Tag: life
group name: intheloop
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July 04, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
It's typical... it's cliche... and I love it.
Family on the Fourth.
Hey, if you want edgy... go read something else.
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July 03, 2008 10:13 PM EDT --
It was a gift... unexpected... and unaware you needed it until it was there.
The best kind of gift.
Lunchtime in downtown StP. The tension of a work morning at a terminal . . .
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July 08, 2008 10:42 PM EDT --
I swore off the whole damn thing not a week ago. I vowed that I would shun for the rest of the baseball season a team that I had long rooted for - the New York Mets.
"resolute" . . .
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January 19, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
President Bush and our Washington leaders are setting down a plan to "stimulate the economy." Perhaps it's more like that moment when the ship with a leak starts listing and you grab the . . .
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June 30, 2008 10:29 PM EDT --
Tell me if you uber-amateur musicians have this experience.
I pick up the old axe (well, it's a cheap Fender acoustic so maybe axe isn't the right word)... maybe pocket knife.
. . .
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January 18, 2008 04:18 PM EST --
Porky's Drive-In
1890 University Ave W
Saint Paul, MN 55104
(651) 644-1790
I have an Achilles heel for hamburgers. When . . .
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June 26, 2008 12:22 AM EDT --
Sometimes it's the messenger. Sometimes, the message.
But here might be one of the rare times when it's the company messages keep. A sign touting cheap divorces next . . .
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June 23, 2008 10:55 PM EDT --
The girl at three and a half refuses to see limits. Parents try to set deadlines for eating, bathing, sleeping.
They warn her how the brick she's holding in her small . . .
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June 25, 2008 06:31 PM EDT --
The conventional story when it comes to gas prices and the vacation season goes like this:
1) The vacationer decides to curtail their plans.
2) The resort/hospitality person frets about reduced . . .
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January 23, 2008 11:07 AM EST --
Housing prices in the Twin Cities have fallen for the first time in 20 years ... the subprime problems don't seem to be abating.
So what's your housing plan for 2008? Are you going to refinance? . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:00 PM EST --
So it seems clear that most leaders in Minnesota want transportation improved. But the agreement stalls out soon after. Should we tax? Should we borrow?
Maybe, however, the question . . .
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June 26, 2008 10:22 PM EDT --
Mr. Lucky's signs (written about in my last post ) got me to thinking ...
Just what signs have you seen that stand out... that make you wonder... that say something more about who we are?
American . . .
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July 07, 2008 05:51 PM EDT --
My fellow Minnesota Gatherers:
In a few weeks you will see the press in MN (and outside too) looking at the I-35W bridge collapse and its affects on people.
There's nothing wrong with the . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:38 AM EST --
I love when news and dialogue converge. And so it does on MPR's website - in this case it's a map where people who are part of our Public Insight Network are weighing in on a "political think" . . .
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September 11, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
What happens when you ask Minnesotans to weigh in on an issue like the reopening of the I-35W Bridge? You get some pretty good stories.
For a few years now, Minnesota Public Radio news has . . .
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January 28, 2008 05:58 PM EST --
My dad used to tell me that the voting booth was a place to put up or shut up. He was mostly right. You have to cast a ballot to have a complaint.
But that's only part of the duty, really. You . . .
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August 19, 2008 10:54 AM EDT --
A colleague of mine said the other day that she tells her significant other to slow down when he's driving. The reason: To avoid an expensive speeding ticket.
Now sure, from time to time we are . . .
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July 02, 2008 10:37 AM EDT --
There are millions of undocumented workers in this country who came here for nothing more than an opportunity to work hard and find security for themselves and their families.
American companies . . .
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August 17, 2009 01:45 PM EDT --
When economic times are good, people tend to function on auto-pilot. Who needs deep introspection when salaries are rising and profits are rolling in?
But hard economic times can force people to re-engage, . . .
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July 01, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
My Fellow Americans,
We are all so played against each other by sophisticated political machinery. "Divide and Conquer" still appears to be working, and it richly rewards those who operate . . .
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