The campaigns to get people to stop watching their cellphones while they drive often seem like shoveling sand against the tide; nothing seems to be working to convince people there’s danger in it. So AT&T, Verizon, Spring, and T-Mobile commissioned Werner Herzog, the German filmmaker, to produce a documentary, featuring four tragedies: A paralyzed young Read more →
A close encounter with a police license plate scanner. Read more →
Raise your hand if you’ve ever read a software license, credit card, or bank “agreement.” I didn’t think so. Read more →
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The questions surrounding the Wilfs, it’s time for journalists to change how they tell stories, the brew farm, rapping scientists, the people who don’t give up, and not all heartless crooks are heartless. Read more →
Two soldiers who were shot testify in the Fort Hood trial, the Wilfs say don’t worry about that civil racketeering thing, meet the Powerball winner, the flooding in the midsection, the last King Family survivor dies, and the fungus of northern Michigan.
Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current. Read more →
Municipal courses looked great in the 1990s. Now, not so much. Read more →
Anoka is trending this afternoon on Twitter after a Ham Lake man won a piece of the Powerball jackpot. Apparently, plenty of people on Twitter are happy for Paul White, because it gave them a chance to dump on an entire county. The winning MN Power Ball ticket was sold in Anoka County. A Frank Read more →
There’s a reality in debates over public financing of sports stadiums that rarely gets acknowledged: You never really stop paying for them. Read more →
Wisconsin government declares, “Disperse ye Singers!” Read more →
The disappearing first-person history, bull run in Dakota County, when the carnies don’t show, when airline passengers disobey the rules, and sportswriters with short memories. Read more →
It’s like old times between Russia and the U.S., why are politicians in Wisconsin so afraid of people who sing, what is H7N9 and why does it have Minnesota health officials concerned, a power outage update from last night’s storm, who’s the person in Mankato stopped for doing 148, and do you have Powerball fatigue? Read more →
NPR had the story this morning of Amazon.com getting into the fine art selling business: … [San Francisco art gallery manager Danny] Sanchez was eager to partner with Amazon. “They redefined online shopping and I think they have the ability to do that for this new kind of marketplace for art,” he says. The audience Read more →
How the Vikings owner got out of a bad deal, Aaron’s last wish in Fargo, supporting the homeless troops at Fort Snelling, the Titanic violin debate, and quitting jobs to go do what you want to do instead. Read more →
Case “sort of” closed in the killing of Officer Decker, the latest on the Mideast terrorism panic, more proof of climate change, the python incident in Canada, and the man who escaped a falling coffin. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current:
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