prince Minnesota is renaming a highway in honor of native son Prince, complete with purple signs Rusty Blazenhoff
politics Minnesota Senator: "I'm not a historian of Minnesota, but I do understand that the genocides between white people and Indians included several genocides each way." Mark Frauenfelder
snow Minnesota crowdsourced new snow plow names and they're as silly as you'd expect Rusty Blazenhoff
COVID-19 Republican official's spicy Holocaust meme about wearing masks doesn't go over well Andrea James
Copyfight Minnesota Public Radio sent us one of the weirdest legal threats we've ever received (and they won't explain it) Cory Doctorow
class war Even if you pay off your student loan, be prepared to spend decades trying to get bottom-feeding debt-buyers to acknowledge it Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow
Entertainment To do near Minneapolis: The Passing Zone, magical nerd juggling artists (Sat. 9/8) Xeni Jardin
native americans Relic from a shameful chapter of American history returned to the Dakota People by an anonymous donor Séamus Bellamy
class war A socialist candidate for Minneapolis city council has broken all fundraising records through individual $25 donations Cory Doctorow
police Philando Castile's killers secretly tried to order Facebook to let them spy on Castile's girlfriend Cory Doctorow