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A cure for politics? Minnesota’s Boundary Waters
No pressure, Boundary Waters, but the New York Times this afternoon is telling the nation you're the cure for the political cesspool gripping the nation right now.
What's happening to the nation's big websites today is yet another reminder how vulnerable we are.
End of the line for the skyway to nowhere
St. Paul is about to lose one of its most distinctive and quirky downtown landmarks.
Wells Fargo has taken actions to rid itself of the stench surrounding a scandal in which it pushed products on unsuspecting customers as part of its employee sales goals. But it has done nothing for the working stiffs who were also victims as scapegoats while the company execs tried to keep the scandal from claiming themselves.
Presidential campaign enters its ‘Weird Al’ phase
The latest New York Times' op-doc features Yankovic and The Gregory Brothers teaming up to try to make us feel better, just as the dance band on the Titanic did.
After a black woman is stopped by a white cop, the two consider the ‘what ifs’
In September, Arapahoe County (Colorado) sheriff's deputy Tom Finley responded to a call of a black man carrying a rifle in a 7-11 parking lot. It wasn't a man at all. It was a woman. And she was carrying golf clubs.
What are the ethical implications in reporting on stolen information without reporting where it came from and why it was leaked?
There is no better sport than baseball
Baseball is just a game that naturally lends itself to overwrought metaphors. That’s a feature, not a bug. And it’s singularly the nature of the game. We pull our past with us — our brothers, our grandmothers, our aunts, our sons and daughters — as we hang on for one more season, one more game, one more chance to dream that salvation will come, if not in this life, then surely the next. Or the one after that.
After teen dies in crash, a football game tries to heal
The Ada-Borup game against Cass Lake was supposed to be just a football game. A young man's death transformed it into something more.
Joe Biden burns out
Since presidents and vice presidents are not allowed to drive, will either one of them remember how to do it after eight years away from the wheel? Let's check in with Joe Biden who, thanks to Jay Leno, had a road test the other day.