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Ronstadt a silenced songbird
Linda Ronstadt has revealed that she can no longer sing a note; she has Parkinson’s. She ushered in a pretty fair era in music in the late ’60s and early’70s, along with James Taylor, Carole King, and the Eagles: folk rock. She was the decade’s highest-paid female singer and it wasn’t because of the high-glitz…
It’s OK to love the State Fair
Not much news but lots of good at the State Fair.
Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association and one of the great American tinkerers, died Thursday.
The well-heeled neighborhoods of Saint Paul lead in recycling; the working-class neighborhoods are at the bottom of the heap
Is Best Buy back?
Wired.com has noticed that Best Buy's stock has tripled so far in 2013, suggesting that it's back from its near-death experience.
5 x 8: Are you afraid to take a vacation?
Workers too loyal? Nursing home tasers and the young face of a civil war.
5 x 8: Pay to play for public education
The 'user fee' to get an education, predicting suicide, Indian foster care controversy in South Dakota expands, a Shaina Briscoe update, and Ben Garvin's magic beard.