Jay Boller @jaymboller Twitter profile

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Jay Boller

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3 years

Tesla is hiring a full-time position to handle people talking shit about @elonmusk online

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4 years

Coronavirus report from my WI friend

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2 years

I'm among the bold media truth-tellers at the opening of the architecturally significant Taco Bell

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3 years

@elonmusk lol:

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Jay Boller

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1 year

The detail about the CEO who just killed Gawker 2.0 spending more money on an old hat ($1.4M) than Gawker ($1.35M) is going to live with me for awhile

BDG shutters Gawker 2.0: “We have to prioritize our better monetized sites”

BDG CEO Bryan Goldberg called Gawker "a pre-monetization product," but the brand is really old in internet years.

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Jay Boller

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10 months

@ech0astral incredible insight into major events having the ability to shape things

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3 years

The thought of someone enjoying a fraudulent sandwich concerns me to my core

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3 years

Despite fraud concerns, MN won’t limit free summer meals for kids

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Jay Boller

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4 years

The guy who announced these 28 layoffs makes $352/hr

City Pages

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4 years

Jobs, shows slashed at Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media

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6 years

@seanhannity @CNN @NBCNews you're linking to NBC News, genius

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2 years

If I'm the State Fair marketing team, I'm moving mountains to get the corn kid from TikTok to the Corn Roast booth

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2 years

Just got off the phone with a barista at the Mpls. location: "It's an overwhelming majority, they don't scare us"

Racket

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2 years

The Starbucks unionization wave just hit Minnesota

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2 years

Today I learned Paul Bunyan has a 17-ft smokeshow gf in Hackensack, MN

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3 years

Hey Madison Ave fatcats: advertisng isn't about "the latest celebrity" doing a "meme," it's about dogs wanting tacos, frogs wanting beer

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2 years

I talked with over a dozen workers to try and answer this Q:

What the Hell Has Been Going On at MPR? - Racket

We spoke with eight former workers about the years-long exodus of staff talent.

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Jay Boller

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9 months

The other Twin Cities

Mayor Guy Fieri

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9 months

RIP to an icon!! Margaritaville and Flavortown are twin cities!!

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Jay Boller

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3 years

Pillow guy down

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2 years

It's interesting watching Tattersall, Peace Coffee, Surly, Spyhouse, etc. reflexively crack down on union activity. Same mindset as Starbucks/Amazon, just with "craft" branding

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Jay Boller

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4 years

Being a journalist is cool because you constantly have homework assignments and everyone hates you

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4 years

@PtakJokes big-hogged king

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4 years

Have very limited internet right now but would like to say that City Pages was good and the fact it no longer exists is bad

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2 years

I asked if they considered pneumatic tubes for the retro charm. They did not.

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4 years

If I were Garrison Keillor I would simply shut the fuck up

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1 year

@Joshstrangehill "I call the big one Bitey" builds a whole universe where Homer has interacted and even bonded with those possums

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1 year

“The last several weeks have been extremely painful for me," says person making $1M+ at their fulltime job who won't be paid $130K for a credibility-destroying side hustle

Pioneer Press

@PioneerPress

1 year

Under fire, UMN President Gabel resigns position on Securian Financial board

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1 year

Racket doesn't have a graphic design department so I personally rendered four giant blunts in the mouths of the golden Capitol horses

The DFL's New Weed Bill Is Pretty Dope - Racket

Plus 'Boys in Blue' kinda blows, new brewery news, and a surprise 'Cheers' local angle in today's Flyover.

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Jay Boller

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3 years

@elonmusk The job has just been updated, call center workers are no longer responsible for critically thinking about Elon's mentions

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1 year

I could be wrong, but I believe this is the only local rail strike story that...... quotes a rail worker

Twin Cities Rail Worker: 'Everybody Has Failed Us' - Racket

On Thursday the U.S. Senate ostensibly sided with railroad tycoons, denying workers paid sick days while neutering their right to strike.

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Jay Boller

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3 years

Tired of the terrible lie that Betty's Pies is "good"

Rustic Inn Cafe is Better Than Betty's Pies, and It's Not Even Close - Racket

Let's settle the Great North Shore Pie Debate once and for all.

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2 months

I wrote about the fascinating case study of a billionaire who ignores all social norms:

With Duluth's Park Point, Kathy Cargill Crossed the Billionaire PR Precipice - Racket

The corrosive, antisocial behavior of elites usually feels abstracted—until it gets personal.

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Jay Boller

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4 years

The map has been activated

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Jay Boller

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5 years

Should we eat bread early and often? This baker says yes.

ABC News

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5 years

Should we pay attention to early 2020 polls? @NateSilver538 says yes:

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3 years

All the mine has to do is not pollute, which no sulfide mine has ever done, and then keep doing that for 500 years

Star Tribune

@StarTribune

3 years

If the Twin Metals copper-nickel mine opens as planned by about 2030, its success depends on not a drop of contaminated water escaping the site. The fate of the Boundary Waters may well depend on it.

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@flea333 Flea if this happened in Minneapolis, our readers need to know more about you almost shitting your pants here: Please hit me up! jay @racketmn .com

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Jay Boller

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1 year

FWIW: Racket turned down a multi-newsletter ad buy for Dr. Peterson's State Theatre shows, on account of his being weird and bad

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1 year

the current doing ad reads for a Jordan Peterson show is a big yikes 😬

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1 year

@PFF major Packers whiff on Creed Humphrey

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1 year

I wrote many, many words about what happened to Basilica Block Party, Rock the Garden, 10,000 Lakes, Soundset, SoundTown, Summer Set, River’s Edge, Festival Palomino, and Eaux Claires

What Killed the Twin Cities Music Festivals? - Racket

Festivals popped up throughout the greater metro area for two decades. They've mostly vanished.

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Jay Boller

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4 years

Not to get political, but here are my dogs being postmen #SaveTheUSPS

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Jay Boller

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2 years

Read all about me getting absolutely destroyed by a single 5mg weed gummy!

We Tried Delta-9 Gummies. For Journalism. - Racket

Take a minute-by-minute trip with us on Minnesota's freshly legalized THC products.

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I just asked a protest organizer (took 30 seconds, is the literal job of journalism), and you would not BELIEVE where they're getting these tents: "Walmart because that's where they were cheap... and we could afford it because of the generous donations from the community"

Pioneer Press

@PioneerPress

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Joe Soucheray: Protesters didn’t go off to school with tents, did they?

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Jay Boller

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2 years

I asked what they learned from everyone getting mad when they got rid of potatoes. They're "servants to the customer."

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4 years

I just don't understand why Garfield, a jobless cat, would hate Mondays so much

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2 years

The rat won

Bring Me The News

@bringmethenews

2 years

JUST IN: Stella's Fish Cafe in Uptown is permanently closing.

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Jay Boller

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3 years

Local news outlets with adult brains: Don't RT this account

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Jay Boller

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1 year

Kashkari made $500,000 PER MONTH working in investment banking before going into politics. Fun to see him cosplaying as a normal person.

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1 year

Grocery shopping with Minneapolis Federal Reserve president: 'It's sticker shock'

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3 years

Very little evidence the '91 Halloween blizzard even happened

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4 years

The Timberwolves were the Lonely Island once? (Strib archives)

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2 years

Are you seeing a shitload of rabbits in the city this year? A DNR expert told me there's no way to measure and, thus, anecdotes are all we have

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4 years

He goes on to tell an anecdote about being "accosted by panhandlers"

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2 years

Both of these drink answers are disturbing

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Jay Boller

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4 years

Was out aimlessly driving through rural Minnesota (COVID-19), and stumbled on this giant shirtless man chained to an old truck. Unclear why he exists!

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2 years

When Birk spoke at my Pearl Park football banquet in 1998, I would've never guessed he'd one day collect $64K in forgiven PPP loans for his 2-person motivational speaking company

Matt Birk, Millionaire Free-Market Bootstrapper, Got a $64K PPP Handout - Racket

The aspirational lieutenant governor claimed the free government money for his two-man public speaking company. He's one of the men.

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Jay Boller

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4 years

Kept digging, deleted again

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3 years

This MnDOT snowplow name finalist is OBSCENE

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1 month

If you live in a tacky $2.5M Prior Lake McMansion, you better have the world's worst painting hanging somewhere

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Jay Boller

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9 months

We hate hornets, but embrace parakeets? My column in a major daily newspaper.

Pioneer Press

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9 months

Soucheray: We hate tobacco, but embrace marijuana?

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2 years

In our 2-min phone conversation, Lindell said that I “should be arrested" and that I'm a "weird bot-troll" and a "disgusting human being"

Hardee's GM on Lindell FBI Raid: 'I Know For a Fact It Didn't Happen' - Racket

"Biggest fake news story I have ever seen and my store is at the middle of it," Adam Mahowald says.

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Jay Boller

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2 years

Happy 8th anniversary to this entirely unsymbolic photo that's impossible to read into

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2 years

Current on-the-ground snow levels can't support much more dog piss. New snow needed!

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Jay Boller

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5 years

My first social media job was for this coffee shop, which is uncoincidentally now closed forever

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Jay Boller

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10 months

Thrilled to announce two things: 1) This lovely award; 2) My typo-inspired rebrand as the dynamic, swashbuckling Roy Boller

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Jay Boller

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1 year

Nice to see exactly zero legacy media outlets adding "as first reported by Racket" when picking up Em's scoop 👍

Racket

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1 year

“I do not expect the heavy stations to come back. And this particular group of bikes—they’ve been around for a long, long time,” says Bill Dossett, Nice Ride's executive director

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Jay Boller

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4 years

Drag its ass, Boomer queen!

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2 years

A 5th local Starbucks is unionizing:

Nothing Symbolic to See Here: Workers at MOA Starbucks Move to Unionize - Racket

Solidarity inside Bloomington's mammoth shrine to consumerism.

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2 years

Have to wonder if Walz knows he's been banned for life from Wild Greg's

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2 years

INBOX (!!!): I just received the full police report on the bus crashing into Acadia

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14 Things I Learned at the Grand Opening of the Taco Bell of the Future - Racket

Media gathered Monday to learn about the world's first Taco Bell Defy, a double-decker T-Bell that zips Crunchwraps into your car.

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Jay Boller

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1 year

Beyond the obvious offensiveness, just lazy, dated hack stuff.

Star Tribune Opinion

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1 year

From Star Tribune Opinion's new editorial cartoonist, Mike Thompson: It's a bit noisy in Minneapolis

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Jay Boller

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4 years

Here's the whole post

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1 year

in fairness: a cool hat

NYC media mogul buys rare Napoleon hat for $1.4 million

Bryan Goldberg — whose company BDG owns Bustle, Elite Daily, Gawker and other websites — purchased the hat, also called a bicorne, in September from Sothebys in Paris for $1.4 million.

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4 years

Black Coffee & Waffle Bar in Como

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@MNUpNorthLakeG1 @UMNews do we have an estimate for what it'll take to move the two flags and take a sponge/warm water to that chalk? six figures? higher?

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2 years

Peace Coffee is officially a union shop:

Peace Coffee Workers Win Union Election! - Racket

The Twin Cities coffee roaster—whose motto is "In It for Good"—refused to voluntarily recognize the union. That ultimately didn't matter.

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Jay Boller

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1 year

So in the '30s the most popular @mnstatefair event was Thrill Day, which included the "Duel to Death" train collision + flame-engulphed divers + planes crashing into barns + cars smashing into brick walls. We have to bring it back.

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11 months

Hope this legally applies to birth and death certificates issued Friday

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Buh-REAKING: @MayorFrey announces Minneapolis is changing its name to "Swiftie-apolis" on Friday, the day of Taylor Swift’s concert

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5 years

If Minneapolis wants to be taken seriously as a world-class city, WE NEED MORE RATS AND PIGEONS

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Billionaire Kathy Cargill, while threatening to sue the Duluth News Tribune, called the homes she's razing "pieces of crap" that she "couldn’t imagine living in." LOOK AT THIS ONE:

2931 Lake Ave S, Duluth, MN 55802 | realtor.com®

View 48 photos for 2931 Lake Ave S, Duluth, MN 55802, a 4 bed, 1 bath, 2,114 Sq. Ft. single family home built in 1902 that was last sold on 06/08/2023.

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Star Tribune

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4 months

As Cargill family member's company buys up Duluth's Park Point homes, will locals get priced out?

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4 years

Expected so much better from patrons of Kid Rock's Big Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse

Ovation Girl

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4 years

Last night at Kid Rock’s Big Honky Tonk and Rock n’ Roll Steakhouse in Nashville, TN. Nashville is in phase 2, allowing restaurants and retail stores to open at 75 percent capacity, while bars remain closed. How is this even legal? #COVID #coronavirus

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4 years

Post deleted, misunderstood by "crazed self-righteous people" who'll lead to reelection of the "Tangerine Spleen"

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7 months

This is such a boring dog-bites-man story, and every outlet in town has breathlessly covered it like it's a historical free speech flashpoint. Students protesting right-wing weirdos is the natural order of things! It has happened for DECADES.

WCCO | CBS News Minnesota

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Protests planned for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barret's University of Minnesota visit

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2 years

Talked to a 23-year-old tonight who thought City Pages was Yellow Pages

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2 months

This passage about Kathy Cargill from Wisconsin Public Radio is maybe the most bizarre sequence of things I've ever read:

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Jay Boller

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1 year

As a small business owner I'm allowed to say that small business owners are the whiniest people on earth

Star Tribune

@StarTribune

1 year

Many executives are watching warily as Minnesota lawmakers develop a paid family and medical leave program. After years of failed attempts, Democrats are adamant that in 2023 they will join 11 other states that offer paid leave.

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2 years

An HVAC guy found this INSIDE MY FURNACE. Going to restore it into the ultimate conversation piece.

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1 year

Every word of this is so funny

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2 years

Much more interested in why she believes in wage theft. (Unaddressed here.)

Minneapolis/St.Paul Business Journal

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2 years

Ahead of opening her second Uptown restaurant, Kim Bartmann shares how the Minneapolis neighborhood set the scene for her culinary career and why she believes in its future.

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After almost 30 hours of marathon brainstorming, this man emerged with the magnum opus insult