Debris from a helicopter crash in Maplewood. @MPRnews pic.twitter.com/ci4GHlx24G
— Jeffrey Thompson (@jeffreythompson) June 19, 2013
MPR News: Rod Andrew Wilson lives nearby and said he heard the helicopter sputter.
“Me and my son were in the sun room with the windows open and we heard the helicopter have a little problem, and then we heard a whump and then a big whump and then a couple seconds after that a black cloud of smoke,” he said.
@duluthnews pic.twitter.com/1FhMHkvU
— Hęïdš (@HeidPack) June 20, 2012
In 2012 10″ of rain fell on saturated ground in Duluth and the surrounding communities. The forecast called for 2-4″ of rain. While a flash flood watch was issued, the scope of flooding and subsequent damage caught many by surprise.
Here is a look back at some of the best images that emerged during and after the flood. (more…)
Just got this email from Amazon. I don't think they're big fans of Gov. Dayton and #mnleg pic.twitter.com/ykvo1PCm7l
— Jonathan Blake (@blakeffm) June 18, 2013
No way to pick a mayor
About that #MplsDFL Convention: No Way to Pick Mayor http://t.co/9Wzkmauou7 @javimorillo assesses the situation #mnleg #stribpol #mplsmayor
— Sally Jo Sorensen (@sallyjos) June 18, 2013
Lake Street, now available in Brooklyn
Seemingly random: Minneapolis-themed bar named Lake Street to open in Brooklyn http://t.co/TXXTcIEIBu
— Vita.mn (@vita_mn) June 18, 2013
Booze pies?
Tipsy Pies — baked with local beer, whiskey and wine — keep entrepreneur going strong: http://t.co/yZsIG5Xw9d
— Pioneer Press (@PioneerPress) June 18, 2013
Homecoming
52 Minnesota National Guard soldiers will return home from Afghanistan today: http://t.co/xHCjwhkTVT
— KSTP (@KSTP) June 18, 2013
TQ – Turning point
Today's Question: Was the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan worth fighting? http://t.co/f5uvR2fHP3
— MPR News (@MPRnews) June 18, 2013
Via @nateryanphoto
A 47-year-old Utica man was killed Saturday night when he was accidentally struck by shrapnel during a bachelor/bachelorette party near Arendahl west of Rushford.
A plant thief is on the loose in Stillwater. She has gray hair, drives a white truck and likely has a VERY sore back: http://t.co/Zai2YMShvc
— Pioneer Press (@PioneerPress) June 17, 2013
Dan Deacon performs “Crystal Cat” in the Walker Art Center Garage as part of Rock the Garden 2013, as 89.3 the Current’s Steve Seel introduces.
Every year Randy Stender and his family spend Memorial Day weekend at Birch Lake Campground, a tradition that ties him to the wild, unspoiled lands here on the edge of the Iron Range where he grew up. There was a time, he says, when he and his wife would have moved back — if there had been a job like the one his father once had at Reserve Mining.
So when he heard that Birch Lake’s shoreline could become the site of one of the largest copper mines in the country, he immediately grasped the conflict gripping this charming tourist town and spreading across Minnesota.
Residents had quite the spectacle this weekend in Grand Marais as 14 planes lined the shores of the harbor for the 13th Annual Splash In. (more…)
The state’s only accelerant detection dog now calls Cloquet home. Wish, a lab and golden retriever mix, is the newest member of the Cloquet Area Fire District. She is an arson detection dog and is trained to sniff out accelerants. (more…)
Unequal rates of compensation could hurt MNsure rollout
Advocates for poor say MNsure's 2-tier enrollment system is unfair, deride "a caste system of compensation." http://t.co/FVmsqoUwGV
— MPR News (@MPRnews) June 17, 2013
Signs of sequester grow
In Hennepin County, the Head Start program will be forced to cut as many as 14 teachers and eliminate 90 classroom slots.
Sequester cuts hit home for Minnesotans — and more are coming | http://t.co/mpAeJQ61cm
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 17, 2013
Dear Jake, I’m Sorry – Kurt
Minnesota politician makes amends with Wisconsin brewery http://t.co/f9LRupCc0r
— Duluth News Tribune (@duluthnews) June 17, 2013
When the Minnesota House was debating whether to raise the state alcohol tax in April, Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, criticized claims that the tax increase would amount to only seven cents a beer.
“That’s like promising a case of Summit to the party and showing up with that bathwater called Leinenkugel’s,” Zellers said, referring to the Summit brewery in St. Paul. “It’s not a fair deal at all. Good Minnesota beer for Wisconsin bathwater, no sir.”
Drought to flood
After drought, upper Midwest now too soggy to farm http://t.co/lvvojIjbQ6
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 15, 2013
Time for immigration reform?
Today's Question: How should U.S. immigration laws change? http://t.co/q2LffCLJSx
— MPR News (@MPRnews) June 17, 2013
Family of the man accused of war crimes during World War II is speaking out about the allegations.
Surly Brewing Co. owner Omar Ansari serves beer to patrons before a tour at Surly Brewing Co. in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Ansari will be add pint glasses and a cash register to the tasting room as part of modest upgrades to turn the space into a taproom. (MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson)
Before Surly Brewing opens its $20 million “destination brewery” in the Prospect Park area of Minneapolis it will open a taproom in the brewery’s current Brooklyn Center location.
“We’re making very long-term decisions for the new brewery, and at first we thought it wouldn’t make much sense to put any effort into this place, but it’s taking just a little bit longer than we thought to set up the new operation,” taproom manager Linda Haug told the Star Tribune.
