Enjoy Twin Ports Variety Throughout August 

Thu. Aug. 13th, 2015  |  Sam Black

Music and theater are still blooming in Duluth as we move deeper into August.

Virgo

Thu. Aug. 13th, 2015  |  Lady  Ocalat

What is it with these Virgo people? They are compelled to heal the sick, save the sinful, and correct everyone’s spelling. You can’t run from them. They will give you torrents of unsolicited advice, acting like your 3rd grade teacher

Corporate Sociopaths Out of Minnesota!

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

Polluting Mining Corporations like PolyMet and Glencore Meet the Definition of Sociopath

Asylum

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015  |  Harry Drabik

I looked at my questioner and said, “You mean like that guy who looks like he came here intending to go on safari?” A “leopard” band around a bwana hat isn’t at all north woods.

Camp Shack Meteorological and Tectonic Administration on the job

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015  |  Forrest Johnson

Our latest skyward calculations have revealed the sun is rising higher into the sky every day. Here it is, the third week of August, a month before the fall equinox, and the giant gaseous orb located 93 million miles from us is radiating capable heat

Spirit Mountain: An Important Person’s viewpoint

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015

Spirit Mountain certainly has friends in high places. Two weeks ago, when the ski hill asked the city to give them another $300,000 so they could make payroll, former lieutenant governor Yvonne Prettner Solon sent a long letter to the Duluth

Have We Learned Anything?

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015  |  Loren Martell

The mainstream media had been in the boardroom all along of course, acting sort of like a baseball play-by-play guy blandly covering the sinking of the Titanic: “The ship seems to be listing a bit, Joe. I wonder if it’ll affect Johnston’s swing?”

US Bows Out After Plowshares Conviction Vacated: Appeals Court Ill-Informed on Nuclear Overkill

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015

The Appeals Court decision to vacate the sabotage convictions, and its hasty release of the Plowshares activists, could have been challenged by the Justice Department with an appeal to all 23 judges of the 6th Circuit -- but the government threw in t

Buffalo Bill and Death

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015  |  Ed Raymond

We still don’t know specifically why we age. Over 200 years ago humans were lucky to see 30. The philosopher Montaigne wrote this in the 16th Century: “To die of age is a rare

It’s time to free students from higher-ed debt

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015

Private, for-profit, corporate colleges are the biggest creators of this looming danger. To say there are lots of horror stories about them is like saying there are lots of ouchies in a bramble patch.