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1975 – Bigelow Wins Champ Go at Minnesota State Fair
Falcon Heights, Minn. (August 31, 1975) – Tom Bigelow of Whitewater, Wis., scored another victory today on the half-mile paved oval at the Minnesota State Fair. Bigelow was behind the wheel off the Leader-Card Lodestar Championship Dirt car powered by a .255 cubic inch Ford engine prepared and maintained by top Indy mechanic A.J. Watson.
Red Lobster shuts one-fifth of its restaurants in just one year after bankruptcy – & two dozen are closing this weekend
RED Lobster, the nation’s largest seafood restaurant chain, is facing turbulent waters as it grapples with Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The chain, which has closed one in five restaurants this year alone, has opted not to renew leases for nearly two dozen locations in what appears to be an effort to stabilize its business. The closures […]
New buoys improve Minnesota North Shore forecasts
For over 11 years Jay Austin and his research team at the University of Minnesota Duluth have carefully tended to a crop of bright-yellow meteorological buoys floating on Lake Superior. Each buoy captures real-time data used for weather forecasting, marine safety, commercial fishing charters, paddlers, swimmers, boaters, researchers and by anyone curious about the largest of the Great Lakes.
Tim Walz’s political origin story does not add up
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has long described the moment in 2004 that inspired him to run for public office. In Walz’s telling, the “folksy” high school teacher and two of his students attended a campaign rally for President George W. Bush as an educational experience. However, Walz says, all three of them were denied entry […]
Tim Walz says he's "proud" of son Gus, who lives with neurodivergence
SAVANNAH, Ga. — In a new interview on CNN, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he's proud of his son, whose emotional moment at the Democratic National Convention went viral. Walz sat alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic presidential running mate, and told interviewer Dana Bash he was taken by surprise in the best way possible when his son stood, clapped and tearfully shouted "That's my dad!" during his vice presidential nomination speech. The governor and his wife recently told People their son is a "brilliant" teenager whose "secret power" lies in his neurodivergence, as the teen lives with ADHD, an anxiety disorder and a non-verbal learning...
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