Plus Uptown Cub rises from the dead, the MN county where newspapers are flourishing, and the best (or least worst) TP at the ...

No time for extensive show notes—this is an emergency! Listen to all four Racket owner/editors gab for an hour-plus about all the Minnesota State Fair official new foods we gobbled Thursday. Gov. Tim ...

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Food & Drink The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2025 Minnesota State Fair Enjoy 7,000 words of reviews set to our proprietary Scarf!, Shrug, Skip rating system.

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Plus Uptown Cheba Hut is alive, the Greenway turns 25, and we're prepping for the fair in today's Flyover news roundup.

It can't be, but it is—the fair starts on Thursday, which is way too soon. So from now till Labor Day, there'll be a bit of a ...