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At 88, former St. Paul Mayor George Latimer cheats death — and jokes about it

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

When then-St. Paul Mayor George Latimer proposed an overpass over Shepard Road, Highland Park residents rallied ready to “ream him out,” recalled Ken Peterson, recounting the fateful day the two sides met at a community speak-out.By the end of the meeting, Latimer had agreed to disagree with his critics, but also relented on his proposal in the face of strong opposition. The room, fully charmed, gave him a standing ovation.“George was so classy,” said Peterson, who would go on to become the director of the city’s Department of Planning and Economic Development, as well as a mayoral chief of staff and deputy Minnesota attorney general. “We all stood up and cheered for him.”Latimer, St. Paul mayor from 1976 to 1990, took his setback in stride.“I got killed on that one,” he quipped to a room full of longtime fans gathered for lunch in a meeting room of the Downtowner Woodfire Grill on Friday.St. Paul’s longest-serving and argu...

Ask Amy: Volunteer wonders about service animals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

Dear Amy: I volunteer at several public venues (including a zoo) where visitors frequently bring a pet that they claim is a service animal.Oftentimes this is clearly a lie. For instance, today a visitor at the zoo claimed that her puppy was a service animal.When I told her that animals weren’t allowed in this space, she took exception and dared me to quiz her on laws governing service animals.Management has warned volunteers like me to avoid getting into tangles with these folks — unless the so-called service animal is creating a nuisance or is a danger.When someone insists that their animal companion is a service animal or an “emotional support animal,” we are told to take them at their word. This is mostly to avoid the threat of a lawsuit.Would you please remind your readers that a service animal is a specific legal entity? Pretending that your dog — or any other pet — is a service animal does the rest of us a disservice. It’s entitled, selfish behavior that potentiall...

Word Game: July 1, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

TODAY’S WORD — SHILLELAGH (SHILLELAGH: shih-LAY-lee: A hardwood cudgel or club.)Average mark 32 wordsTime limit 45 minutesCan you find 42 or more words in SHILLELAGH? The list will be published Monday.YESTERDAY’S WORD — HOSTLER hero hers hoer hole holster horse hose host hostel hotel ostler other shoe shore short shot sloe slot sloth sole sore sort stole store those throe tole tore lest lore lose loser lost ethos rest role rose rote rotlTo purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!RULES OF THE GAME:1. Words must be of four or more letters.2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible.4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.Contact Word...

Bridge: July 1, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

“Simple Saturday” columns focus on basic technique and logical thinking.When a preacher told his congregation that there were more than 700 types of sins, he was besieged with requests for a list. Presumably, people wanted to know what they had been missing.There are many types of bridge errors: abuse of conventions, failure to count and faulty hand evaluation, to name only three. Maybe the most common error is neglecting to plan the play.Against today’s 3NT, West leads the queen of spades. Declarer wins with the ace and has 10 top tricks: two spades, four hearts and four diamonds. All he must do is take them.KING OF SPADESDeclarer must take the A-K of diamonds next, then the A-K of hearts and the Q-J of diamonds. He can reach his hand with the king of spades to take the Q-J of hearts.This is an easy contract to make, but if declarer plunges ahead without planning — if he takes the A-K of hearts first — down he goes. Surely none of my readers would fail...

Prigozhin Told the Truth About Putin's War in Ukraine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin addresses his units withdrawing from Bakhmut, the city captured from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. May 25, 2023, Bakhmut, Ukraine.Credit: UPI/AlamyOne of the most subversive things that Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin did during his brief rebellion last weekend was to tell the truth.Prigozhin is a pathological liar, a professional disinformation artist who was indicted in the United States in connection with the internet troll farm he ran, which was at the forefront of Russian efforts to intervene in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump win.But as the mercenary boss began his mutiny in late June, he experienced a brief and surprising bout of honesty when he launched into an online tirade against what he said were the lies used by Moscow to justify the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine. His comments were so candid and off-message for a Russian leader that it seemed as if someone had mistakenly handed him a speech meant ...

Última hora de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania, en vivo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

Yevgeny Prigozhin abandona la ciudad de Rostov del Don el 24 de junio. Alexander Ermochenko/ReutersEl presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, asiste a una conferencia de prensa en Kyiv este miércoles. Alina Smutko/Reuters/ARCHIVOHaz click aquí para ver las actualizaciones más recientesThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

French government says 1,311 people arrested in a fourth night of riots after teen killed by police

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French government says 1,311 people arrested in a fourth night of riots after teen killed by police.Source

¿Qué pasó con Cecilia Strzyzowski? Lo que sabemos del caso, investigado como feminicidio

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

(CNN Español) – – Sus últimas búsquedas en Google denotan su ilusión de realizar un viaje que nunca se concretó: cómo armar una valija, dónde comprar chocolates en Buenos Aires, dónde tomar buen café en Buenos Aires. Sin embargo, el destino final de Cecilia Strzyzowski fue la casa de los padres de su pareja, en Resistencia, provincia de Chaco. Al menos así lo cree la fiscalía de Argentina, que investiga su desaparición ―reportada el 6 de junio― como feminicidio.Toda Argentina está pendiente del caso de Strzyzowski, la joven de 28 años que fue vista con vida por última vez el 1 de junio, cuando se subió a la camioneta de su pareja, César Sena, para supuestamente iniciar un viaje en avión desde el aeropuerto de Corrientes, primero a Buenos Aires y luego a Ushuaia.Esto es lo que sabemosLas últimas imágenes de Strzyzowski que se conocen fueron grabadas por una cámara de seguridad de una vivienda enfrente de la casa de los padres de la pareja de la joven, Emerenciano Sena y M...

River visita a Barracas Central y Boca recibe a Sarmiento de Junín: horarios y cómo ver los partidos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

(CNN Español) — River y Boca tuvieron una semana dulce en la Copa Libertadores. Ambos ganaron y se clasificaron para los octavos de final del máximo torneo continental. Ese mismo andar no lo tienen en el campeonato local argentino.A solo 6 fechas del final del certamen, River Plate se mantiene firme como el puntero de la competencia. Es que el millonario le ha sacado 10 puntos de ventaja a Talleres de Córdoba, su inmediato perseguidor. En tanto que Boca anda a los tumbos, con un rendimiento bajo que lo ubica en la mitad de la tabla de posiciones.Gerardo “Tata” Martino y su tercer ciclo como DT de Messi: su carrera como jugador y como técnico y a qué juegan sus equiposVeamos cómo llega cada uno de los gigantes del fútbol argentino.River, la locomotora del campeonatoEl equipo de Martín Demichelis se encargó el último martes de cerrar la fase en el Grupo D de la Copa Libertadores con una actuación sólida. Le ganó a The Strongest de Bolivia 2-0, con goles de Miguel Borja y Rodrigo...

UK, Italy consider joining forces on irregular migration: Report

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:59 GMT

The U.K. is considering teaming up with Italy to address illegal migrant flows across the Mediterranean, the Telegraph reported late Friday.The newspaper reported that Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service Simon Case was sent to Italy in mid-June to meet senior members of the Italian government with the aim of preparing the deal.The agreement, which officials quoted by the paper said would focus on small boats, follows up on a Memorandum of Understanding signed in April by the two countries in an effort to tackle illegal migration under the “Strategic Migration Partnership.”Nearly 45,000 people arrived in the U.K last year after crossing the English Channel by small boats — a record high for Britain which led a few members of the Conservative Party, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s own political family, to demand tougher policies on irregular migration.Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, meanwhile, has been increasingly focusing on cracking down on migration flo...