Readers and writers: How Barbara Kingsolver’s daughter got her to team up to write first children’s book
Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter Lily remember the day “Coyote’s Wild Home” was born at Barbara’s farm in the Appalachian region of southwestern Virginia. (The...
Northern Minnesota inventor hopes ice fishing rod holders catch on
HACKENSACK, Minn. — In a sport that has exploded with expensive technology in recent decades, like $400 battery-operated augers, $4,000 electronic fish-finding video-like sonar systems...
Tyler Cowen: The hypocrisy at the core of America’s elite universities
Now that congressional Democrats have relaunched an effort to ban legacy admissions at top U.S. universities, virtually everyone can count on one thing: ideological embarrassment....
Minneapolis fitness instructor Leslie Fhima makes it to ‘The Golden Bachelor’ finale
Over the past two months, both viewers and 72-year-old retired restaurateur Gerry Turner have gotten to know Minneapolis fitness instructor Leslie Fhima via ABC’s “The...
Skywatch: Your guide to buying a telescope for holiday giving
Over the years of writing this column and putting on astronomy and stargazing presentations, I’ve received inquiries from many nice folks about purchasing a telescope...
Other voices: Inoculation against extremism: Censorship only leaves us more vulnerable
New Yorkers were shocked and appalled when some social media personalities rediscovered a 2002 “Letter to America” in which Osama Bin Laden, dripping with antisemitism,...