I am not completely addicted to the stuff, but some Top of the Tater does go really good on a baked spud.
Category Archives: Minnesota News
Almost All Ice Cream Truck Music Is Controlled By One Company
From the “Things You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know” Department

The Rochester Roosters are bringing back vintage ‘base ball’
I probably posted this back when the state NPR affiliate aired it but pretty cool to see it go national.
‘The Avengers’ and ‘Star Wars’ get Ojibwe and Lakota dubs from Indigenous language experts
This is an amazing project, even more so than it will be officially hosted by Disney. Plus, a local Minnesota connection to boot.
Louisiana court says mostly white enclave in Baton Rouge may secede and form its own city
White supremacy always exists to keep resources away from the folks who don’t fit their criteria. Indeed, if someone isn’t getting hurt by their actions, are they really even doing it right?
In what is now a prosperous suburb of Baton Rouge, the racists are proud of their new city, and are striving to separate themselves from the community school system. Separate and unequal.
But it isn’t just the South. Here in Minnesota, folks trying to build a BIPOC nature center and running into resistance from white neighbors worried about “noise” and disrupting their “way of life”. You know, because every nature center I have ever been too has been as insane as Burning Man, right?
Code words and outright blatant separatism when allowed.
Minneapolis library offers books, but also snacks, socks and a safe space to sleep
Up here in the Northwoods, our public servants actually try to serve the public.
Well, we do whenever we aren’t allowing state sanctioned executions.
Hinckley-Finlayson district wrong to bar Ojibwe song at graduation ceremony
So…you can likely invite a preacher to most school functions.
You can have the Pledge of Allegiance, which has included religious reference since the 1950s to start the school day or at most events. I mean, *I* don’t include it – I was raised right – but the indoctrination is in there for the past few generations.
But don’t you dare include a native ceremony into a graduating class celebration that is 1/3rd native.
Minnesota Historical Society will repatriate the ‘Mankato Hanging Rope’ to the Prairie Island Indian Community
Small steps in making things right around these parts. Symbols matter though.
Like it’s 1865: The Rochester Roosters are bringing back vintage ‘base ball’
Neat to see these guys get some coverage. We usually catch a game or two every year.
Rochester Public Library launches Convert-O-Lab to digitize older media
This is pretty great for us local folks. Now, if they only let you scan photos in bulk so you could digitize them….
