“While these truths may be self evident, they have never been self executing.”#inaug2013
— Emily Hinds (@gracie8884) January 21, 2013
Amazing to see President Obama be sworn in for his second term. Thanks to all who came out on this cold day! #Inaug2013 twitter.com/BettyMcCollum0…
— Betty McCollum (@BettyMcCollum04) January 21, 2013
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We’re starting a new project on MN Today where we want to feature the best things being made in Minnesota: food, drink, crafts, software, ideas — anything that Minnesotans can take credit for.
So tell us: what’s the best of “Minnesota Made” What do you make?
via PIN/MPR News.
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Largest oil producing states:
1. Texas
2. North Dakota
3. Alaska
What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, have flooded this region, drilling up to eight new wells every day on what is called the Bakken formation. Altogether, they are now producing 660,000 barrels a day — double the output two years ago — so that in no time at all, North Dakota is now the second-largest oil producing state in America. Only Texas produces more, and those lights are a sign that this region is now on fire … to a disturbing degree. Literally.
via Krulwich Wonders….
