BERKELEY, Calif. — Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck usually begins his postgame news conferences with an encompassing opening statement, win or a loss. But after Minnesota’s 27-14 defeat to California on Saturday, Fleck began with an open-ended question. “Where do … Continued
Edward Lotterman Both Sen. Hubert Humphrey and Rep. Augustus Hawkins were raised in religious families. Yet when drafting their Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act in 1977, they forgot to apply Jesus’ warning in Matthew 6 to the Federal Reserve, … Continued
President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner last month because he didn’t like the monthly jobs numbers. He claimed the numbers were “rigged.” But Friday’s monthly report for August confirms that job creation has stalled amid his tariff … Continued
Madness in the land Is there madness in this land? Are the micro plastics and PFAS passing through the blood-brain barrier and causing an increased level of lunacy? Could this explain the current level of brutality? Oh how I wish … Continued
One of the fall season’s most anticipated thrillers, a novel about a man who might be Bob Dylan’s son, and food meets the Beat writers. Eclectic topics for a fall Sunday. (Courtesy of Atlantic Crime) “The Whisper Place”: by Mindy … Continued
Susan Monarez’s 28-day tenure as the nation’s top public-health official was doomed from the start. Her boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wanted her to do two things: champion his dubious anti-vaccine agenda and uphold “gold-standard science” at the Centers for … Continued