Parking revenue at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport is down and the Metropolitan Airports Commission is trying to lure people back to its cement jungle. Who could see that coming? Anyone who has tried to park at MSP in the last year or so. Read more →
In Russia, nothing sells burgers like a promotion offering free Whoppers to women who agree to get impregnated by soccer players in the World Cup.
Burger King has now apologized for the promotion. Read more →
Over 100 women pilots will prove today they haven’t forgotten their routes or their roots. They’re taking off at 8 a.m. in Sweetwater, Texas, in the 2018 Air Race classic. By nightfall, perhaps, they’ll make Faribault, Minn., enroute to the finish line in Fryeburg, Maine. Read more →
St. Paul police today are starting the “enforcement period” in another crackdown on drivers who don’t stop for pedestrians in crosswalks, a crackdown that is annually necessary because the crackdown is an annual event. Read more →
The ubiquitous Nice Ride bikes are disappearing in Rochester. Read more →
“Please welcome your new American citizens.”
Great idea. We should have a picnic and a parade. Read more →
The family of Adam Fournelle, who died two years ago, is pretty upset that his belongings, including a hockey stick and fishing rod, have been thrown away by the Cottage Grove cemetery. Read more →
It’s not that “George” doesn’t like the news he gets from the Star Tribune. It’s his inability to articulate why. Read more →
You know what can get you out of a ticket if crying doesn’t work? Being the person who delivered the cop into the world. Read more →
It’s good for Kaitlyn Strom that on the day a picture circulated of her with her head stuck in a tailpipe of a pickup truck, the world’s attention was diverted by a raccoon doing raccoon things. Read more →
Relax, not that raccoon. Read more →
We are of the opinion that Whiskey would’ve gone back inside a Spring Lake Park home the minute Whiskey wanted to, but props to the Spring Lake – Blaine – Mounds View Fire Department anyway. Read more →
The people of Altoona, Wis., near Eau Claire, have about had it with the challenge of parking in the city. Read more →
Color me skeptical about the latest poll purporting to show that journalists aren’t doing a good enough job of explaining how journalism works. Read more →
We are choosing to take some comfort in the knowledge that no matter what fresh hell awaits us in the news this week, we are still a people who will gather in the pouring rain, to watch a dog chase sheep from one end of the field to another, dispelling the notion that we return to work today to work like a dog. Read more →
Bob Collins