Bob CollinsSouth Dakota Public Broadcasting knows how to put the ‘public’ in broadcasting.
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There are worse ways to start a day than with Grand Forks Herald great Marilyn Hagerty’s restaurant reviews. Read more →
For most of us, a minute or two of our workday in the context of our lives doesn’t define us. Read more →
Here’s another entry in our occasional series, ‘Why Doesn’t This Ever Happen to Me at the Airport?’ Read more →
Anyone with a loved one with mental illness will recognize the pain that Sedaris tenderly describes. Read more →
It’s hard to top the sort of passionate squabbling that accompanies sports teams, but with the Rolling Stones concert tonight, this is one of the few days when old rock fans — and maybe a few young ones — can give the jock talkers a run for their money. Read more →
It’s duckling rescue season. The small fowl aren’t real smart when it comes to storm sewers so they tend to fall in with great regularity. And we’re still a people who will go out of our way to rescue them. Read more →
We’ve heard weirder rumors than the one that’s been circulating in the Twin Cities in recent days about Wednesday night’s Rolling Stones concert, but we’re hard pressed to recall when.
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The extent to which the adults were shamefully using kids to make their point in a beef at last February’s Minnesota state high school dance tournament seems underscored by a decision by the Minnesota State High School League yesterday to award medals anyway to the girls who refused them. They had previously been disqualified because of their display.
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Country radio executive Keith Hill is telling radio programmers at country radio stations that if they want to get better ratings, they need to get female singers off the air.
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You hate to see slow, agonizing deaths. A speedy exit is probably the best way to go. Read more →
Memphis said goodbye to blues legend B.B. King this afternoon with a processional down Beale Street. Read more →
Photographer Craig Blacklock announced in an email today that he’s been recovering from burns he received in a bad electrical fire in November. He said he didn’t say anything before because he wanted to protect his wife, honey, and daughter, Charis. And he wasn’t sure how the recovery was going to go. Read more →
Indeed, at one time, La Crosse was the center of the clown universe. Read more →
“The Women of Algiers” is a Picasso masterpiece. A Fox News station apparently felt differently. Read more →