Jay Boller

Minneapolis, Two Harbors

Co-Editor and Co-Owner at Racket

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Articles

Minneapolis Voices Publications Brace for 'Reset and Transition'

2 days ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. We'll forgo our typical ironclad shield of objectivity and state outright: bummer. Southwest Voices and Downtown Voices, sister publications launched by Charlie Rybak under the banner of Minneapolis Voices, have jettisoned their founding editors, Melody Hoffmann (SWV) and Brianna Kelly (DTV).
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: MN Man Shares Name With New Pope

6 days ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

In this wretched industry known as "the news," a local angle on national—or better yet international—headlines is manna from journalism heaven.
St. Paul Restaurateur Rants About 'Out of Control' Crime to Fox News as Crime Rates Fall

1 week ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. "Really kind of the last three, four years crime has spiraled out of control… it keeps exploding," Brian Ingram, owner of St. Paul-based Purpose Restaurants group, said Friday during an appearance on Fox News.
TWIN CITIES STORM WATCH 2025: Oh Hail No, Twister Talk Blows Up Internet

2 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. The Twin Cities weather-watching community has been in high-alert mode since Sunday, when forecasts of severe thunderstorms and potential tornados began swirling. The opening salvo of the predicted two-round Monday event? A lightly rainy bust, at least here in the Twin Cities, though Rock County did endure some asymmetrical hail.
We Taste Tested the New Frozen Jucy Lucy Brand

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

I'm a lifelong, fourth-generation Minnesotan whose (very bad!) 2008 Minnesota Daily article serves as the third citation on the Jucy Lucy Wikipedia page. I've eaten dozens of the molten-core cheeseburgers; I've authored stories about their appearances in Vietnam; I've asked the Twins which ones Carlos Correa inhales; I've called out the Star Tribune for committing Jucy Lucy heresy.
Reports: Hegseth's Job Security as Blurry and Unstable as His Saturday Nights

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. In retrospect, choosing an (allegedly) alcoholic, (allegedly) adulterous, (accused) sexual assaulter who worked weekends for Fox News to lead the Pentagon was... a gamble, to put it mildly. Pete Hegseth is reportedly enduring a "month from hell," according to sources within the department.
Can the State of MN Fire You For Calling Out Corporate Bullshit in Your Free Time?

1 month ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories.
Disbanded in 2019, MN's Wikipedia Editors Are Gathering Once Again: 'We Need People'

1 month ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Wikipedia is the eighth most-visited website on the planet, per (and apologies for our lack of research rigor) Wikipedia. Unlike the sites that chart above it, all of which are owned by tech oligarchs representing varying yet considerable evil levels, Wikipedia is controlled by a nonprofit called the Wikimedia Foundation. And the online encyclopedia's content is produced by tens of thousands of volunteer editors known as Wikipedians.
How a Reality Show Helped MPD Botch a Murder Investigation

1 month ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. All friend of Racket Jessica Lussenhop does is produce bangers, so it's no surprise that her latest for ProPublica—"'A Wholly Inaccurate Picture': Reality Cop Show 'The First 48' and the Wrongly Convicted Man"—brings the goods.
Let's Talk About Video Games in This Week's Open Thread

1 month ago | racketmn.com | Jay Boller

Earlier this week news broke that Game Informer—the locally headquartered, 33-year-old video game magazine that shut down last summer—will soon come back from the dead. Great news, and here's hoping its new crypto-financed savior doesn't fuck things up. That got us thinking: The Racket community has never discussed video games, a $200 billion industry whose boosters believe it's poised to out-earn Hollywood. Me? I'm not much of a gamer these days.