Community centers in Twin Cities planning remodels to aging community centers even as other cities deem them too expensive to build or maintain. Are the spaces still relevant and worth the $? m.startribune.com/as-twin-cities…

St. Paul teachers ratify contract with school district startribune.com/st-paul-teache…

Work begins on $800M Meta facility in Rosemount; city officials hope it will spur more development nearby startribune.com/meta-data-cent…

Burnsville woman's surgery went great -- until she got the bill for $32K. startribune.com/burnsville-wom…

Alice Munro, master of the short story, dies at 92: nytimes.com/2024/05/14/boo…

This Lakeville homicide case is terribly sad -- and really disturbing. Be ready if you read it: startribune.com/double-murder-…

When Elko New Market tested the aquifer in preparation for building a bottled water plant, the water turned dark and dirty. Residents wonder what this means for their well water in the future. startribune.com/water-turned-d…

Here’s a sampling of the North Shore’s raging waterfalls 💦

This video of Kathleen Ledecky balancing chocolate milk on her head while swimming is more impressive to me than her seven Olympic gold medals

Rice County approves gravel mine near Nerstrand Big Woods State Park despite residents’ environmental concerns startribune.com/rice-county-ap…

$13M settlement proposed in lawsuit filed by U of M against E.I. du Pont, federal government; money would go toward cleanup of pollution at UMore Park in Rosemount, Empire in south metro. Site was formerly a WWII smokeless gunpowder plant. startribune.com/settlement-wou…

Journalism is in a great place right now idk what y’all are talking about recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA1013/JobBoa…

When someone criticizes the strib but still includes the link to the article

So much science research is publicly funded, yet we scientists aren't required to make our findings understandable to broad audiences--that should change. Check out my opinion essay published at Inside Higher Ed #scicomm #STEM #research insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

Today, on the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birthday, Vann R. Newkirk II argues that the playwright, activist, and novelist’s most underappreciated talent was letter-writing. The latest Atlantic Books Briefing further explores that correspondence: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Google pulled an Olympics-themed ad for its AI chatbot after it sparked backlash from viewers that the messaging was impersonal and dystopian on.wsj.com/3WyJWrc on.wsj.com/3WyJWrc

Americans of all stripes are going out of their way to escape anxiety. That’s not the best strategy for their health, Richard A. Friedman writes: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

“I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes. nyer.cm/LXiQNNF