Bob CollinsOne reason the Legacy Amendment is important: You can’t make money anymore being local. There aren’t enough local businesses left to fund it.
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Arts & Culture
It’s the sort of thing that could have put Park Rapids on the map, but the Planning Commission learned this week that artist and developer Arch Simonson has pulled the plug on the project, basically because people love gigantic loons so much they could get hit by a car.
Beer is a religion in these parts so maybe Del Hall, of the Cincinnati Halls, is onto something. Read more →
There’s not much a community can do with abandoned, concrete silos, the kind that dot Minneapolis’ Hiawatha Avenue and the Prospect Park area. Or is there?
Mankato has the right idea. An artist is going to treat them like the canvas they are and make art. Read more →
Dmitri Moua, 16, just wanted to dance but it took him making a federal case out of it to get him to try out for a girls competitive high school dance team in Roseville. There are no boys teams and the Minnesota State High School League dictates the rules and said “no” to Moua and Zachary Greenwald, a dancer in Hopkins. Read more →
There is, perhaps, a debate to be had on the matter of artistic expression and racist symbols in history, but it’s inarguable that if a school district puts on a play featuring students in KKK robes, it should see the backlash coming from miles away. A Sioux Falls school didn’t. Read more →
Jana Shortal, of KARE 11, is already a legend in these parts but she got a big boost on a national level today when the YouTube channel, Great Big Story, called attention to her style.
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More than a half million people sent photos of their babies in this year’s bid to be the Gerber baby.
Only one made it. Read more →
Jonah Larson, 11, of La Crosse, Wis., has all the orders he can handle now that the La Crosse Tribune made him an international star because of his love of crocheting. Read more →
We’re more than a little interested in whether the unnamed person in the Robbinsdale Cooper High School Class of ’71 ever amounted to anything now that she’s come forward with her overdue copy of Poetry and the Age. Read more →
Wiley Miller, who draws the comic, wasn’t shy about alerting readers the obscene message was there.
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Hold on tight, NPR is moving the furniture around, announcing it’s replacing its long-time musical theme on Morning Edition. How long-time? It’s been the same theme since the show debuted during the Carter administration.
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Not popular, perhaps, with the anti-Trump crowd, but we can see the point of the authorities with the National Snow Sculpting Championships in Lake Geneva, Wis., to ban Dusty Thune’s snow sculpture depicting Donald Trump. Read more →
Since December 2010, Larry Englund has been capturing the jazz scene in the Twin Cities, a genre generally ignored around here, on his blog, Rhythm and Grooves. Read more →
Where did North Dakota go to find a logo and slogan to capture its essence? Minnesota. Read more →