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From Highland Little League to the Saints team, Pat Gavin and Brian Whinnery have been lifelong friends. Now they are playing on the same team, as partners in a chocolate chip cookie business. Last year Gavin, now an accountant, and St. Paul Saints pitcher Brian Whinnery started selling chocolate chip cookies at the concession stands at the Saint Paul Saints games at Midway Stadium. With the success of that first season behind them, the two are now going big time, continuing to sell at Saints games and taking their cookies to the Metrodome for selected Minnesota Twins and Vikings games and Gopher football games. MORE »

“My name is Lars Martinson. I was born in Minnesota in 1977. I am currently in the midst of a foolhardy attempt to eke out a living as a cartoonist.” MORE »

While the rest of us were filling out tax returns in mid-April, owners and tenants of the Odd Fellows building at Hampden and Raymond — all of them either volunteers or small business owners — found themselves with some extra challenges. MORE »

In 1970 the popular song “It’s Not Easy Being Green” was composed and sung by Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street, the popular and iconic children’s television show. Kermit laments the fact that he is green and thus defined by his color. Thirty years later guess what – it is easy being green and you can find out just how green you can be by participating in the Seventh Living Green Expo going on this weekend, May 3 and 4 at the Minnesota State Fair from 10:00AM to 5:00PM on both days. MORE »