I’ve lived in Faribault my entire life but my wife and I enjoy traveling all around Minnesota as well as the surrounding states. When I’m not at work I’m usually spending time with my grandchildren and my grown children. I enjoy going to watch the Vikings, especially at US Bank Stadium, concerts, taking my wife to various musicals and going out to eat… I really enjoy that, as my bathroom scale can attest. I love music and spend a lot of time on the weekends looking for CDs of big hair bands that I don’t currently have in my collection.
Mike Eiler
Visit the Minnesota Zoo For Free
Last year I posted a story about free admission to the Minnesota Zoo through their Free to Explore Zoo Admission Program, or ZAP. Through this new program, the zoo was visited by 65,700 people that were limited incomes in 2016 in comparison to the attendance of about 40,000 people through the program that had been in place in 2015...
What If Dr. Seuss Wrote About Southern Minnesota?
On this very day in 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Mass. This child would grow up to be a writer, cartoonist, animator, publisher and the author best known as Dr. Seuss. Over the course of his life, he published more than 60 children's books as well as a few books for adults...
Froggy Bottoms in Northfield Hosts a Bennett-fit This Saturday
Wake up weekday mornings and have some fun listening for the Hit of the Day at 8:05AM and maybe win a $10 gift certificate to Froggy Bottoms River Pub in historic downtown Northfield. Make sure to write down the artist and song title of each Hit of the Day, then on Friday morning if you're the first person through on the studio lines with all five correct, you'll score that gift certificate to Fro
Weirdest Small Towns in the United States
It's amazing the crap you can find on Facebook. Today I was perusing this rich and diverse digital social community and stumbled across the website Ranker.com, where they proudly proclaim you can vote on everything. I'm not really sure how much scientific data is actually used in any of their stories, ranking various things like "The Coolest Ghost Towns in America," "The Best Bill P
How Do Southern Minnesota High Schools Rank?
How good is the public grade school or high school you're sending your children to? I found a website called Niche that considers several parameters about each school and tabulates the results to see how they rate.
According to their website, "The 2017 Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U...
Recycling: It’s A Green Thing
I saw a joke on Facebook today that was about how today's younger generation are more in touch with saving the environment or, as the elderly woman calls it, "green thing." The older woman goes on to school the teenage upstart that recycling has been around for years, we just didn't call it that, we were being thrifty...
Mike’s Rules For Driving on I-35
Interstate 35 is a major north/south Interstate Highway that runs from Texas to Minnesota that splits into I-35E and I-35W in Burnsville and reconnects just south of Forest Lake to continue on to Duluth.
I-35 is a modern marvel of transportation that passes through several major cities in the heart of the United States...
Wyoming Man Receives New Face at Mayo Clinic in Rochester
This morning during the news I had a story about how surgeons at the Mayo Clinic just completed the first face transplant ever performed at that prestigious facility. It was a short story so I thought I'd try to find out a little more information...
Sad To See The Snow Go?
February has turned out to be quite a warm month, with temperatures approaching the 60s by this Friday. Our average high at this time of the year is 29 degrees Fahrenheit and the average low is 8 degrees above zero, and we normally get about 8 inches of snow...
How Safe is the Ice?
Last Friday, the Rice County Sheriff's Department asked local ice fishing enthusiasts to stop driving their vehicles on Rice County lakes, due to the unseasonably warm weather we've been experiencing this month. As of January 20, three vehicles have gone through the ice; luckily no one was seriously injured in those incidents...