Sure, at first blush it looks like Northfield just took itself out of the running for most bicycle-friendly city in Minnesota. Nothing could be further from the truth, however. There’s lots of bike parking in the city, and even two repair stations. But it caused a bit of a stir anyway.
Still, this dismantling of the bike locked to a traffic signpost today presents a mystery to us. Read more →
Richard Murphy, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas, and Louis-Philippe Beland, assistant professor of economics at Louisiana State University, released research of their study of the impact of a mobile phone ban on student test scores Read more →
Minnesota Orchestra’s appearance in Cuba has gotten plenty of well-deserved attention. But another facet of the concert tour in the Communist nation is getting some attention today. How is it that a certain public radio outlet is able to broadcast from the closed country?
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Washington state tops the list with a 66.2 score. Minnesota is at 62.7 with some breathing room between it and Delaware (54.8). But upstarts are coming up on our left. Read more →
St. Louis Park is about to do something no other city in Minnesota has done. It’s considering banning plastic bags.
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It apparently will be quite a trial when a lawsuit against Madeline Island officials goes to court — if it ever does.
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Admittedly, if I weren’t a New England Patriots fan, I’d be pretty giddy about the NFL’s sudden interest in the integrity of the league, which you’ve probably heard resulted in a big penalty against the team today for domestic assault child abuse performance enhancing drugs removing air from a football. But I understand why the Read more →
It’s called bubble soccer and it’s just like real soccer except there’s no goalies, there’s a fair amount of scoring, and players play inside bubbles. Oh, and people don’t take it so seriously. Read more →
The reality is it’s not OK to show people online you’re not OK. The missing discussion is how are we to change that fact? Read more →
Just as baseball is making a comeback in Minnesota, we’ve got another op-ed today mourning its decline.
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There’s some pushback against the video of an otter in Fargo destroying an iPhone encased in an OtterBox protective case.
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Journalist Seymour Hersch is leveling charges that the American story of the killing of Osama bin Laden is full of lies. Read more →
Nothing says ‘America’ like a trash truck in the morning. Read more →
International Space Station astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti came through for us in a big way today, snapping a photograph of the Twin Cities, while tweeting a shout out to its suburbs — well, one suburb anyway. Read more →
You have to have thick skin and some real guts to be a newspaper editor in a smaller community. Jaci Smith, the managing editor of the Faribault Daily News, has both. Read more →
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