Ron tells me Friday is cat blogging day.
Paul Krugman posts Friday night music, a distinct change from his usual (and excellent) blogging.
On Twitter, #followFriday was popular, but most of the folks I follow have gotten bored with it.
I could write about the most outrageous political (mis)statement of the week, but Romney and Romney and Bachmann leave too many choices.
So – cat blogging it is:
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All across St. Paul, corner mailboxes disappeared on Monday. “A big flatbed truck loaded with mailboxes,” one neighbor told me. They had a mailbox on the corner in front of their house. I had walked over yesterday to mail a letter, not long after the mailbox disappeared. Strange, I thought, but despite my news addiction, […]
I hope this is the morning after. I hope that tonight will bring no more fires, that familiar streetscapes will emerge from behind their plywood masks, that the work of rebuilding can begin in earnest on Lake Street and wherever fires and vandals destroyed parts of our cities. I hope that today and tomorrow and […]
If your windows were broken, your family business destroyed, in the protests and violence following the killing of George Floyd, how would you respond? With compassion and understanding, if you were any of business owners whose responses were compiled by Andrea Fjeldberg on her Facebook page. They focused on what is most important: the life […]
Local voices tell the same story: white men in vans setting fires, protesters trying to stop arsonists, a white man with a hammer smashing windows, people coming from outside to destroy community institutions. The governor and other public officials insist that the rioters come from out of town, many from out of state. Is that […]
May 29, 2020—11 a.m. I monitored news channels and Twitter until something past 2 a.m. this morning. My cities, my streets were burning. This morning I woke to news of the arrest of a Black CNN reporter, and then of his camera team, as they broadcast from Lake Street, as they asked police where they […]
Mary Turck