A Planet Money story is a nice tale, indeed, with the appropriate recognition of the state that lies just west of Wisconsin, but we remain troubled by the 2013 warning from Mother Jones that the very ‘miracle’ that the Honeycrisp and SweeTango provided, threatens the biodiversity and future of apples varieties. Read more →
There’s not much anyone can really say about a short story in the Pioneer Press today other than, ‘what’s your story?’ Read more →
Eleven years after a history professor asked that the statue be removed, Winona State University has done so, moving it to an indoor location. Read more →
The Vietnam War hasn’t ended. Just ask Lan Thi Kim Do, of Rochester, Minn., who only met her father for the first time on Wednesday when Wayne Brown, 72, of Los Angeles arrived at the airport in Rochester.
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We have reached the stage of the Minnesota Legislature’s annual session when it is forced to cram its work into the last few days, creating the illusion that it is working. It’s not. Read more →
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As sure as the sun will rise in the morning, there will be debates over appropriate prom attire in the spring in the nation’s high schools. Until this week, it’s been a pretty quiet prom season on the prom dress front.
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When Tyler Johnson was told by a police officer in North Branch in November 2015 that he could be charged with a more serious felony if he did not agree to urine or blood testing because of a suspicion that he was driving under the influence, he was getting bad information. Read more →
Given the hate they’re still getting online, Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson could be forgiven if they’d sued everyone involved in their ouster from a Philadelphia Starbucks. Read more →
Jerry Huffman leaves Friday for the Czech Republic, where he’ll meet the woman who posed with his dad on the day the war’s fighting ended. Read more →
St. Cloud’s lesson to Rust Belt cities? Don’t be a city in the Rust Belt. Read more →
A little warmer temperature, some gusty winds and voila! We get one of the most entertaining weather events of the year: the march of the lake ice. Read more →
There haven’t been many cases of school music programs surviving cutbacks, despite the pleas from parents and educators that there’s learning value in the arts.
But the music program in Laporte, Minn., will play on. Read more →
The price of gasoline is heading back to economic reality and we’re about to see the effect of Americans’ appetite for not learning lessons about trucks and SUVs. They’re really expensive to drive when the price of gasoline lives in economic reality.
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