Jay Boller

4 days ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. Does Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz want to be president? The 2024 Democratic VP nom is making headlines—from the the New York Times to the Washington Post—that suggest, yes, the 61-year-old politician might be eyeballing the top of the ticket in 2028. Walz spoke Friday at a South Carolina fish fry hosted by Rep.

1 week ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. Over 270 Macalester College staffers could soon become unionized. Officials from the private liberal arts college in St. Paul declined to voluntarily recognize the union, so workers filed a petition earlier this month for an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

If nothing else, Free Geek can liberate you from your various cord problems. The south Minneapolis tech recycling provider/thrift store will accept the jumbled nest of cords of you've been moving house to house, or, should you find yourself in need of cords, the shop has thousands of 'em for sale, most priced at around a couple bucks. "We all have that drawer at home full of old chargers and cords taking up space," says Kyle Kline, executive director of Free Geek Twin Cities.

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. Democrats say the DAMNDEST things these days, reports Madison McVan for the Minnesota Reformer. You see, for centuries politicians mostly swore in private. In the case of genocidal U.S. President Andrew Jackson, so much so that the cursing purportedly rubbed off on his pet parrot, Poll. These days, however, you got Rep.

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

It’s almost impossible to fathom the words that came from corporate America’s C-suites and boardrooms from Q2 through Q4 2020. After video emerged of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinning George Floyd’s neck to the ground for almost nine minutes, around 30 Minnesota executives signed a joint letter that vowed "substantive change...