A week or so ago, MPR News reported that during testing of the new Green Line light-rail route, trains were taking about an hour to go from Union Depot in Saint Paul to Target Field, well above the 39 minutes of the original projections. Transit officials insisted that once the trains were timed with traffic Read more →
In Colorado, Slate reports today, the Colorado Symphony, staged a ‘Classically Cannabis’ concert, a bring-your-own pot event. Read more →
Say what you want about it being -25 in January, but at least there are no mosquitoes.
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Unquestionably, House Republicans smell blood in the water with the Veterans Affairs scandal, but last night’s House hearing on the scandal appeared to be more than just typical political theater. Three officials of the Veterans Administration — none of them named Eric Shinseki — appeared before the House Veterans Affairs Committee last evening to answer Read more →
The last time Patty Duke was in Duluth, she had a baby.
It was in a movie — You’ll Like My Mother — in 1972 in which a pregnant Francesca, played by Duke, arrives from Los Angeles to meet her late husband’s mother in Duluth. Eventually, someone gets stabbed.
Whatever happened to the baby in the movie?
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In San Diego over the Memorial Day weekend, the mobility scooter of a Vietnam Vet ran out of juice, leaving him stranded along the road.
Even the typical ‘police lingo’ in the official report can’t take the humanity out of the story. Read more →
The Texas Rangers beat the Minnesota Twins 1-0 last night at Target Field. There were only a total of 14 hits between the two teams which, theoretically, should’ve been played lickety split and everyone could be heading home by 9:45 to get up for work.
But the game approached 3 1/2 hours. This is typical of baseball these days. Read more →
A study out this week says deep-brain stimulation, intended as a treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder, leads to a greater appreciation of the music of Johnny Cash. Read more →
For hundreds of people in the Twin Cities, the difference between homelessness and a more stable existence is a pair of black, no-slip shoes. Or barber tools. Or a bus pass. Or work clothes. Or an electrician’s license renewal. Read more →
Maybe when you grow up in Aberdeen, you have a natural inclination to see the rest of the world. That might explain why Matt Guthmiller, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is going to try to become the youngest person ever to fly around the world by himself. Read more →
President Obama yesterday announced that the U.S. will leave about 10,000 troops in Afghanistan by 2016, ending the war in Afghanistan.
Is it too soon to ask who won the war? Read more →
Today’s forecast. Mostly sunny, high in the 80s with a chance of icebergs. Kid on iceberg Monday at Madeline Island harbor. Not sure how he got there but boat picked him up pic.twitter.com/hHjxVfjr1U — Andrew Krueger (@akpix) May 27, 2014
It was the Great Depression and your family needed you to go to work. So you dropped out of school. But you’ve always thought about going back to school or taking night classes to get the high school degree. Instead, you married, raised three children, divorced, then married again. When you were 93, a Council Read more →
For the first time, some unsuspecting people have had a ride in Google’s new driverless car. They liked it.
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Remember when it was Tornado Awareness Week and the weather experts said you should use to figure out where you would go in a tornado? Remember all the time growing up when authorities told you don’t use your vehicle for protection. Remember when they said don’t try to outrun a tornado? Read more →
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