Bob CollinsThere are times when one has to step back and be thankful that one is at the top of the food chain. Nature is cruel to everyone else, as photographer Dan Nystedt found when he was out filming the pretty part. Read more →
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The Weinstein story will pass. People will move on to new ways to have an old debate. The workplace for women will still be a horror show. Read more →
A divided Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a waiter’s court victory over the restaurant owner who fired him because he wouldn’t share his tips with bussers. Read more →
The drone video of Santa Rosa, Cal., the town wiped out by wildfires this week, includes this bit of absurdity: the mail is still being delivered. Read more →
For 11 years, a digital camera sat at the bottom of Lake Superior until Two Harbors photographer Christian Dalbec found it when he was diving a couple of months ago.
What are the odds Dalbec could find the owner? Read more →
It’s America’s least-favorite holiday, created by those who favor myth as history. Columbus Day.
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Mark Mooney has made his last post to his blog ‘Closing in on -30-‘ Read more →
Karl Dorfner, of West Allis, Wis., was trying to be a good father when he showed up at his son’s child support hearing. That’s something more than his son, also named Karl, has going for him, apparently. Read more →
City Pages today has the story behind this photo, posted to Twitter last week, of a man hitting the hottest new club in the Twin Cities: an empty I-35W. Read more →
Louie Spray, of Rice Lake, Wis., once owned the Wisconsin musky record — three times. His picture disappeared from a Milwaukee diner where it had occupied a place of honor over a urinal. Read more →
Once again the liberal media elite take cheap shots at a president who has the good sense to blame the victims of a hurricane for losing everything they had in a hurricane.
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A clown showed up to vote in a primary election Boston on Tuesday. So people called the cops. Read more →
A good obituary not only reveals the person who has died, it also provides a regional history lesson.
That’s the case today with the obituary of Harriet Lazaroff, which appears in today’s Star Tribune. Read more →
Sewage lift stations make lousy neighbors. Just ask Robert and Deb Landwehr of Sartell, Minn., whose home along the Sauk River isn’t the idyllic spot the view might suggest. Read more →
At age 27 and 28, Angela and Andy McLaughin quit their jobs, sold their possessions, and hit the road. Read more →