Bob CollinsThe worldwide flow of information did not jump measurably after the verdict, although it appears to have dropped slightly during it.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The winners and losers in the Minnesota government shutdown were on display in downtown Saint Paul today.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign is out with a new commercial, scrapping the speeches and glitz of previous commecials and stressing Pawlenty’s role in Minnesota’s 2005 shutdown.
Lies, damn lies, and political statistics
Musical interpretations of the shutdown, when people do good, what’s it like to be fireworks, the death of the serial comma, and the Milky Way from South Dakota.
The Ox Lake parade
There’s a guy in the middle of this “flash mob” in a grocery store on Cape Cod this weekend who keeps shopping, even as a marching band breaks out around him.
How a state worker spends the shutdown, blind carpenter honored, the helmet law reconsidered, how to dishonor the flag, and we the purple.
The most surprising aspect of Chris Lapakko’s one-man protest on the lawn of the state Capitol is that it’s a one-man protest.
The story is fast becoming the teams that haven’t joined the campaign as much as it is the teams that have.
A new state symbol?
It’s not the heat…