I love Minnesota accents
from streets.mn by Alex Bauman
The nasal vowels, the multifunctional but monosyllabic ya’s and sure’s, the rs so deep they threaten to suck in the entire sentence… I love Minnesota accents.
BELIEFNET blows it. Feminism is NOT a dirty word
from Kristine Holmgren — The Drama Queen by Kristine Holmgren
Let me be clear: I’m a feminist playwright and proud of it. I’m also a Presbyterian pastor. I’ve built a successful career marrying these peculiar, male-defined vocations.
One family’s journey: Five years after the Cottonwood school bus crash
from Minnesota Prairie Roots by Audrey Kletscher Helbling
“The cupcake thing” didn’t end in February 2008, when Emilee, Hunter, Jesse and Reed, all students at Lakeview Public School in Cottonwood, died in the crash of their school bus and a mini van. Five years later, the tradition continues every February 19 (or the nearest date school is in session) at Lakeview. The cooks bake cupcakes and frost them in the students’ favorite colors—pink or purple for Emilee, red for Reed, green for Hunter and black for Jesse.
Letter from Liberia
from the Advocates Post by Amy Bergquist
Life can be a heavy load in post-conflict Liberia, a country torn apart by a 14-year civil war. What happened to a little girl, Olivia, evidences the toll of human rights abuses in that country, as reported to The Advocates’ “Team Liberia” while we were in Liberia in January conducting needs assessments with that country’s human rights organizations.
Early artist conception of the Minnesota Experimental City
from MN70s by Dave Kenney
On February 12, 1973, an obscure state agency called the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) Authority announced that it wanted to build a new city—with a population of a quarter of a million people—in northern Minnesota’s Aitkin County…
How to remove ice dams
from the Structure Tech Home Inspection Blog by Reuben Saltzman
With the recent snow storm we received in Minnesota and the crazy snow storm that dumped several feet of snow on the east coast, there will be plenty of people dealing with leaking roofs from ice dams. I have already blogged about how to prevent ice dams from happening, but I get far more inquiries about how to remove ice dams. There are plenty of ‘hack’ methods of removing ice dams, so I decided to discuss them. The methods I’m going to discuss involve an axe, ice pick, pantyhose, salt, heat cables, a pressure washer, and even a blowtorch… just for fun.
