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Update: Smokers, corporations to provide stadium funding backup
By Danielle Killey and Don Davis Smokers will provide the backstop to Viking stadium construction funding, the governor and legislative leaders announced Thursday night. If that is not enough, elimin...
Posted on 5/16/13 at 10:35 PM
Photo of incoming space rock 2012 DA14; check out a cool asteroid widget
Congratulations to amateur astronomer Dave Herald of Murrumbateman, Australia! He snapped one of the first images of incoming asteroid 2012 DA14 this morning as it passed through the halo of the ric...
Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:56 AM
Dave Wood's Book Report, Dec. 3, 2008
It’s stocking-stuffer time on the prairie and local publishers are stepping up to the presses with a slew of fun books for teenagers of all ages. Remember the movie “Slap Shot,” starring Paul Newman?By Dave Wood , December 03, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Nov. 19, 2008
Here’s a trio of new autobiographies that cover lots of time and lots of ground.By Dave Wood , November 19, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Nov. 12, 2008
Powerful military nation decides its time to teach a lesson to small Moslem nation, certain that its people will welcome the enlightened country’s victory over outmoded religious country whose time had come and gone centuries before.By Dave Wood , November 12, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Nov. 5, 2008
“Red osier dogwood, the Indians called it kinnickinnic, took inside their lungs smoke from the bark mixed with bear root and tobacco leaves.By Dave Wood , November 05, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 16, 2008
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.By Dave Wood , July 16, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 9, 2008
On a recent trip to Great Britain my wife and I were pointedly reminded that the United States is running out of independent bookstores.By Dave Wood , July 09, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 2, 2008
St. Paul poet Margaret Hasse is out with her third book, “Milk and Tides,” (Nodin Press, $16). Hasse writes about motherhood, aging, her childhood memories of South Dakota.By Dave Wood , July 02, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, June 25, 2008
Heading for the lake? There’s all manner of new books to take along for the rainy day.By Dave Wood’s Book Report , June 25, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, June 11, 2008
I’ve read quite a few books in my day, but it always amazes me when I read yet another and I realize I’ve most certainly not read enough. Once again this became apparent when I recently read “Magnifico,” by Miles J. Unger (Simon & Schuster, $32).By Dave Wood , June 11, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, June 4, 2008
Authors who take apart a region or a community have always been dear to my heart.By Dave Wood , June 04, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, March 19, 2008
Minnesota is busting out all over in the book world. Let’s start with one newcomer and one oldtimer. Minnesotan M.E. Smith has worked in the field of clinical research for pharmaceutical companies for nine years. He has also worked as an FBI investigator.By Dave Wood , March 19, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, March 12, 2008
Here we are in the shadow of the Oscars and here I am with two books about the movie industry that you may want to peruse. First is “Not the Girl Next Door,” by Charlotte Chandler (Simon & Schuster, $26). This one’s about actress Joan Crawford.By Dave Wood , March 12, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, March 5, 2008
After making international news with its book “The Artist’s Brush,” Mid-List Press, the not-for-profit publisher in Minneapolis, is out with a new book, the winner of its annual First Series Award for Poetry.By Dave Wood , March 05, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, Feb. 27, 2008
In “The Senator’s Wife,” (Knopf, $24.95) novelist Sue Miller is in top form as she plumbs the depths of two women who have become neighbors in a small New England college town.By Dave Wood , February 27, 2008
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