With the end of a month approaching, it’s “goodbye” time for workers who have taken buyouts at their companies which are trying to cut costs. At NPR, newscaster Jean Cochran gave her last newscast on Friday, the moment captured in this video. Newscaster Paul Brown also took the buyout as did Morning Edition editor Anne Read more →
Iowa woman’s wishes granted, two years after she died. Plus: sleeping outside for a year, how three men captured the first earthrise ever witnesses, the nipple artist, and fulfilling the Christmas wishes of soldiers’ kids. Read more →
Is there anything social networking can’t do? Since he took his own life, C.J. Twomey has sat in an urn in his home in Maine. His mother didn’t want him to remain there so she enlisted social networking sites to spread his ashes around the world. People volunteered to scatter the ashes, and his mother Read more →
Nate Yoho and Laura Brammeier of Des Moines didn’t have much time together after they met in late 2007. They were engaged three years later, just before Laura passed out at work. It was cancer in the brain. In May 2011 she had surgery at the Mayo Clinic. In August, they were married. The 28-year-olds Read more →
It’s possible today’s story about a woman who tried to get a tank of propane on an airplane isn’t as crazy as it first sounds.
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The huge backlog of veterans’ disability claims, one of the most shameful scandals of the last decade, is ebbing. Read more →
Many Americans, this week’s news stories confirm, don’t have a clue what the First Amendment says or what it means.
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Moving Saint Paul’s homeless, how public radio and TV cover news differently, a new hand for Harmony, Story Corps: the movie, and the day in Christmas videos. Read more →
The bus stop cookie lady has been shut down. Somebody blew the whistle on her. Read more →
Duck Dynasty “patriarch” Phil Robertson’s racial and social views don’t square with A&E. Read more →
Getting The Yard right, Nienstedt’s defense crumbles, giving birth like a virgin, what it’s like to try to use the MNsure site, and the Yule Log video’s director’s cut. Read more →
The new boss at MNsure acknowledges things have been ‘rocky,’ has there been a credit card security breach at Target, holiday sales haven’t been much to write home about, the Fed reduces support for the economy, and U.S. students are smoking more marijuana, but backing away from binge drinking.
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Your mid-day break from bad news should include the story of Scott Widak. Read more →
The toxic mix of politics and health care, is the Nienstedt controversy for Catholics only, baseball parks in winter, the rights of white supremacists vs. the rights of people to try to shut them up, and why aren’t kids interested in driving? Read more →
The archbishop steps aside, the legislative face of human services retires, the dawn of the intelligent snowplow, the pricetag for stockbrokers killed on 9/11, Gov. Walker hints he’ll sign the school mascots bill in Wisconsin, and the end of Harold Camping’s world. Read more →
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