Why is there a red flag on mailboxes? These days, it’s to alert thieves that there’s something to steal. Unable to get to the post office, the other day I shoved a bill and a Netflix disk into my suburban mailbox and raised the flag to alert the mail carrier that there was outgoing mail. Read more →
The timing of the NBA trade deadline and the Kevin Love rumors couldn’t be worse for the Timberwolves. Read more →
Public broadcasting’s funding mechanism is, perhaps, the most grassroots of media funding. But it is a fine line that stations walk when it comes to grants. Read more →
Decisions facing parents of African American students, breaking the stereotype of hunger, Kiev is burning, the man who wouldn’t kiss his sister, and frozen Superiority. Read more →
It’s Girl Scout cookie time but the kids aren’t selling anything. Mom and Dad are. Read more →
The people who make money in the housing industry are inflating expectations. Again. Read more →
A heart problem probably is responsible for a plane crash near Mankato, Minn., last spring that killed a pilot, the National Transportation Safety Board has revealed. Read more →
As secretly shameless as the BMW connection is, NBC’s coverage of “the moms” has been an out-in-the-open payoff. Read more →
Today’s temperatures are a stark reminder that spring is coming and there’s nothing you can do to hold onto winter, try as you might.
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A picture is worth a thousand words and sometimes 999 of the words are wrong. This tweet raced across the Internet this week. It showed a boy “all alone” in the desert, fleeing the violence of Syria. It was based on a picture distributed by a U.N. agency. Here 4 year old Marwan, who was Read more →
Rounding up the innocent to catch the guilty, the winter of our discontent, what’s in your credit card agreement, Kevin Grow goes to the NBA, and the luck and realities of the Twin Cities classrooms. Read more →
A lunch-line hero in Willmar, 45 facts about U.S. presidents, maybe we’re not really here, a droid’s eye view of the Metrodome dismantling, and the ice sculptures of Nisswa. Read more →
h/t: NBC The USA doesn’t have the market cornered on pushy, obnoxious sports parents. Norwegian Martin Johnsrud Sundby tried his best at Friday’s 15k classic in Sochi, NBC reports. But it wasn’t good enough. Given the opportunity to offer her progeny a little motherly comfort, his mother spit on the Olympic spirit instead. “You’re the Read more →
Oshie for president. Except he's like 15 years old. — Amanda Rykoff (@amandarykoff) February 15, 2014 Putin just ordered all out nuke strike on Warroad. — Blues & Baseball (@BluesnBaseball) February 15, 2014 The face that'll keep Putin awake tonight. pic.twitter.com/SpwEi5jBEt — BarstoolTrent (@BarstoolTrent) February 15, 2014 They'll re-ice now with Putin tears. — Seth Read more →
Valentine’s Day, ice dams, long winters and bad cats. It’s all part of 5X8. Read more →
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