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Appeals Judge’s Snowbank DWI, Bessent: No Limits on Kids’ “Trump Accounts,” and a Wurlitzer Miracle - Plus Readers Sound Off (Dec 8)
Appeals Judge Charged With DWI After Snowbank Crash
Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Renee Lee Worke, a longtime jurist appointed in 2005 and reelected multiple times, is accused of two counts of driving while intoxicated after crashing into a snowbank near Owatonna. Deputies reported slurred speech, glassy eyes, and unsteady footing. Worke allegedly claimed one glass of wine two hours earlier, but a breath test registered 0.16. She was uninjured, booked, and bonded out. Courtroom irony alert: the arbiter of credibility now meets the field sobriety curve, up close and personal.
Bessent Says No Limits On Kids’ “Trump Accounts”
Scott Bessent said Sunday that so called Trump Accounts for children would function like trust funds and could be withdrawn at 18 or converted, with no restrictions on spending. A piece of the American economy for every kid, no seatbelts required. What could possibly go wrong when you hand teenagers no strings money and call it empowerment.
Wild Hearts And Wurlitzers, A Loud Little Miracle
On the verge of 52, a narrator finds redemption in two sanctuaries of sound. At Paul Kirner’s Music Palace, volunteers coax theater organs from the floor in shimmering color, turning playful tunes into an antidote to regret. Then at the Muni in Pontypridd, Ginger from The Wildhearts, facing a health scare but refusing to cancel, delivers a ferocious, generous set that lifts the room far above grim headlines. File under rare good news, music still stitches people back together.
Readers Sound Off, Week Of December 8
Three gripes, three points. One reader cheers proposed laws to make canceling subscriptions less like escaping Alcatraz. Another argues voice assistants flub a wide range of accents, not just Indigenous ones, a reminder that imperfect tech is still learning. A third scoffs at putting wages on household chores, suggesting if you want pay, hire out and go earn yours elsewhere. Democracy, now in the comments section.
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