Few places on earth seem to do autumn as well as northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
In a perfect world, it would last longer.
Alas, it is not a perfect world.
Karl Randa has cancer and, from the sound of things, the prognosis isn't great. It didn't help when someone broke into his family's home and stole many possessions. It didn't help when the family was faced with losing their home. It helped when his friends stepped in.
You probably figured as soon as Donald Trump blamed his sexual exploit talk on 'locker room talk' that former Minnesota Viking Chris Kluwe would weigh in on life in the Vikings locker room to set him straight.
As a fan of a team that will likely never win a World Series in my lifetime (a distinction, we suspect, you Chicago Cubs fans are about to lose), you'll find no bigger supporter than me of the notion that baseball is the perfect game.
Sure, we joke from time to time that it's like a religion, but we don't really mean it.
We're rather eating up the opportunity to hear behind-the-scenes stories afforded by the new book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The book is published by a division of CBS, so CBS News has gotten two days of exclusive interviews out of the deal.
It was 1918 when activist and socialist Eugene Debs made a speech in Canton, Ohio urging resistance to the World War I military draft. So President Woodrow Wilson -- Debs ran against him in 1912 -- ordered him arrested and charged with violating the Sedition Act. He went to prison.
The PiPress says the meters are more expensive than those in Minneapolis, even though the downtown is generally devoid of retail. The rate per hour next year will go up again -- to $2.25 under Mayor Chris Coleman's plan to 'maximize' revenue.
At what cost to the city?
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