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According to a sign at the Olive Garden, you have to have a driver’s license to enter the restaurant. It refers to a city ordinance that doesn’t exist. Read more →
Perhaps in years past a couple of guys who didn’t think women belonged in the pulpit of a church would be a minor nuisance, but one can hardly blame the parishioners of a Dickinson, N.D., church for quickly throwing them out. Read more →
Judging by the tweets from Papa John’s Pizza, a lot of people boycotted the company after its CEO took exception to the NFL players protest for racial equity. Read more →
There’s limited information in this Facebook post from the Hopkinton, Mass., Police Department. But we want to know so much more about the scofflaw that thought he — it’s got to be a he — could get away with a license plate made from a pizza box and a Sharpie marker.
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‘I want to tell you about my grandmother Charlotte, or as her friends called her, Chuck. Chuck was an Army nurse during World War II. She was trained in physical therapy and stationed in Belgium until the end of the war. ‘ Read more →
‘In a rural area outside of Arcadia, Florida, my partner and I ended up on a winding country road with a flat tire on the rental car we were driving. We pulled on to the shoulder (such as it was) and got out of the car. My partner, Bob, got the jack and spare out of the trunk and I started to call the Red Cross transportation coordinator volunteer to let him know what had happened.’
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Without someone to give a rip, this buck, stuck in the Gull River would be a goner.
That’s where Eric Sullivan, a DNR conservation officer, comes in. Read more →
‘It doesn’t take much more than kindness and a little music to turn disappointment into an unexpected gift. That’s what a group of young men did for two little boys and their mother on Thursday at the State Capitol.’
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‘My dad had been going through cancer treatment since March (thank you tobacco industry, agent orange and asbestos). Usually, on a lovely spring, summer or fall day you could find him sitting outside my parents’ garage watching the traffic, yelling at speeders or waving at friends, especially the local ambulance crew. ‘
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My grandmother, Margaret Terry Trowbridge, was 82 when I moved from Alabama to Minneapolis in February 2000 to join the mighty Minnesota Orchestra. A native Minnesotan and lifelong fan of classical music, she could not have been more proud for one of her grandkids to be joining the ranks at Orchestra Hall. I was pretty darn proud, myself, and couldn’t wait to welcome my grandma in person at one of the Thursday morning concerts she’d been attending for years.
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The theme for Friday’s Theft of the Blog: Tell me a story of decency. Preferably it’ll be about someone you know, but at this point, we’ll settle for decency where we can find it. Read more →
In the aftermath of the attack on Sen. Rand Paul, allegedly in some sort of dispute over landscaping between neighbors in their gated community, we have no choice but to give the benefit of the doubt to unnamed political analysts who see a more sinister situation. A war of leaf blowers. Read more →
There was probably no chance at all that former President Barack Obama was going to be selected for a jury when he showed up for jury duty in Chicago today. Read more →
Once again, the video also shows that when people first arrive at the accident scene, their instinct was to take a video and sell it to TMZ. Read more →