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Why stay? For the love of teaching

By Erica Marston , Minnesota Women's Press

Fifty percent of U.S. urban public school teachers leave the profession within their first five years of teaching. Why do they leave-and why do they stay? MORE »

The roar of silence

By John Van Hecke , Minnesota 2020

Some farmers see a tractor as they are. Others see tractors as they wish them to be. In the blue, brackish diesel exhaust of a 1970s-era row crop Hefty-G, Laura Frerichs and Adam Cullip heard silence and made it so. MORE »

Operating Engineers accuse Sauk Rapids aggregate producer of union busting

By Michael Moore , Workday Minnesota

The National Labor Relations Board is investigating charges that MDU Knife River, a construction materials and mining company with facilities in Sauk Rapids, illegally discriminated against union members. MORE »

Minnesota's Economy: "Y'all be Careful Out There, Y'hear!"

By Lee Egerstrom , Minnesota 2020

Back a couple of decades an American president thought it was either good politics or a novel way to deregulate the airline industry and started firing air traffic controllers. Legend has it that an overworked controller at Atlanta’s busy airport couldn’t handle the stress and walked off the job. His last message to the circling pilots was:

“Y’all be careful up there, y’hear!” MORE »

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Things People Say

Readers sound off on disco, the Unabomber, and Santa Christ

By Jay Gabler , TC Daily Planet

“If there was any deep division in the music scene in 1977, it wasn’t people scratching their heads at less than stellar releases from Kansas, Foreigner, Styx, or Steely Dan and Neil Young, it was the demise of live music as disco came to prominence. I could make the argument that Kansas, Nugent and other arena acts GAINED fans because people who hated disco REALLY hated disco (myself included).”
-comment on “Sucking in ’77”

“John Jansen’s comments made me think of some of the bad things white people have done. Timothy McVeigh! Terry Nichols! The Unabomber! Not to mention almost all the serial killers in the U.S.! And all those Arab terrorists — they’re Caucasian! I just don’t think we can afford to have white people running this country. They are way too dangerous.”
-comment on “The Battle for Pine County”

“I really used to be amazed how these individuals could be so blatant about who they really are, and yet have their assemblies still pour money into their pockets so they can live like movie stars…and then you have those who are of the new faith: CASHIANS and followers of Santa Christ.”
-comment on “Mac Hammond’s Living Word facing IRS investigation” MORE »