I probably posted this back when the state NPR affiliate aired it but pretty cool to see it go national.
Category Archives: Geography
Do you know the story behind one of Las Vegas’ most popular restaurants?
Some backstory of Lindo Michoacan, which I was so happy to get to stop and have dinner at a couple months ago when I was in town.
Texas towns try to close roads to abortion-seekers
Oh look, illegal internal checkpoints to restrict freedom of movement by women.
Republicans do not believe in democracy and freedom, and have not for at least as long as I have been alive.
Also, seriously, you want folks that purposely look like this to tell you where and how you can travel?

The J.W. Westcott Co. – the only floating ZIP Code in the U.S. – celebrates 150 years in Detroit

This is wild. I did not know we had a ZIP code that moves around.
I mean, Florida is probably gonna be like Waterworld in a few years but this at least is a template.
‘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.
WHY IS THE WORLD’S FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR BURIED IN A FOREST PRESERVE?
Folks are still finding out that in the rush to make a nuclear bomb, we basically just had a nuclear pile in the middle of Chicago that wasn’t entirely stable all the time.
Anyway, the remains of that are still in the area.
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.
