Minnesota news items from the past year give one pause when one considers that the natives have long prided themselves on being 'Minnesota Nice'. Minnesota is supposed to be a place where the whole state is just like the fictional Lake Woebegone of National Public Radio fame.
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Is progress on the horizon?
A majority of Minnesotans surveyed in a new poll apparently aren't interested in seeing Gov. Tim Pawlenty become President Tim Pawlenty three years from now.
As a result of Minnesota's continuing failure of will in dealing with its budget deficit, the General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program has been eliminated.
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A "dead fairy", a "mutant cucumber", or a pint of sun-dried bees are some of the weirdest items currently for sale on auction site eBay. You are forced to wonder why anybody would actually want to buy some of this stuff.
Craigslist, the anarchic classifieds website, has developed a reputation for hosting some of the oddest adverts on the internet
Contrary to the view that the tale originated in France shortly before Charles Perrault produced the first written version in the 17th century, Dr Tehrani found that the variants shared a common ancestor dating back more than 2,600 years.
The U.S. Secret Service made arrests last Wednesday, Sept. 2, in a case that combined elements of international fraud, credit card data, luxury auto exports, and counterfeit credit cards.
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Walking around St. Paul this summer, it's hard to imagine that almost a year ago the city was filled with tear gas smoke, miles of security fences, cops dressed in riot gear, and tens of thousands of protesters during the Republican National Convention.
The son was certain that his father would not shoot himself while they were deer hunting together, leaving him to discover the body. No, that did not seem like something his dad would do.
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