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117-641: MSHS was founded in 1866 as the Minnesota Fruit Growers Association during a meeting of orchard owners at the Minnesota State Fair held in Rochester, Minnesota. The original purpose of this group was to share information on how to successfully grow apples and other fruit in Minnesota. Daniel A. Robertson helped found the society and was elected as their first President. In 1868, the name of

234-490: A DVD column, film reviews and trends, and a travel supplement called Destinations & Diversions (section D). The international edition of the paper features two sections: News and Money in one, and Sports and Life in the other. Atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays; the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition. USA Today has published special Saturday and Sunday editions in

351-679: A big stick ." Roosevelt became president just 12 days later, after William McKinley was assassinated. In 1925, the Minnesota State Fair was the site of the Norse-American Centennial celebration. During his appearance at the Norse-American Centennial , President Calvin Coolidge gave recognition to the contributions of Scandinavian-Americans and noted Leif Erikson as the discoverer of America. In 1967, attendance

468-431: A " McPaper " or "television you can wrap fish in", because it opted to incorporate concise nuggets of information more akin to the style of television news , rather than in-depth stories like traditional newspapers, which many in the newspaper industry considered to be a dumbing down of content. Although USA Today had been profitable for just ten years as of 1997, it changed the appearance and feel of newspapers around

585-642: A Territorial Fair in 1854, although the first Minnesota State Fair didn't occur until 1859, the year after statehood. In its early years during the 19th century, the fair was held in many different locations. Some were not far from the current site, but others were held in Greater Minnesota, including years where it was held in Rochester , Owatonna , and Winona . For a time in the 1870s, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul held competing fairs. Minneapolis,

702-535: A bull escaped from its handler charging several fairgoers before fatally injuring itself charging a fire hydrant. No people were seriously injured in the mishap. Foods served at the annual Minnesota State Fair have traditionally included watermelon pickles, baked beans , buffalo burgers, deep-fried cheese curds, cotton candy , glazed ham, Australian battered potatoes, chimichangas and homemade apple pie . Some foods reflect Minnesota's agriculture, including cheese curds , milk shakes, and corn dogs . Many foods at

819-543: A cleaner style. On September 14, 2012, USA Today underwent the first major redesign in its history, in commemoration for the 30th anniversary of the paper's first edition. Developed in conjunction with brand design firm Wolff Olins , the print edition of USA Today added a page covering technology stories, expanded travel coverage within the Life section, and increased the number of color pages included in each edition, while retaining longtime elements. The "globe" logo used since

936-530: A college degree which a number of longer-serving officers did not have, prompting a lawsuit against the State Fair on the grounds of age discrimination. Since 2021, the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office patrols security at the fair. The J. V. Bailey House, at 1263 Cosgrove Street, is one of the oldest buildings on the fairgrounds. It was built in 1911 and restoration was completed in 2006. It is connected to

1053-668: A great part in USA Today 's long-standing reputation for "fluff", but after its 30th anniversary revamp, the paper took a more active stance on political issues, calling for stronger gun laws after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. It heavily criticized the Republican Party for both the 2013 government shutdown and the 2015 revolts in the United States House of Representatives that ended with

1170-410: A politically neutral site, being about halfway between Minneapolis and St. Paul. The fair first opened its doors there on September 7, 1885. The site was then 210 acres (85 ha), but now stands at 322 acres (130 ha). The fair ran six days from 1885 to 1918. It was eight days from 1919 to 1938, ten days from 1939 to 1971 and 11 days from 1972 to 1974. It has been 12-days long since 1975. One of

1287-419: A reorganization of its newsroom, announcing the layoffs of 130 staffers. It also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms (including USAToday.com and its related mobile applications ) and launch of a new publication called USA Today Sports . On January 24, 2011, to reverse a revenue slide, the paper introduced a tweaked format that modified

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1404-504: A rundown of winning numbers from the previous deadline date for all participating state lotteries and individual multi-state lotteries. Some traditions have been retained. The lead story still appears on the upper-right side of the front page. Commentary and political cartoons occupy the last few pages of the News section. Stock and mutual fund data are presented in the Money section. But USA Today

1521-411: A second cover story within the second section. Each section is differentiated by a certain color in a box on the top-left corner of the first page; the principal section colors are blue for News (section A), green for Money (section B), red for Sports (section C), and purple for Life (section D); in the paper's early years, the Life and Money sections were also assigned blue nameplates and spot colors, as

1638-408: A snapshot in "Life" could show how many people tend to watch a certain genre of television show based upon their mood). These "Snapshots" graphs employ icons roughly pertaining to the graph's subject (using the example above, the graph's bars could be made up of several TV sets, or ended by one). Snapshots are loosely based on research by a national institute (with the credited source in fine print below

1755-455: A third international printing site, based in Hong Kong . The international edition set circulation and advertising records during August 1988, with coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics , selling more than 60,000 copies and 100 pages of advertising. By July 1991, Simmons Market Research Bureau estimated that USA Today had a total daily readership of nearly 6.6 million, an all-time high and

1872-445: A write-in candidate for president; or to focus on Senate, House and other down-ballot political races. In February 2018, USA Today published an op-ed by Jerome Corsi , the DC bureau chief for the fringe conspiracy website InfoWars . Corsi, a prominent conspiracy theorist , was described by USA Today as an "author" and "investigative journalist". Corsi was a prominent proponent of

1989-521: Is "Weather Focus", a graphic which explains various meteorological phenomena. On some days, the Weather Focus could be a photo of a rare meteorological event. On business holidays or days when bonus sections are included in the issue, the Money and Life sections are usually combined into one section, while combinations of the Friday Life editions into one section are common during quiet weeks. Advertising

2106-448: Is a carnival-like setting that contains most of the rides at the State Fair. The attractions include several funhouses, roller coasters and other thrill rides as well as numerous games of skill. It is located across the street from the Midway, but is not a part of it. Kidway is the carnival area on the fairgrounds geared toward children. Kidway is located between Dan Patch and Wright Avenues on

2223-739: Is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett 's corporate headquarters in New York, NY . Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, informational graphics , and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features. As of 2023, USA Today  has

2340-411: Is an organization that works to improve and preserves historic state fair buildings. The foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization, and also supports State Fair agricultural, scientific and educational programs. The foundation provided funding for the new Miracle of Birth center. The Fair employs about 80 full-time staff members for the entire year; in the summer, some 400 seasonal staff are hired. During

2457-698: Is often covered in the Monday Money section, with a review of a recent television ad, and after Super Bowl Sunday , a review of the ads aired during the broadcast with the results of the Ad Track live survey. Stock tables for individual stock exchanges (comprising one subsection for companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange , and another for companies trading on NASDAQ and the American Stock Exchange ) and mutual indexes were discontinued with

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2574-403: Is sufficiently different in aesthetics to be recognized on sight, even in a mix of other newspapers, such as at a newsstand . The overall design and layout of USA Today have been described as neo-Victorian . On most of the sections' front pages, in the lower left-hand corner, are "USA Today Snapshots" graphs, which offer statistics on lifestyle interests according to the section (for example,

2691-501: Is the cover page feature "Newsline", which shows summarized descriptions of headline stories featured in all four main sections and any special sections. As a national newspaper, USA Today cannot focus on the weather for any one city. Therefore, the entire back page of the News section is used for weather maps of the continental United States , Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands , as well as temperature lists for many cities throughout

2808-463: The 1984 United States presidential election , USA Today did not endorse candidates for the President of the United States or any other state or federal political office, a policy which has been re-evaluated during each four-year election cycle by the paper's Board of Contributors through an independent process, with any decision to override the policy based on a consensus vote in which fewer than two of

2925-495: The COVID-19 pandemic with the decision announced on May 22, 2020. Fair Manager Jerry Hammer had previously stated that the 2020 fair would not be a postponed or scaled-back event; it would either run unchanged or be cancelled. Of the decision to cancel, Hammer stated "this is the time of year when things really need to take off, and we can't do it. There's not time." Instead, a food parade featuring several well-known State Fair vendors

3042-665: The Journal Media Group , gradually began identifying themselves as part of the USA Today Network (foregoing use of the Gannett name outside of requisite ownership references) through early January 2016. In the late 2010s, as the print run declined, Gannett pulled back from the extensive and expensive distribution network, opting to have shorter deadlines, and printing the remaining copies from fewer facilities while potentially trucking them longer distances to still be available in

3159-523: The Lafayette, Louisiana -based Advertiser being the first newspapers outside of the pilot program participants to add the supplement on December 15), citing "positive feedback" to the feature from readers and advertisers of the initial four papers. Gannett was given permission from the Alliance for Audited Media to count the circulation figures from the syndicated local insert with the total circulation count for

3276-573: The Russian invasion , and an article on sunscreen. Miranda resigned. USA Today is known for news in compact, easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and Canada , each edition consists of four sections: News (the "front page" section), Money, Sports, and Life. Since March 1998, the Friday edition of Life has been split into two sections: the regular Life focusing on entertainment (subtitled Weekend ; section E), which features television reviews and listings ,

3393-597: The September 11 attacks . That November, USA Today migrated its operations from Gannett's previous corporate headquarters in Arlington, Virginia , to the company's next headquarters in nearby McLean . The company moved it's headquarters to New York, NY in 2024. In 2004, Jack Kelley , a senior foreign correspondent for USA Today, was found to have fabricated foreign news reports over the past decade. Kelley resigned. On December 12, 2005, Gannett announced that it would combine

3510-564: The Super Bowl ) previously used the orange color, but later changed to the regular sports red in their sports bonus sections. To strengthen their association with USA Today , Gannett incorporated the USA Today color scheme into a standardized broadcast graphics package that was phased in across its television station group (which was spun-off in July 2015 into the separate broadcast and digital media company Tegna ) starting in late 2012. The package used

3627-411: The USA Today editorial page is the publication of opposing points of view: alongside the editorial board's piece on the day's topic runs an opposing view by a guest writer, often an expert in the field. The Board of Contributors, which is distinct from the paper's news staff, chooses the opinion pieces that appear in each edition. From 1999 to 2002 and again from 2004 to 2015, the editorial page editor

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3744-513: The University of Minnesota . In 1955 MSHS began a cooperative relationship with the University of Minnesota and formed a committee to study the need for an arboretum and for increased research in the field of hardy, woody perennials. A "Landscape Arboretum Project" was authorized, and the committee began a public campaign to raise funds for tf a 160-acre tract of land near Excelsior, Minnesota where

3861-404: The false conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not a US citizen, and Infowars has promoted conspiracy theories such as 9/11 being an "inside job." In October 2018, USA Today was criticized by NBC News for publishing an editorial by President Trump that was replete with inaccuracies. The Washington Post fact-checker said that "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or

3978-506: The fifth-largest print circulation in the United States, with 132,640 print subscribers. It has two million digital subscribers, the fourth-largest online circulation of any U.S. newspaper. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states , Washington, D.C. , and Puerto Rico , and an international edition is distributed in Asia , Canada , Europe , and the Pacific Islands . USA Today

4095-547: The 2012 redesign due to the myriad electronic ways to check individual stock prices, in line with most newspapers. Book coverage, including reviews and a national sales chart which debuted on October 28, 1994, is seen on Thursdays in Life, with the full A.C. Nielsen television ratings chart printed on Wednesdays or Thursdays, depending on release. The paper also publishes the Mediabase survey for several genres of music based on radio airplay on Tuesdays, along with their own chart of

4212-559: The Fair's board refused to extend the Carousel's lease. The public learned the owners had dismantled the Carousel and sent it to auction in New York . The price wanted was $ 1.1 million. The idea that the State Fair Carousel would be lost to Minnesota prompted a public effort to save it. While not at the Fair grounds, today it remains intact at Como Park close by. It is now named for

4329-685: The MSHS annual reports from 1866-1873, and further provided an appropriation for distribution of future annual reports to members. In 1894, the Society began publishing its transactions in a monthly magazine called The Minnesota Horticulturist . In 1878, MSHS secured passage of a legislative act establishing the Minnesota Fruit Farm , an experiment station in Minnetonka , MN designed for breeding new varieties of hardy fruits adapted to Minnesota’s climate. This

4446-590: The Mobile Excellence award for Best User Experience, the MOBI award for Editorial Content, and Mobile Publisher of the Year. The USA Today site design was launched on desktop, mobile and TV throughout 2013 and 2014, although archive content accessible through search engines remains available through the pre-relaunch design. On October 6, 2013, Gannett test launched a condensed daily edition of USA Today (part of what

4563-516: The Presto platform. Developers built a separate platform to provide optimizations for mobile and touchscreen devices. The Gravity ad won Digiday's Best Publishing Innovation in Advertising in 2016, thanks to an 80% full-watch user engagement rate on desktop, and 96% on mobile. Following the relaunch, the editorial team behind USA Today Investigations ramped up its "longread" article plans, following

4680-500: The State Fair to more urban or suburban types of exhibitors. Machinery Hill also contains an interactive exhibit for kids called Little Farm Hands. In this exhibit, children get to experience life on the farm from planting seeds to selling goods at the farmers market. Machinery Hill is gradually being rebranded as "The North End." In 2019, a new main entrance gate was created in addition to the new North End Event Center, which hosts traveling events and expositions. Its 2019 inaugural event

4797-416: The U.S. and the world. Temperatures for individual cities on the primary forecast map and temperature lists are suffixed with a one- or two-letter code, such as "t" for thunderstorms , referencing the expected weather conditions. The colorized forecast map was created by staff designer George Rorick (who left USA Today for a similar position at The Detroit News in 1986) and was copied by newspapers around

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4914-658: The USA Today Careers Network (now Careers.com), a website featuring localized employment listings, then on July 18, the USA Today News Center was launched as an interactive television news service developed through a joint venture with the On Command Corporation that was distributed to hotels around the United States. On September 12 of that year, the newspaper set an all-time single day circulation record, selling 3,638,600 copies for its edition covering

5031-589: The United States at its Hong Kong publishing facility; additional editorial bureaus were launched in London and Moscow in 1996. On April 17, 1995, USA Today launched its website to provide real-time news coverage; in June 2002, the site expanded to include a section providing travel information and booking tools. On August 28, 1995, a fifth international publishing site was launched in Frankfurt, Germany , to print and distribute

5148-538: The United States in October 2013. On September 3, 2014, USA Today announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations. In October 2014, USA Today and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a Bingo mobile app called USA Today Bingo Cruise. On December 3, 2015, Gannett formally launched the USA Today Network, a national digital newsgathering service providing shared content between USA Today and

5265-747: The UpNorth Puff Pastry. New foods for 2019 included fried tacos on a stick, stuffed cabbage rolls , feta bites, shrimp and grits fritters , blueberry key lime pie, Buffalo chicken chimichanga and assorted other dessert selections. Machinery Hill is a large area of the fairgrounds. For several decades, it held the largest annual display of farm equipment in the world, with many companies showing off tractors , combines , and various attachments. However, modern displays generally focus on cars , trucks, lawn mowers , hot tubs and recreational machines like motorbikes . Farm implement dealers tend to direct their efforts to more targeted "farm shows," abandoning

5382-715: The Western Fair Association, the International Associate of Fairs and Expositions, and the Minnesota Environmental Initiative. In 1913 Austin McFadden, a Michigan entrepreneur approached the Fair about building the first roller coaster on the Fair grounds and was turned down. The next year he was back and offered to throw in a merry-go-round to get the Fair Board's approval. They did. For

5499-467: The adjacent city of Roseville , near the Como Park and Saint Anthony Park neighborhoods of Saint Paul. Residents of the state and region come to the fair to be entertained, exhibit their best livestock , show off their abilities in a variety of fields including art and cooking , learn about new products and services, and eat many different types of food —often on a stick. The Minnesota State Fair

5616-487: The amount of sales that Gannett projected. The design uniquely incorporated color graphics and photographs. Initially, only its front news section pages were rendered in four-color, while the remaining pages were printed in a spot color format. The paper's overall style and elevated use of graphics—developed by Neuharth, in collaboration with staff graphics designers George Rorick, Sam Ward, Suzy Parker, John Sherlock and Web Brya—were derided by critics, who referred to it as

5733-562: The appearance of its front section pages, which included a larger logo at the top of each page; coloring tweaks to section front pages; a new sans-serif font, called Prelo, for certain headlines of main stories (replacing the Gulliver typeface that had been implemented for story headers in April 2000); an updated "Newsline" feature featuring larger, "newsier" headline entry points; and the increasing and decreasing of mastheads and white space to present

5850-597: The arboretum was to be built. The finance campaign was successful, and on February 6. 1958, the University accepted a deed to the property that became the location of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum . In 1993, MSHS relocated from the University of Minnesota campus to a facility in Falcon Heights, Minnesota , and in December, 2009 moved to its current location at 2705 Lincoln Dr. Roseville, Minnesota. In 2000

5967-712: The candidacy of Republican nominee Donald Trump , calling him "unfit for the presidency" due to his inflammatory campaign rhetoric (particularly that aimed at the press, with certain media organizations being openly targeted and even banned from campaign rallies, including The New York Times , The Washington Post , CNN and the BBC , military veterans who had been prisoners of war, including 2008 Republican presidential candidate and Vietnam War veteran John McCain , immigrants, and various ethnic and religious groups); his temperament and lack of financial transparency; his "checkered" business record; his use of false and hyperbolic statements;

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6084-474: The color scheme in a rundown graphic on most stations, persisting throughout their newscasts, as well as bumpers for individual story topics. In many ways, USA Today breaks the traditional newspaper layout. Some examples of its divergence from tradition include using the left-hand quarter of each section as "reefers" (front-page paragraphs referring to stories on inside pages ), sometimes using sentence-length blurbs to describe stories inside. The lead reefer

6201-488: The company's 92 local newspapers throughout the United States as well as pooling advertising services on both a hyperlocal and national scale. The Courier Journal had earlier soft-launched the service as part of a pilot program started on November 17, coinciding with an imaging rebrand for the Louisville, Kentucky -based newspaper; Gannett's other local newspaper properties, as well as those it acquired through its merger with

6318-494: The editorial board's members dissent or hold differing opinions. For most of its history, the paper's political editorials (most of them linked to the presidential election cycle) had focused instead on major issues based on the differing concerns of voters, the vast array of information on these themes, and the board's aim to offer a fair viewpoint through the diverse political ideologies of its members and avoid reader perceptions of bias. The avoidance of political editorials played

6435-468: The facility completed the first phase of a $ 35 million remodeling project that removed large sections of bleachers and increased seating capacity to 17,000. Most local television and radio stations set up temporary studios at the State Fair in their permanent buildings or booths. In 2012 the fair began holding the Walker Art Center's Internet Cat Video Festival in the grandstand. Fairgoers watch

6552-412: The fair are deep-fried or come on a stick, from the classic corn dog to alligator-on-a-stick, lobster-on-a-stick, and deep-fried candy bar on a stick. New to the fair in 2006 was hotdish on a stick, a variant of a classic staple of Minnesotan cuisine. In 2007, one new food was spaghetti on a stick. 2008's new foods included two types of bacon , one called "Pig Lickers", which is chocolate covered, and

6669-580: The fair as far back as 1898, although the head-sculpting tradition did not begin until 1964. The main entrance to the fair from Snelling Avenue heads onto a road named Dan Patch Avenue for a pacer horse who won every race he ran in from 1900 to 1909 when he was retired. In 1898 the Spanish American War broke out. The states were requested to provide volunteers and Minnesota quickly had enough to form four Regiments. They were initially numbered 1–4, but GAR veterans felt that they should continue

6786-724: The fair since 1966. In 1986, he was joined on promotional materials by his nephew, Fairborne. The fairgrounds host several events throughout the year. Events include horse shows in the Lee & Rose Warner Coliseum and Horse Barn, the Minnesota Horse Expo and the Minnesota Beef Expo, gymnastics meets and other sporting events, dog shows, antique and hot-rod car shows, motorcycle shows, model railroad shows, clothing and jewelry shows, gun and weapon collectors shows, comic book conventions, flea markets and swap meets, and more. Buildings on

6903-569: The fair time, around 3,000 temporary employees are hired. The State Fair area was policed by the Minnesota State Fair Police Department . The Chief of Police is Paul Paulos, appointed in 2018, who replaced Art Blakely, who had been chief for 37 years. Their authority is given by section 37.20 of the Minnesota Statutes. In 2020, 37 police officers were dismissed and required to re-apply for their positions, requiring

7020-633: The fair was not held because of the Civil War and the Dakota War of 1862 . Scheduling issues between the fair and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago , Illinois caused the 1893 fair to be cancelled. The fair was not held in 1945, as fuel was in short supply due to World War II and it was again cancelled in 1946 because of an outbreak of polio . The fair was most recently cancelled in 2020, this time due to

7137-524: The fair. There are competitions in dozens of categories in needlecraft , garment-making, wood-working, models , painting, doll-making, taxidermy , stamp-collecting, scrapbooking , baking, canning , and others. The annual 5 km run begins on the fairgrounds, winds its way through the Saint Paul campus of the University of Minnesota and the Saint Anthony Park neighborhood, and ends back at

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7254-542: The fairgrounds. 4-H has a significant presence at the fair, both in the 4-H Building and in the animal barns and arenas. Contests include herdsmanship, horse showmanship , judging teams, public presentations, county club exhibits, and the popular llama and alpaca costume contest. Livestock displays include beef and dairy cattle, dairy and market goats, poultry (chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and pigeons), rabbits, domestic sheep , and swine. About half of all 4-H projects entered are animal science projects. The 4-H building

7371-451: The first annual events to occur is the creation of a butter sculpture . Each year, a new Princess Kay of the Milky Way is selected to promote Minnesota's dairy industry. Part of the job involves posing for several hours in a walk-in, glass-walled refrigerator as a 90-pound (41 kg) block of butter is carved into a head with her likeness. Butter makers started sculpting their products at

7488-422: The flagship national edition of USA Today . On January 4, 2014, USA Today acquired the consumer product review website Reviewed . In the first quarter of 2014, Gannett launched a condensed USA Today insert into 31 other newspapers in its network, thereby increasing the number of inserts to 35, in an effort to shore up circulation after it regained its position as the highest-circulated weekday newspaper in

7605-411: The given area on the forecast map, are also featured. Weather data is provided by AccuWeather , which has served as the forecast provider for USA Today for most of the paper's existence (except from January 2002 to September 2012, when forecast data was provided by The Weather Channel through a long-term multimedia content agreement with Gannett). In the bottom left-hand corner of the weather page

7722-431: The graph). The newspaper also features an occasional magazine supplement called Open Air , which launched on March 7, 2008, and appears several times a year. Other advertorials appear throughout the year, mainly on Fridays. The opinion section prints USA Today editorials, columns by guest writers and members of the editorial board of contributors, letters to the editor, and editorial cartoons. One unique feature of

7839-414: The greenhouses and was occupied year-round by the greenhouse superintendent until 2004. The State Fair Foundation operates out of the residence. The fair's mascots are two anthropomorphized gophers . The choice of gopher as mascots was an homage to the University of Minnesota mascot which is also a gopher and was a historical reference to the expansion of railroads in Minnesota, towns popping up across

7956-565: The grounds are frequently rented for commercial events such as appliance sales, computer and electronics sales, and boat and car sales. Earlier in the summer, some of the fairground's roads are used to host an annual series of bike races during the week, called the State Fair Affair Criterium Series. Many buildings on the fair grounds are rented for winter storage of boats, camping trailers, and similar equipment. USA Today USA Today (often stylized in all caps )

8073-489: The grounds in a gondola. The Space Tower is a gyro tower that rotates as it lifts people over 300 feet (90 m) in the air, giving views of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. There is also a haunted house which has been around since 1977 and is located on Judson Ave. The fair's oldest existing ride, Ye Old Mill (opened in 1915), is located near the food building. It is a " tunnel of love "-style ride for all ages. The Midway

8190-402: The inconsistency of his viewpoints and issues with his vision on domestic and foreign policy; and, based on comments he had made during his campaign and criticisms by both Democrats and Republicans on these views, the potential risks to national security and constitutional ethics under a Trump administration, asking voters to "resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue". The board wrote that

8307-506: The international edition throughout most of Europe. On October 4, 1999, USA Today began running advertisements on its front page for the first time. In 2017, some pages of USA Today's website features Auto-Play functionality for video or audio-aided stories. On February 8, 2000, Gannett launched USA Today Live , a broadcast and Internet initiative designed to provide coverage from the newspaper to broadcast television stations nationwide for use in their local newscasts and their websites;

8424-464: The largest contributor to its remaining in Minnesota, Gerard Cafesjian . Musical venues include The Grandstand, with a capacity of up to 17,000, and free entertainment venues. There are several rides that are permanent fixtures at the fair, including the Giant Slide, on which fairgoers ride down a large fiberglass slide on burlap sacks. The Skyride is an aerial lift ride that carries fairgoers across

8541-590: The largest readership of any daily newspaper in the United States. On September 1, 1991, USA Today launched a fourth print site for its international edition in London for the United Kingdom and the British Isles . The international edition's schedule was changed as of April 1, 1994, to Monday through Friday, rather than from Tuesday through Saturday, in order to accommodate business travelers; on February 1, 1995, USA Today opened its first editorial bureau outside

8658-546: The largest state fair in the United States by average daily attendance and the second-largest state fair in the United States by total attendance, trailing only the State Fair of Texas , which generally runs twice as long as the Minnesota State Fair. The state fairgrounds, adjacent the Saint Paul campus of the University of Minnesota , are in Falcon Heights, Minnesota , midway between the state's capital city of Saint Paul and

8775-458: The launch of the paper on April 20, 1982. USA Today began publishing on September 14, 1982, initially in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas, for a newsstand price of 25¢ (equivalent to 79¢ in 2023). After selling out the first issue, Gannett gradually expanded the national distribution of the paper, reaching an estimated circulation of 362,879 copies by the end of 1982, double

8892-445: The main and section pages), clickable video advertising and a responsive design layout. The site was designed and developed to be more interactive, faster, provide "high impact" advertising units (known as Gravity), and provide the ability for Gannett to syndicate USA Today content to the websites of its local properties, and vice versa. To accomplish this goal, Gannett Digital migrated its newspaper and television station websites to

9009-484: The morning. In May 2021, USA Today introduced a paywall for some of its online stories. On June 16, 2022, it was reported that USA Today removed 23 articles written by journalist Gabriela Miranda after an inquiry related to one of her articles triggered an internal investigation and found that Miranda had fabricated sources on articles pertaining to the Texas Heartbeat Act , Ukrainian women's issues due to

9126-399: The name of the MSHS publication was changed from Minnesota Horticulturist to Northern Gardener . Minnesota State Fair 44°58′52″N 93°10′5″W  /  44.98111°N 93.16806°W  / 44.98111; -93.16806 The Minnesota State Fair is the state fair of the U.S. state of Minnesota . Also known by its slogan, " The Great Minnesota Get-Together" , it is

9243-539: The newer, less-obtrusive advertising strategy. Gannet Digital designed, developed, and released the longread mobile experience to coincide with the launch of Brad Heath 's series Locked Up , which won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Tom Renner Award in October 2013. Gannett Digital's focus on its mobile content experience paid off in 2012 with multiple awards; including the Eppy for Best Mobile Application,

9360-596: The newspaper began turning its first profit in May 1987, six months ahead of Gannett's corporate revenue projections. On January 29, 1988, USA Today published the largest edition in its history, a 78-page weekend edition featuring a section previewing Super Bowl XXII ; the edition included 44.38 pages of advertising and sold 2,114,055 copies, setting a single-day record for an American newspaper (and surpassed seven months later on September 2, when its Labor Day weekend edition sold 2,257,734 copies). On April 15, USA Today launched

9477-476: The next morning's paper. The sports section of USA Today , with its complete set of results, was well-regarded and generally seen as one of the main selling points of the paper. On July 2, 1984, the newspaper switched from predominantly black-and-white to full-color photography and graphics in all four sections. The following week, on July 10, USA Today launched an international edition intended for U.S. readers abroad, followed four months later on October 8 with

9594-482: The north end of the fairgrounds. The Minnesota State Fair is a state government-related entity that is operated by the Minnesota State Agricultural Society. The management of the fair is handled by the board of managers. The state fair has not accepted governmental funds since 1949. Revenue from the fair is reinvested into maintenance and the next year's fair. The Minnesota State Fair Foundation

9711-481: The numbering from the Civil War and they became the 12th–15th Minnesota Infantry Regiments. All four were mustered and organized on the State Fair Grounds. Camp Ramsey on Machinery Hill was the encampment site. One of the most significant dates in the fair's history was September 2, 1901, when then- Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was visiting and first uttered the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry

9828-579: The organization was changed to the Minnesota Horticultural Society, and in 1872 the Society took over management of the horticulture department at the Minnesota State Fair. In 1873, the Society incorporated under the general statutes of the state of Minnesota as the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. That same year, the Minnesota legislature approved an act that provided funds to produce and distribute 2000 copies of

9945-454: The other, called the "Big Fat Bacon", which is 0.25 pounds (0.1 kg) of maple-glazed bacon. Another staple of the state fair is “Sweet Martha’s Cookies,” a stand that serves fresh and warm chocolate chip cookies in buckets. In 2018, 27 new foods were introduced to the Minnesota State Fair including Firecracker Shrimp Stuffed Avocado, Honey Cream Soda Float, Mangonada Shaved Ice, Messy Giuseppe, Nordic Waffles, Smoked Soft Serve Ice Cream, and

10062-561: The packaging of its national and international news content and enterprise stories (comprising about 10 pages for the weekday and Saturday editions, and up to 22 pages for the Sunday edition) into the pilot insert. Gannett later announced on December 11, that it would formally launch the condensed daily edition of USA Today in 31 additional local newspapers nationwide through April 2014 (with the Palm Springs, California -based The Desert Sun and

10179-492: The paper by 1987 (according to Simmons Market Research Bureau statistics) had reached 5.5 million, the largest of any daily newspaper in the U.S. On May 6, 1986, USA Today began production of its international edition in Switzerland . USA Today operated at a loss for most of its first four years of operation, accumulating a total deficit of $ 233 million after taxes. According to figures released by Gannett in July 1987,

10296-518: The paper's inception was replaced with a new logo featuring a large circle rendered in colors corresponding to each of the sections, serving as an infographic that changes with news stories, containing images representing that day's top stories. The paper's website was also extensively overhauled using a new, in-house content management system known as Presto and a design created by Fantasy Interactive, that incorporates flipboard-style navigation to switch between individual stories (which obscure most of

10413-468: The past: the first issue released during the standard calendar weekend was published on January 19, 1991, when it released a Saturday "Extra" edition updating coverage of the Gulf War from the previous day; the paper published special seven-day-a-week editions for the first time on July 19, 1996, when it published special editions for exclusive distribution in the host city of Atlanta and surrounding areas for

10530-644: The piece was not a "qualified endorsement" of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton , for whom it was unable to reach a consensus (some editorial board members expressed that Clinton's public service record would help her "serve the nation ably as its president", while others had "serious reservations about [her] sense of entitlement, [...] lack of candor and... extreme carelessness in handling classified information "), suggesting instead tactical voting against Trump and GOP seats in swing states, advising voters to decide whether to vote for either Clinton, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson , Green Party nominee Jill Stein or

10647-565: The presses used at USA Today 's printing facilities did not yet accommodate the use of other colors to denote all four original sections. Orange is used for bonus sections (sections E+), which are published occasionally for business travel trends and the Olympics . Other bonus sections for sports (such as for the PGA Tour preview, NCAA basketball tournaments , Memorial Day auto races ( Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 ), NFL opening weekend and

10764-473: The price of $ 8,500 McFadden got 30 tons of wood and steel decorated with 68 hand carved horses, 2 chariots and an organ from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company . The Carousel became a State Fair institution that all of Minnesota thought belonged to the fair grounds. It had no sign on it indicating its ownership was not public while being installed on public land. Without any disclosure in 1988

10881-571: The resignation of John Boehner as House Speaker. It also called out then- President Barack Obama and other top members of the Democratic Party for what it perceived as "inaction" during 2013–14, particularly over the NSA scandal and the ISIL beheading incidents . The editorial board broke from its "non-endorsement" policy for the first time on September 29, 2016, when it published an op-ed piece condemning

10998-456: The rollout of the first transmission via satellite of its international version to Singapore . On April 8, 1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called "Baseball '85", which previewed the 1985 Major League Baseball season . By the fourth quarter of 1985, USA Today had become the second-largest newspaper in the United States, reaching a daily circulation of 1.4 million copies. Total daily readership of

11115-464: The separate newsroom operations of the online and print entities of USA Today , with USAToday.com's vice president and editor-in-chief Kinsey Wilson promoted to co-executive editor, alongside existing executive editor John Hillkirk. In December 2010, USA Today launched the USA Today API for sharing data with partners of all types. On August 27, 2010, USA Today announced that it would undergo

11232-611: The shows take place in the Lee & Rose Warner Coliseum , a large indoor arena on the fairgrounds. The Coliseum was constructed to replace the Hippodrome, which was rendered structurally unsound during its use as a Propeller Plant by the A.O. Smith Corporation during WWII and razed in 1946, and was completed for use in the 1951 fair. Open class livestock competitions are held in horses, beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, sheep, dairy goats, llamas , poultry (chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons) rabbits, and stock dogs . On August 31, 2007,

11349-700: The staples of the News section is "Across the USA", a state-by-state roundup of headlines. The summaries consist of paragraph-length Associated Press reports highlighting one story in each state, the District of Columbia , and one U.S. territory . Similarly, the "For the Record" page of the Sports section (which features sports scores for the previous four days of league play plus individual non-league events, seasonal league statistics and wagering lines for that day's games) previously featured

11466-432: The state like gophers. For these reasons, Minnesota is sometimes referred to as the gopher state. Fairchild, the original mascot, was suggested in a statewide contest by Gladys Anderson Brown in 1966 in honor of Henry S. Fairchild who advocated using the former Ramsey County Poor Farm as the permanent site of the fair. Dressed like an early barker on the midway with a straw hat and striped jacket, Fairchild has represented

11583-720: The state. In 2010, a total of 2,330 pieces were submitted, and 413 works were accepted. One unusual display at the fair consists of the entrants in the crop art competition. The artwork must be made of plant matter (seeds, stems, flowers, fruit, etc.) suitable for growing in Minnesota. For decades the display was dominated by Owatonna native Lillian Colton (1912–2007), who created seed portraits, professionally, having effectively captured scores of celebrities such as Ernest Hemingway , Barbra Streisand , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Prince , Princess Diana , and Willie Nelson in her crop art. After winning nine purple ribbons, she stopped competing, but continued displaying her work at

11700-426: The success of the series Ghost Factories . With differing platform requirements, USA Today's mobile website did not offer any specialized support for these multi-chapter stories. Nearing the end of 2012, more than one-third of USA Today 's readership was browsing only using their mobile phones, and the majority of these users were accessing the mobile website (as opposed to the iOS and Android applications) with

11817-525: The time. On June 11, 1981, Gannett printed the first prototypes of the proposed publication. The two proposed design layouts were mailed to newsmakers and prominent leaders in journalism for review and feedback. Gannett's board of directors approved the launch of the national newspaper, titled USA Today , on December 5, 1981. At launch, Neuharth was appointed president and publisher of the newspaper, adding those responsibilities to his existing position as Gannett's chief executive officer . Gannett announced

11934-748: The top ten singles in general on Wednesdays. Because of the same limitations as its nationalized forecasts, the television page in Life, which provides prime time and late night listings (running from 8:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Eastern Time ), incorporates boilerplate " Local news " or " Local programming " descriptions to denote time periods in which the five major English language broadcast networks ( ABC , NBC , CBS , Fox and The CW ) cede airtime to allow their owned and affiliated stations to carry syndicated programs or local newscasts. The television page has never carried local scheduling information similar to those in local newspapers. Like most national papers, USA Today has no comic strips . One of

12051-438: The two-week duration of the 1996 Summer Olympics . USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the respective section, with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a longer story that requires a jump (readers must turn to another page in the paper to complete the story, usually the next page of that section). On certain days, the news or sports section, will take up two paper sections, and there will be

12168-573: The venture also provided integration with the USA Today website, which transitioned from a text-based format to feature audio and video clips of news content. The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15, 2000, in Milan , Italy , followed on July 10 by the launch of an international printing facility in Charleroi, Belgium . In 2001, two interactive units were launched: on June 19, USA Today and Gannett Newspapers launched

12285-400: The world, breaking from the traditional style of monochrome contouring or simplistic text to denote temperature ranges. National precipitation maps for the next three days (the next five days before the 2012 redesign) and four-day forecasts and air quality indexes for 36 major U.S. cities (16 cities prior to 1999), with individual cities color-coded by the temperature contour corresponding to

12402-400: The world. Gannett invested in an expensive network of printing factories and distribution during the rollout of USA Today , meaning that the paper could be printed and distributed quickly. One of the results of this was USA Today having the luxury of a later time cutoff for journalists to submit stories, such that the paper was able to include sports scores from games that finished late in

12519-595: The year's most popular cat videos and memes and award the best videos with cat trophies, the most prized being the Golden Kitty. Guest appearances have included Grumpy Cat and Lil Bub , two internet stars, as well as the creator of Nyan Cat , Christopher Torres. The fair displays an annual art exhibition that is the result of a juried competition of works of fine art . Media include watercolor, oil, and acrylic paintings, photographs, sculptures, pastels, ceramics, glass, and textiles. Entrants must be living residents of

12636-543: The younger city of the pair, eventually outdid its neighbor by staging the larger fair with the help of William S. King . In 1884, a committee was put together by the Minnesota State Agricultural Society to select a permanent site. One site that was considered was an area around Minnehaha Falls , but the final site chosen was the Ramsey County Poor Farm , the fair's current site. It was

12753-476: Was ANGRY BIRDS UNIVERSE: THE EXHIBITION. The State Fair hosts concerts, comedy shows, product demonstrations , the State Fair Talent Contest and other shows. The Grandstand is a large outdoor concert venue that also features three floors of interior exhibition space. It hosts the largest of the fair's concerts and until 2002 was also the site of stock car races run on a small oval track. In 2003

12870-515: Was Brian Gallagher, who has worked for the newspaper since its founding. Other members of the editorial board included deputy editorial page editor Bill Sternberg, executive forum editor John Siniff, op-ed/forum page editor Glen Nishimura, operations editor Thuan Le Elston, letters editor Michelle Poblete, web content editor Eileen Rivers, and editorial writers Dan Carney, George Hager, and Saundra Torry. The newspaper's website calls this group "demographically and ideologically diverse." Beginning with

12987-525: Was first conceived on February 29, 1980, when a company task force known as "Project NN" met with the then-chairman of Gannett , Al Neuharth , in Cocoa Beach, Florida . Early regional prototypes of USA Today included East Bay Today , an Oakland, California -based publication published in the late 1970s to serve as the morning edition of the Oakland Tribune , an afternoon newspaper that Gannett owned at

13104-616: Was held on several dates in October. To make up for 2020's cancellation, the fair management hosted its first-ever spring event entitled "Kickoff To Summer" featuring scaled-back concessions and attractions. It also served as a test to the fair's eventual return in 2021. The "Kickoff to Summer" event returned in 2022 after positive reception in 2021. A large portion of the Fairgrounds are occupied by livestock barns where various farm animals are displayed. The animals and their owners take part in livestock shows to compete for awards. Most of

13221-594: Was internally known within Gannett as the "Butterfly" initiative) for distribution as an insert in four of its newspapers – The Indianapolis Star , the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle , the Fort Myers -based The News-Press and the Appleton, Wisconsin -based The Post-Crescent . The launch of the syndicated insert caused USA Today to restructure its operations to allow seven-day-a-week production to accommodate

13338-431: Was named the best state fair in the United States in 2015 by readers of USA Today . The fair runs for twelve days from late August into early September, ending on Labor Day . Around two million people attend the fair annually. Attendance in 2019 was a record 2,126,551 people. The highest daily attendance in the history of the fair was 270,426 visitors on Saturday, September 1, 2018. Minnesota Territory first held

13455-702: Was opened and dedicated in 1939 and about 320,000 state fairgoers visit it every year. The non-livestock projects include photography, performing arts, crafts, food & nutrition, and clothing & textiles. In recent years the Progress Center has been housing the Eco Experience exhibit, which features activities and exhibits including the design and construction of an eco-friendly house, a rain garden , exhibits addressing climate change , energy conservation , renewable energy , biodiesel fuel and vehicles, and organic farming . The exhibit has received awards from

13572-507: Was the first tax-supported fruit breeding station in the U.S. The station’s superintendent was Peter Gideon, creator of the Wealthy apple. In 1883, the Society established its own system of experiment stations for growing seedlings and testing new varieties of fruit trees, with various stations created throughout Minnesota. In 1919 the Society moved its headquarters from Minneapolis to the St. Paul campus of

13689-454: Was well over a million people and the record day that year was about 197,000 visitors. By 2016, attendance neared 2 million and the record day was about a quarter-million people. 2018 was another record year for the Fair. The overall attendance record of 2,046,533 was set along with an all-time single-day attendance record of 270,426 on the second Saturday. Since 1859, the fair has run annually except for six different years. In 1861 and 1862,

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