Other than 9/11, I can’t recall a sadder day in the Twin Cities than the one that happened 19 years ago today. Police received a call around 7 a.m. that a man was sleeping in a car in the parking lot of Sacred Heart Church at E. Sixth and Hope Streets. Ron Ryan, a 29-year-old Read more →
Being mentally ill will not get you a break under the mandatory five-year prison term for illegally possessing a firearm. Read more →
Interviewer Dick Gordon is calling it quits as host of American Public Media’s The Story. Read more →
People don’t really love their dogs more than humanity, it’s not the heat; it’s the fire, the FAA grounds journalists, when Hollywood is real, and why are there shoes on power lines? Read more →
Linda Ronstadt has revealed that she can no longer sing a note; she has Parkinson’s. She ushered in a pretty fair era in music in the late ’60s and early’70s, along with James Taylor, Carole King, and the Eagles: folk rock. She was the decade’s highest-paid female singer and it wasn’t because of the high-glitz Read more →
Honored guests surprised MPR’s Cathy Wurzer at the State Fair. Read more →
Not much news but lots of good at the State Fair. Read more →
Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association and one of the great American tinkerers, died Thursday. Read more →
The well-heeled neighborhoods of Saint Paul lead in recycling; the working-class neighborhoods are at the bottom of the heap Read more →
Wired.com has noticed that Best Buy’s stock has tripled so far in 2013, suggesting that it’s back from its near-death experience. Read more →
Workers too loyal? Nursing home tasers and the young face of a civil war. Read more →
The Woodbury rain gardens are a success, sort of. Read more →
In some old vinyl, a bit of family history is discovered. Read more →
The ‘user fee’ to get an education, predicting suicide, Indian foster care controversy in South Dakota expands, a Shaina Briscoe update, and Ben Garvin’s magic beard. Read more →
Unless something changes, 2013 in the Twin Cities may be the summer when people and politicians gave up and ceded their neighborhoods to the gangs. Just last week, for example, a beating on the East Side of Saint Paul led its residents to beg for officials to do something — anything, really. Nobody seems to Read more →
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