Distasteful or not? AT&T has apologized for posting this picture on Twitter and Facebook today: “We apologize to anyone who felt our post was in poor taste. The image was solely meant to pay respect to those affected by the 9/11 tragedy,” the company wrote. But the Ad Freak blog notes that AT&T posted a Read more →
Fans don’t have any responsibility to support a bad team any more than a car buyer has an obligation to buy a lousy car, but criticism of Minnesota fans is unwarranted. Read more →
A Catholic school teacher acknowledges she’s gay and loses her job. Read more →
The day terrorists hit a lucky shot, with this ring she brought jobs to Minnesota, the failure of the railroad vision, the Star Tribune Bachmann editorial, and the people who wash windows. Read more →
About three dozen people in Duluth are being tossed out of work because the rest of us aren’t drinking enough milk. Kemps announced today it’s closing its Franklin Foods milk processing plant in the city next month. It’s not Obamacare. It’s not state taxes. It’s not the cows. It’s not, apparently, any of the things Read more →
What does Arctic ice tell us, shopping Moorhead and Moorhead only, trading your adopted child, teaching our kids to be criminals, and ballooning the St. Croix Valley. Read more →
Rep. Walz says ‘no’ to bombing Syria, George Zimmerman can’t stay out of the news, the disaster special session ends in Minnesota, the State Police defends the high-speed chase that killed an innocent person, a woman in a hijab violates Abercrombie’s “look policy,” which violates the law, and Diana Nyad answers skeptics. Here’s today’s news Read more →
If you’re a woman under 50 wondering whether you should get a mammogram, you are basically on your own. Read more →
An Asian cast member of the local production of “Miss Saigon” is stepping in to defend the production against allegations it’s a racist play. Read more →
I met Siji Saula and his wife in Fargo earlier this summer, and had the opportunity to meet David Saula in Lagos last week. Their ongoing bond is a good example of how leaving your home to start a new life — halfway across the world in this case — can change important relationships. It’s an even better example, though, of how those relationships remain strong. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today rejected an attempt to stop the state’s sale of mining leases without any environmental review. Read more →
The search for common ground in the mining debate, the smartphone addiction, why Sioux Falls has won James Fallows’ heart, struggles of mainline churches, and yeah, you’re gay, now how about cleaning your room? Read more →
The key to lifting the rural poor in countries like Nigeria may well be agriculture. Read more →
Before this city became what it is today — a monstrous destination that’s probably more than twice as large as New York City (depending on which survey you believe) — a neighborhood between the mainland and the posh Victoria Island started spreading into the sea. That was more than 100 years ago.
Now, at least 85,000 Lagosians live in Makoko. They still do what their ancestors came for: the fishing. But the state is trying to evict the area, citing health concerns among other reasons. Read more →
A fairly surprising percentage of the best and the brightest got where they are by cheating.
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