MPR: Dayton says GOP’s current budget numbers don’t add up
PiPress: 331 owner eyes former Pop! spot in St. Paul
USA Today: Piers Morgan is pierssed off at Delta because he missed America’s Got Talent auditions
Bring.mn: Hennepin County Library goes mobile
WDAZ: Reporter with Minnesota roots heads for Libya
Strib: Even Denny Hecker needs love
Finance & Commerce: Fulton Brewery moving into downtown Minneapolis [login required]
March 24, 2011 at 6:59 am
Here’s another jolt of Joe from Finance & Commerce, the best little paper nobody reads.
March 24, 2011 at 7:00 am
I added some extra links to your round-up, Bob. Super excited to see how Fulton does in downtown Minneapolis.
March 24, 2011 at 7:01 am
1) I’d have to frequent all the bars in Nordest (difficult buy not impossible) to make a educated opinion. But for dreariness, the 331 would have to be near the top.
2)Good luck Guys.
3)Helllooo, Rachel. Good luck and be careful.
4)Even Denny Hecker needs love.
March 24, 2011 at 7:21 am
Responding to The Rat:
1) The Spring Street Tavern aint exactly the Ritz, either.
2) Dito. They will need it.
3) Down Boy. But, yeah.
4) All we need is love. But Denny needs more.
March 24, 2011 at 7:26 am
New York Times: T-Paw haunted by his treehugger past.
March 24, 2011 at 7:51 am
It will take a lot of work to get the old Pop!! place to have the signature stale beer/urine smell of the 331. And I love that the article has the owner saying it will have upscale bar food, because “that’s what we do.” Yep, hummus platter and deep fried food is WAY upscale. I like the 331, but for what it is, a stinky hipster bar.
March 24, 2011 at 7:57 am
I happened to stop in the Spring yesterday. Guy from the North Metro was drinking beer, saying how much he liked the place. (Maybe he just likes the busty bartender with the phrase “No Regrets” tattooed across her chest).
He said the bars where he lived were full of rednecks.
March 24, 2011 at 7:58 am
KC: I think Jerret was speaking of the 551, where the chow was better than the 331 (that’s a pretty low bar), but I wouldn’t call it “upscale”
March 24, 2011 at 8:01 am
Heh. He’s right, Rat. I’m not hatin’ on the Spring, which is a fine little NE Mpls watering ho. Just adding some context.
You want to see upscale in NE Mpls? The new Stanley’s, or Lush comes closer to that mark.
March 24, 2011 at 8:12 am
Hmm. Jason’s Station rejected my submission to The Wire on our essay scholarship for MN high school students, yet this story made the cut. CBS was better when Walter Cronkite was there.
March 24, 2011 at 8:25 am
Lingerie Football League! Outrageous.
March 24, 2011 at 8:27 am
That Fulton brewing things sounds kind of interesting, I wonder how…
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March 24, 2011 at 8:42 am
hmmm… there wasn’t a login earlier. weird.
March 24, 2011 at 8:52 am
I bet it would be an interesting story and something The Wire might pick up if you opened up the essay contest to submissions against biodiesel as well, Bob.
March 24, 2011 at 9:20 am
Rat: Actually, we have recieved some of those already. We just ask them to write about biodiesel, we don’t tell them what to think.
March 24, 2011 at 9:24 am
Taylor: They have a paywall. But it was available earlier today. Edina Patch to the rescue!
March 24, 2011 at 9:47 am
your ‘suggested topics’ suggest otherwise, bob.
March 24, 2011 at 10:16 am
A suggestion is just that. Since the essays will be judged by ALAMN staff and members of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, they are suggestions worth heeding. But students are free to write whatever they wish.
March 24, 2011 at 10:52 am
Really, unless there is some scam angle, why should anyone care if Hecker got married?
March 25, 2011 at 2:09 pm
“Really, unless there is some scam angle, why should anyone care if Hecker got married?” – Because I still can’t marry my partner?
March 25, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Why aren’t Catholics outraged and mobilzed every time someone gets married for the second time? I think we need people to start picketing second marriage ceremonies.
March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Don’t look at me. I’m still with Mrs. Lungs 1.0