem protest crackdown
Let's fully understand what yesterday's decision by NFL owners to crack down on employee protest is. The owners, under pressure from the government in the form of the President of the United States, agreed to modify its speech to please that government.
Consumer Reports isn't exactly the embodiment of the liberal media, but Elon Musk, the brain behind Tesla, is adopting the Donald Trump method of responding to journalists doing their job.
Excelsior says ‘no’ to school shooting protest event
The ACLU in Minnesota is pushing the city council in Excelsior, Minn., to reconsider its decision to deny a permit for a group that wanted to hold the Lake Minnetonka March for Our Lives, to show support for students who have marched for gun legislation in the wake of school shootings.