Featherly's Kev/Blog

01/09/2021 0

My books of 2020

I have been working on this for a week or so, inspired by Justice Paul Thissen’s FB list of his favorite books for the year. (True, he listed his top 10, and I’ve got 30--I believe that is all the books I managed to read all the way through in 2020). ... [Continue]

Zack Featherly (photo by Kevin Featherly)

06/14/2020 0

Featherly, Zachary Matthew

A man from whatever American city he happened to be in on a given day, Zack Featherly was born Aug. 27, 1984, and died from an overdose of ... [Continue]

09/24/2018 10

Rest well, Mumma: Janice M. Featherly (1935-2018)

Janice M. Featherly, of Minong, Wis., died peacefully on Friday, Sept. 21, in the home she shared with her son. She was 83. Janice was born in ... [Continue]

06/03/2018 0

DFL Nominating Convention-Day 3, via The Uptake

UPDATE: Rep. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, names a woman with the same first name–Rep. Erin Maye Quade, DFL-Apple Valley–as her running mate ... [Continue]

06/02/2018 0

GOP Party Convention, via the Uptake

Here’s what the Minnesota GOP is up to tonight at its convention in Duluth, on a livestream via the ... [Continue]

06/02/2018 0

DFL Endorsement Convention, via the Uptake

Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan have withdrawn their bid to win the DFL’s endorsement as governor. Erin Murphy has won the endorsement by ... [Continue]

05/28/2018 0

Memorial Day: Oh, Say Can You See?

For this Memorial Day, I thought I’d share this image of the original Star Spangled Banner, photographed in 1873 in the Boston Navy Yard. The ... [Continue]

02/02/2016 0

Why Iowa?

A Facebook friend wanted to know: Why is Iowa a bellwether state? Why should we care who they pick if it doesn’t look like the rest of the ... [Continue]

Astro Nate (still from from the "KIckin' It" video).

12/29/2015 0

They Call It ‘Kickin’ It’

Poor old Astro Nate. Complications to his left. Complications to his right. He’s always complicated—because he is doing it tonight. No, it ... [Continue]

12/28/2015 0

Al Jazeera Deserves to be Seen

The Peyton Manning doping documentary is a fascinating case in point demonstrating why Al Jazeera deserves to be seen by a wider audience. Watch the ... [Continue]