A man was getting on a train in Perth this morning when he stepped back and into the gap between the train and the platform. He couldn’t get out. No problem, though. Because people saved him by moving the train. “Everyone sort of pitched in,” a spokesman for the transit authority said. “It was people Read more →
Why? Why does everything have to have a reason? Sometimes the world just needs a little video of a surfing pig, that’s why.
Israeli troops have left Gaza and it appears the 72-hour truce will hold. The troops left messages for the girls at the Beit Hanun High school which was reportedly used as an advanced base during Israel’s military offensive. Caution: Obscenities included in the images.
If you really love restaurant workers, you’ll start paying your tips in cash. Read more →
It doesn’t look like the Mount McKay is going to be a fixture tooling around the Duluth waterfront again, not unless someone buys it and treats the tugboat the way Don Bergholm and the boat’s engineer, Bruce Lindberg, did. The two restored the 1908 boat and worked the waterfront until cancer claimed Lindberg last year. Read more →
Minnesota is generally considered a high-tax state but the Thumbtack.com survey found that taxes was not statistically significant in defining whether a state is friendly to small businesses. Read more →
It’s not hard to find men coaching sports played by women. So why aren’t there women coaching men’s teams? Ask no more, NBA fans. The San Antonio Spurs, perhaps the finest basketball organization in America, today hired a woman as an assistant coach. Becky Hammon is in her final season — her 16th — with Read more →
Cindy Bjerke of Fargo was upset at her 18-year-old daughter’s disrespectful behavior, WDAZ-TV reports, so she sold the Katy Perry tickets she’d purchased for her daughter on the Fargo-Moorhead Garage Sale page. Read more →
A federal panel has ruled that, while deplorable, it’s not a federal crime to beat children for not doing “chores.”
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A Twin Cities federal law enforcement officer is raising money to try to get the family of an Iraqi who served as an interpreter for U.S. forces back together. Read more →
The Atlantic gives new life to the story of a Mormon born a boy but becoming a girl. Read more →
Restaurant bills have something to say about prayer and the minimum wage Read more →
Southern cities are generally more conservative than northern cities; not much of a surprise there. The Economist has pored over the data in a new survey of cities and found a few interesting differences within states. Toledo is more conservative than Cleveland, for example. And Colorado Springs (a military community) is more conservative than Denver. Read more →
The labor dispute in Massachusetts that seemed so unusual a week ago — the employees walked out in support of a grocery chain CEO who treated them decently — now seems headed down a familiar road to many workers. The Market Basket grocery chain gave the employees until the end of the day today to Read more →
No doubt there’ll be many tributes — and from some, brickbats — on the occasion of the death of the former Reagan press secretary, James Brady, who took a bullet to his brain intended for his boss. This is my most memorable moment. It was Chicago, 1996, the second national convention of the year, following Read more →
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