The mayors called Democratic nominee Joe Biden “out of touch” in an open letter timed to coincide with Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Duluth on Friday. “Today, we don’t recognize the Democratic Party,” the mayors wrote. “It has been moved so far to the left it can no longer claim to be advocates of …
According to the Duluth News Tribune, the U.S. Forest Service, a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer, and the Lake County Sheriff’s department responded to reports of a drunken naked lady hanging out just northeast of Ely. They boated into the lake and found her around 6 p.m. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office didn’t …
This would be a gut punch even in ordinary circumstances, but since these same workers had informed management of their intentions to unionize barely 48 hours prior, organizer Sheigh Freeberg of Unite Here Local 17 interprets the large-scale layoff as malevolent. “Surly sent out a WARN notice letting employees know they will be laid off …
He’s had relationships with other women but always swore it was just online. Then, a few years back, I got into an online relationship with someone online. I never actually met this person, just as my husband claimed he’d never met the women he was talking to online. I had opened up to this person …
And now, in these times of mass COVID-19 casualties, Cousins is again demonstrating he does not fear the crypt. In a just-released interview on Kyle Brandt’s 10 Questions podcast, the 32-year-old QB was asked about what happens if someone sneezes in the huddle. Within the Vikings organization, Cousins said, there’s a spectrum of coronavirus concern — those …
Shapiro brought his act to the University of Minnesota back in 2018, and played to his (overwhelmingly white and male) audience’s victimhood. Because a couple dozen protesters showed up, Shapiro said, “There are a hundred police officers that were necessary to protect you guys and to protect me so that I can say conservative things.” …
In the unrest that followed Floyd’s death, Minneapolis and St. Paul sprung into action. There were food drives, clothing drives, diaper drives. GoFundMe pages went live in the morning and raised $10,000 or more by afternoon. “The self-perception of Minnesotans being very giving in times of crisis is a real thing,” the team behind the …
That said, there are a few wrong ways. And boy is this one of them. MPD is distributing challenge coins commemorating what they’ve hashtagged as #MplsRiot2020. pic.twitter.com/Ql9VV0wNJp — Wedge LIVE!™ (@WedgeLIVE) August 31, 2020 This commemorative coin features a photo of officers, the slogans “A family of one” and “MPD Strong,” as well as the …
Look closely and you’ll see that most of these books originated with university presses. But none are written for an exclusively academic audience—they’re either the work of journalists or critics, or of academics who’ve already written plenty for a broader readership. Sasha Geffen – Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary (University …
As a challenge, try to think back to a time when rumors about Minneapolis’s meat-and-bourbon establishment on the edge of downtown being dunzo weren’t swirling. Heck, there’s was even a baby-sprawl of a Reddit thread started six months ago with the purpose of speculating about how the place’s (erstwhile) appearance on the Minnesota’s tax delinquency lists might impact its operations… During its …