It was opening day of Congress today and while the attention is on the new members, our favorite part about opening days — as we’ll see in a week in the Minnesota Legislature — are the kids of congresspeople who get to sit with their parents and see them one last time over the next two years.
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Our soft spot for Connolly comes primarily from this fact: he’s one of the world’s great storytellers. In 2011, he got on a trike and rode the old Route 66 across four fabulous episodes, stopping along the way, of course, to reveal that once you peel away the politics-fueled nonsense, we’re a pretty absurd people.
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Hustisford, Wis. starts each year with the toilet bowl, a chance for people to throw cheap rolls of toilet paper at each other. Read more →
China intends to establish a human base on the moon by late in the next decade, and to send a probe to Mars that can return to Earth.
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If you’ve spent any time online in the last day or so, you probably haven’t missed the bovine drama of athletic competition when the mascot of the University of Texas — a longhorn — ran roughshod over photographers who, for reasons not yet explained, were overly enthralled by a dog, in this case the mascot of the University of Georgia at the Sugar Bowl.
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If some Minnesotans are fleeing the state for whatever reason, it’s OK. There are people to replace them.
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The Angle, for those of you who’ve not studied maps of Minnesota, is a spit of land in Lake of the Woods County that is north of the line that generally defines the U.S. border and belongs to the United States. It is — other than Alaska — the only U.S. territory north of the 49th parallel — i.e. the border.
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Every new year should start off with the type of letter to the editor that Seng Vang got published in today’s Star Tribune. Read more →
Mitt Romney still wants to be president some day and if it comes to pass, he will be the first windsock ever elected to the office. Read more →
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Warren MacKenzie died Monday morning at 94 years old. There aren’t a lot of people who are both potter and hero. Read more →
Happy New Year! Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today reinstated criminal charges against a New Ulm man who fathered a child with a vulnerable adult.
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Bob Collins