The secret all cities can learn from Albert Lea, Minnesota
Albert Lea lies about 90 miles south of the Twin Cities, and, as a quiet city with a population of around 18,000, probably isn’t often on your radar, and probably doesn’t come to mind...
Breathing city air = smoking cigarettes? There’s an app for that
Shit! I Smoke.
That's the name of a new app - which, ostensibly, will also be the reaction of many anti-cigarette inner-city dwellers when they realize the amount of similar toxins they're putting in their...
Are humans going to go extinct? Well, Minnesota looks pretty good
It's pretty common these days to think about the human race going extinct. From the doomsday clock sitting at 2 and a half minutes to midnight, to Elizabeth Kolbert's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth...
Celebrating 100 Years of Food, Health, Nutrition, Education
MAND, the Minnesota Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, is an organization committed to keeping food and health inextricably linked, and to the education of why that is so important - for anyone,...
The Future is Women (chefs included)
Last week, in and around the Twin Cities, the Women Chefs and Restauranteurs (WCR) held their annual National Conference. Well-known chefs and entrepreneurs like Carla Hall, Amanda Cohen, Lidia Bastianich, Elizabeth Falkner, and Gale Gand,...
Opinion: Don’t try to live before you die
"I want to live life to the fullest!"
"I want to reach for the stars."
"I want to..."
"I want to live life before I die."
These are not real goals. These are meta goals, and should not...
Congrats! Healthy Minnesotans live longer than most
We put up with a lot here in Minnesota: Winter, second winter, sometimes a third winter, spring maybe showing up, and, of course, the longest season of them all, road construction.
But, apparently all of this...
Twin Cities air quality: Don’t hold your breath
It's no secret that air quality in denser, urban landscapes (cities) isn't nearly as good as it is in rural areas: Congestion, traffic, emissions from countless factories, facilities, all contribute to poor air quality.
But...
Illume Holding brightens with large investment
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development(DEED) has granted $175,000 from the Job Creation Fund and an additional $450,000 from the Minnesota Investment Fund to Illume Holding, Co.
DEED Commissioner Shawntera Hardy had the...
Gender Blur
The idea of being genderless is nothing new, as androgyny can be traced all the way back to the Greek god Aphroditus. But there has been a lot of talk in the news lately about...
