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Jay Boller

Racket co-founder/editor.

We Asked an Architectural Historian to Explain Why S. Mpls Homes Look Like This

The locally viral meme demanded historical context and insight.

April 27, 2022

This Guy Has Dug Up 1,300 Old Toilet Pits In Pursuit of Trashy Historic Treasures

Bottle digging is a full-time job for Grand Forks native Tom Askjem.

April 26, 2022

DFL Candidate Erin Maye Quade Had a Labor Intensive Weekend

Plus real estate you can't afford, Lizzo is at Xcel, and FilmNorth is moving.

April 25, 2022

Mpls Parks: Let’s Bring Cops Back!

Plus more COVID, T-Wolves choke, and following the money when a campaigning politician dies in today's Flyover.

Minnesota Is Getting Its First-Ever Vinyl Record Factory. It’s Massive.

Twenty-five year veterans of the CD game, Copycats Media just started work on a brand-new vinyl facility. It's reportedly the state's first.

April 22, 2022

Guess How Many Mpls Police Have Been Disciplined in the Past 2 Years

Plus a job opening in Brooklyn Center, a food swamp in north Minneapolis, and terrible toilets everywhere in today's Flyover.

Northern Minnesotans Scramble to Rescue ‘At Least’ 18 Abandoned Dogs

Thankfully, most have been recovered as statewide groups rush to help.

April 21, 2022

Garrison Keillor: ‘Violently Angry Women’ Just Don’t Understand My New Novel

The disgraced radio icon didn't like the Star Tribune's review.

April 20, 2022

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Plus Target goes full-time hybrid, CenterPoint's CEO reaps the benefits of price gouging, and more State Fair Grandstand acts in today's Flyover.

April 19, 2022

Wanna Buy the Ol’ Electric Fetus Duluth Building?

The downtown record shop closed last May after 33 years in business.

April 19, 2022