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Embracing winter: Weather Zen
When the temperature rises above freezing -- as when it hit 36 in the Twin Cities today -- there's a show that seems choreographed by Mother Nature herself.
December sky
North Korea successfully fired a rocket today, raising the possibility of a long-range missile that destabilizes a barely-stable area of the world.
A story out of Massachusetts may be the crack in the dam for collection of Internet sales tax receipts.
That giant sucking sound this morning was an asteroid 'just missing' Earth. Or not.
Politics and snow removal
In Minnesota, it often doesn't really matter what a politician does, as long as the roads get plowed in the winter and the potholes get fixed in the spring.