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Sidewalks get no love in Mankato

Sidewalks hearken back to a day in America where people walked to places, maybe even stopped to talk to neighbors. But that romanticized view has no place in America, judging from the reaction of people at a meeting Monday night. Homeowners in Mankato hate sidewalks.
by Bob Collins

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Is the NFL’s stadium building boom over?

What did we learn from a decades-long shakedown of taxpayers for new football stadiums? That the NFL doesn't bluff.
by Bob Collins

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Why is it so hard to board a plane?

There's probably a social science experiment to be had in one of the most frustrating parts of traveling by air: getting on the plane.
by Bob Collins

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Klan photo prompts New Prague school to cancel play

The theater kids at New Prague High School have learned an important lesson from the blowback from a social media post: Context matters.
by Bob Collins

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Ice out!

Two people fell through the ice in separate incidents within 45 minutes of each other yesterday, the Brainerd Dispatch says. The first was on Big Portage Lake in rural Backus and the second on Gladstone Lake in Nisswa.
by Bob Collins

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Explaining the Midwest

Explaining the Midwest

In the aftermath of last November's election, the big TV and radio networks sent their Washington reporters out to the Midwest and South to find out about this America thing they've been hearing about. Because there wasn't a reporter in the Midwest who could've explained what's going on there to the rest of the country. Until now.
by Bob Collins

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Harrison Ford: ‘I’m the schmuck that landed on the taxiway’

Harrison Ford was nothing if not contrite when he mistakenly flew over the top of an airliner waiting to take off at John Wayne airport in Orange County, Calif., and landed on a taxiway instead.
by Bob Collins

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Delta trolls United

Delta Airlines' social media department one-upped United Airlines' beleagured team over yesterday's refusal by United to allow girls with leggings on a flight.
by Bob Collins

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Public radio reporter fired after row over bathroom bill story

Public radio reporter fired after row over bathroom bill story

Jacqui Helbert, 32, was fired by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which owns WUTC, the NPR affiliate, after local politicians complained about her coverage of a group of high school students who lobbied against a bill forcing Tennessee students to use restrooms and locker rooms matching the sex listed on their birth certificates.
by Bob Collins

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Here’s where the jobs are in Minnesota

If you want to be employed in Minnesota, health care isn't a bad choice for a career, a study from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development released today says.
by Bob Collins

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