A 63-year-old man was accused Wednesday of pointing a gun at ICE agents in West St. Paul this week. The West St. Paul City Attorney’s Office charged him with obstructing legal process with force, a gross misdemeanor, and four counts … Continued
Every year around this time, the noise starts to drop. The pace eases a bit. Families gather, neighbors reconnect, and people who disagree on just about everything still manage to pass plates across the same table. Something about late November … Continued
As the year comes to an end, it’s time to take a look back on what happened in the east metro restaurant scene in 2025. So here are restaurants past (closed this year), present (notable 2025 openings) and yet to … Continued
Today is Thursday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2025. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today in history: On Dec. 25, 2009, passengers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 foiled an attempt to blow … Continued
I first encountered Leszek Kołakowski, the Polish political thinker, as an undergraduate. It was he who warned of “an all-encompassing crisis” that societies can feel but cannot clearly name. His insight reads less like a relic of the late 1970s … Continued
In the realm of horror, it was hard to beat the headlines last February that you were carrying around the equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your brain. The findings, reported in Nature Medicine, generated lots of … Continued