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3y ago
For the last 40-plus years we’ve been the Twin Cities’ alternative voice, covering music and arts and culture and also doing deeply reported features and investigative pieces. What else is there to say? We’re sad as fuck. CP, born Sweet Potato, has employed hundreds of people over the last four ..read more
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3y ago
On Monday, a wilderness explorer took to Reddit because they had a bit of a stumper on their hands. They'd seen this little furry tree-dwelling animal in late September at Bear Head Lake State Park, up in the northeastern corner of the state. It’s very cute – fluffy, almost foxy-looking, with a thick ..read more
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3y ago
I. The Omen Even in a “normal” year, the days just before a restaurant opens are among the most stressful. For Eric Foster, that was early and mid-March. He was readying to open East Side Bar, the reincarnation of the much-loved Ward 6 in St. Paul. After about a year of planning, they’d finally gotten ..read more
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3y ago
Minnesota has rules intended to mitigate the spread of coronavirus at large events and gatherings. That includes limiting the number of people that can come together at a single venue to 25 percent capacity, up to 250 people – indoors or outdoors. You wouldn’t know that watching the September 30 ..read more
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3y ago
Voting this year is stressful enough, without wondering if a bunch of armed ex-military types are going to be hanging around your polling place. Until last week, that seemed like a possibility for Minnesotans, thanks to Altas Aegis, a Tennessee-based security firm run by U.S. military veterans. A couple of ..read more
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3y ago
Jason Lewis was rushed to an emergency room for surgery on a "severe internal hernia" Monday morning, according to a statement from his campaign manager, which said the condition was "life-threatening if not treated quickly." Lewis, a former congressman and the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, woke with ..read more
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3y ago
The economic fallout from COVID-19 has devastated local government finances, and Hennepin County – responsible for the heavy-duty work of housing the homeless – is in a tight spot. As families suffer the strain of job loss and the indefinite closure of in-person school, the need for services is greater ..read more
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3y ago
Bogdan Vechirko, the man who drove his gas tanker into a crowd of more than a thousand protesters on a closed-down highway in Minneapolis, has been charged with two felonies. Video from the May 31 incident on I-35W showed Vechirko's truck barreling toward unsuspecting demonstrators, who scattered in panic ..read more
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3y ago
On Tuesday night, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) treated Twitch viewers to a stream of her playing the super-on-trend Mafia-style game Among Us. After a little finagling to overcome tech issues (including joining another game by mistake), another player joined the group: Minnesota’s own Rep ..read more
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3y ago
You'd think the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis might have more important things to worry about. Like, say, the temporarily idled move to defund/disband/radically reform the city police force. Or the fact that a bunch of cops have effectively walked off the job: through last week, a lawyer ..read more