Discover Minnesota’s only national scenic trail Upon reaching Itasca State Park, the North Country Trail is in the neighborhood of the Mississippi headwaters before turning south and following the Laurentian Divide. 06/15/2024 - 3:17 am | View Link
Outdoor briefs: June 15-21, 2024 Check out these fun, educational and free opportunities to get outdoors in our area's state parks, wildlife refuges and more. 06/13/2024 - 3:14 am | View Link
Review: Violence? Injustice? Math? It's all here in a history of 'The Great River,' the Mississippi In the mid-16th century, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his men traveled across North America, including large swaths of what would become known centuries later as the Lower Mississippi River. 06/11/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
Mississippi headwaters board director meets with DNR The Mississippi Headwaters Board (MHB) director Tim Terrill shared with the board that he met with the Northeast and Northwest Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) to discuss programs they are ... 06/11/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Facts to know about the Mississippi River The Mississippi begins at Minnesota’s Lake Itasca. Visitors there can see the headwaters and cross the river on foot, where it is only about 18 inches deep. Can’t make the trip? You can see ... 06/7/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Sorry Trump, but CNN doesn't have any "poll numbers" they're worried about. Here's Trump at his birthday party/rally down in West Palm Beach, working up the crowd as to whether the upcoming CNN debate (the one we're still wondering when he's going to back out of) is going to be fair.
TRUMP: I accepted it, and I'm sure, I think Jake will be fair.
Some of the country's "top CEOs" were apparently were surprised by the fact that Trump is a "meandering" moron. Who wants to take dibs on whether all of them will still vote for him or not?
Here's more on that meeting from CNBC:
Former President Donald Trump failed to impress everyone in a room full of top CEOs Thursday at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, multiple attendees told CNBC.
“Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said one CEO who was in the room, according to a person who heard the executive speaking.
A conservative advocacy group headed by scam artist Charlie Kirk is pushing Americans to drink raw milk at a time when a widespread flu outbreak makes this potentially fatal. This is just one of several moves by right-wing groups and media pundits since the Food and Drug Administration cautioned against drinking raw milk following the rapid spread of H5N1 bird flu among dairy cattle.
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Charlie Kirk, founder, and executive director of Turning Point USA, speaks at Dream City Church on June 06, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.
The New Republic has the deets on this jaw-dropping campaign ad it called “possibly the most distasteful, cringe-worthy political ad of 2024 to date”:
“I have another dream!” begins the skin-crawling video, which was posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Friday. “Yes, it is me, Martin Luther King. I came back from the dead to say something, as I was saying, I have another dream—that Anthony Hudson will be Michigan 8th district’s next congressman.
There are buildings with Trump's name on them. However, tenants have fought to strip the former President's name from their buildings in some cases. In New York, a judge ruled that residents of Trump Place have the right to remove Lumpy's name from the building if enough of them approve of it.
Colorado’s latest congressional campaign fundraising snapshot — the final one before the June 25 primary — showed new and intriguing dynamics emerging to stir things up in a high-profile presidential election year.
But some things have stayed the same — including in U. S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s current district, long after she announced she would run in a different part of the state.
Adam Frisch, the sole Democratic contender in the Boebert-represented 3rd Congressional District, once again hauled in the largest take of any Colorado congressional candidate from April 1 to June 5, with just over $1 million collected.