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November 21, 2010 09:43 AM UTC
(featured date: November 24, 2010)
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Once upon a time in the late 1970’s I found a small independent bookstore at the corner of Franklin Avenue and 4th Avenue South in south Minneapolis called Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction . . .
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January 25, 2010 03:16 PM UTC
(featured date: January 25, 2010)
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Tens of thousands of Somalis escaped a brutal civil war, and now call Minnesota home. These are the stories of young Somalis confronting violence in their community, and struggling with the psychological . . .
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June 26, 2009 09:04 AM UTC
(featured date: June 26, 2009)
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Things we're reading this morning about our region's economy
Recession puts a heavy strain on low income families
Hiawatha light rail marks five years; what's next for transit? . . .
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June 06, 2009 05:35 PM UTC
(featured date: June 08, 2009)
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June 6 th , 2009
A chill rain pounds away at the pockmarked parking lot, explodes and drizzles down the plump hoods of new-issue SUVs and smaller, more energy-conscious imports. Strips of yellow-grass-greening . . .
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June 06, 2009 07:43 PM UTC
(featured date: June 08, 2009)
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On May 30th Janie and I had several community yard sales to choose from.
The suburb of Burnsville, Minnesota was having a huge and very tempting sale, with somewhere between 150 and 200 sales, . . .
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May 28, 2009 10:39 AM UTC
(featured date: May 28, 2009)
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MPR Midmorning discusses how we live in a digital space :
The wave of digitization is coming as compact discs are tossed out in exchange for iPods, and the Kindle promises to make books obsolete. Midmorning . . .
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May 21, 2009 11:40 AM UTC
(featured date: May 22, 2009)
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This week on Grammar Grater, we're looking at a tricky word that presents a confusing picture when . . .
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May 20, 2009 01:06 PM UTC
(featured date: May 22, 2009)
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Downtown Minneapolis. There it is, the very tall one in the middle.
It was built in the 80s as a Norwest Bank
It's all Italian marble. . . .
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May 20, 2009 12:20 PM UTC
(featured date: May 22, 2009)
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Wednesday May 20, 2009: Red River flood is finally over :
The National Weather Service says the Red River dropped below flood stage at 2:30 a.m. in Fargo-Moorhead after 61 days. The weather service . . .
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May 13, 2009 06:10 PM UTC
(featured date: May 15, 2009)
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This year's visit to the Johnsonville neighborhood yard sale yielded the first concrete evidence that the recession is driving shoppers into the secondhand merchandise market. . . .
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May 08, 2009 03:41 PM UTC
(featured date: May 09, 2009)
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Well, I reckon we'll need one place to share our successes, near-successes, and it-wasn't-funny-at-the-time stories from this fishing opener weekend.
What did you catch? What got away ? Did . . .
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May 07, 2009 12:33 PM UTC
(featured date: May 08, 2009)
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Have you secured your fishing license yet? Minnesota's 2009 recreational walleye, sauger, and northern pike fishing season opener kicks off on Saturday, May 9, but there are other seasons and treaty . . .
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May 07, 2009 12:31 PM UTC
(featured date: May 08, 2009)
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May 7, 2009, in Saint Cloud Minnesota and a few pictures for ya.
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March 23, 2009 08:57 AM UTC
(featured date: March 23, 2009)
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This is an open and ongoing discussion about the Red River flooding in Fargo-Moorhead. Updates may be posted here and in the comments.
Have you dealt with flooding (no matter where) whether as a resident . . .
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March 20, 2009 09:12 AM UTC
(featured date: March 23, 2009)
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Portrait of Countess Yu. P. Samoilova and Her Ward Amacilia Pacini Leaving a Ball. Not later than 1842. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St-Petersburg, Russia.
Countess Yulia Samoilova (née Palen, . . .
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March 19, 2009 02:58 PM UTC
(featured date: March 23, 2009)
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Today on Grammar Grater, we'll be talking about a tricky thing verbs do: they can become gerunds . . .
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March 18, 2009 07:46 PM UTC
(featured date: March 23, 2009)
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Spring Thaw (03/18/09)
We're well into our Spring thaw, snowmelt trickling, rather than tumbling down the concrete gutters of our suburban street. Rain is predicted over the weekend, . . .
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March 12, 2009 01:48 PM UTC
(featured date: March 12, 2009)
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Okay, money doesn't buy happiness. And accumulating stuff shouldn't make us whole.
But there are some possessions that have value greater than the pricetag. And yet, in a recession, when the . . .
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March 09, 2009 03:53 PM UTC
(featured date: March 09, 2009)
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The former vaudeville & movie house Fitzgerald Theater became the place to be this past Saturday night as a Minnesota Public Radio Family Movie Party was held to appreciate the tremendous . . .
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February 28, 2009 10:53 AM UTC
(featured date: March 02, 2009)
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On Wednesday evening, I attended a reading for Elissa Elliott's new book, Eve: A Novel of the First Woman at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis . As with many author readings, . . .
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