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A tweet of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter's skit during the MinnPost fundraiser last week raced around the InterTubes, but, taken on a smartphone from the audience, the audio was difficult to hear. MinnPost has now posted a produced version of the bit.
Jake Maser, a high school baseball player in Bound Brook, N.J., hit a ball to the centerfield gap during a game in 2016. Easy double. But Maser figured he could get a triple out of it, so he headed to third which has now sent his coach -- John Suk -- to court.
Paul gets a new bike
Every now and again, we need a reminder that everything is going to be OK as long as there are people like Paul Pyykkonen and Todd Sandberg who walk among us.
On the miracle of the Honeycrisp apple
A Planet Money story is a nice tale, indeed, with the appropriate recognition of the state that lies just west of Wisconsin, but we remain troubled by the 2013 warning from Mother Jones that the very 'miracle' that the Honeycrisp and SweeTango provided, threatens the biodiversity and future of apples varieties.
The Vietnam War hasn't ended. Just ask Lan Thi Kim Do, of Rochester, Minn., who only met her father for the first time on Wednesday when Wayne Brown, 72, of Los Angeles arrived at the airport in Rochester.