Bob Collins
Judging by the track of the final flight of Delta’s passenger 747s into Minneapolis St. Paul on Wednesday afternoon, it must have been a breathtaking moment to witness. Read more →
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The Christmas snobs are needle-shaming a poor tree in Rome. Read more →
Here’s a photograph that probably wouldn’t have been possible just a few decades ago. A cougar out for a midnight stroll on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. Read more →
The last regularly scheduled Delta 747 passenger flight made its final stop in Detroit this morning and, as will be the case tomorrow when a 747 lands in Minneapolis, fans showed up for the goodbye. Read more →
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety tweeted a video today in support of a campaign to discourage texting while driving. Read more →
It’s hard to say exactly whether Julie Centeno and her fiance, Curtis Wilson, had a good night or a bad night Sunday night.
When fire broke out in their suburban Boston home, they had time to get out with just what they were wearing. Bad. Read more →
There’s no real significance to the list, of course. Traffic is enhanced or depressed by any number of factors, mostly involving who picks up and amplifies a post. This year was no exception. Read more →
Because there isn’t a dog story that can’t provide a human pick-me-up when we could use one, that’s why.
So, here’s to Piper of Traverse City, Mich. Read more →
Caribou are disappearing from Lake Superior islands. Let nature run its course? Or intervene? Read more →
Keaton Jones called his mother to pick him up at school the other day. He was afraid to go to lunch where, he says, kids poured milk on him, threw bread at him, and put ham down his shirt. Read more →
You know humans have a bottomless supply of love and compassion when they stoop to help a rock.
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2017 has been the year of big mouths, bluster and blathering Tweets. Time’s choice is perfect because it focuses on forced silence that is ending because two small, nearly whispered words on the social media of choice: Me too.
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Here’s your moment of Minnesota Zen. Read more →
Tyler Ketz won $6,000 playing the slots recently. His first child was also born. So Tyler was feeling good about life and wanted to spread it around a bit. Read more →
The next time someone wants to know what it means to be Minnesotan, you may refer them to this tweet from the West St. Paul Police Department. Read more →