One of the first things new copy editors learn is that they should change the contraction ‘til to the word till, or, in more formal contexts, until. Then, if they’re anything like me, they spend the ...

I don’t see the contraction ’til much anymore. I used to see it a lot, but I suspect that ever-more-advance spell-checkers on our computers, phones and social ...

The Bears and the Vikings were the big story Sunday in Minneapolis-St. Paul. There was plenty of coverage in the local papers and the constant flow of second-guessing on the sports talkers. But come ...

My kid brother and I were sharing our Sunday morning with 5,000 or so Mary Kay Cosmetics saleswomen. We were at a baseball park — Minneapolis’ Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome — in the fall of 1987, ...

I beseech you, forces behind any and all realignment efforts in conferences coast to coast: Stop it. We're creeping up on the 48-hour mark here. Just more than two days remain until the most tiresome ...

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