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A funeral at home plate
They said goodbye to Billy Noss yesterday in Eau Claire in a fitting reminder to the rest of us that the glue that makes a community a better place is anyone overflowing with niceness.
Beargrease to cut its nearly 400-mile race length
It's a recognition that the race's boom times probably aren't coming back with a 373-mile race that evokes a historic route for transporting mail.
No doubt parental expectations have kept the therapists' appointment calendar full but commencement season provides proof that if you expect and demand more of kids, they'll usually deliver.
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
The NCAA has relented on its longstanding opposition to allowing tournaments in states where sports gambling is allowed; not that it had much of a choice following this week's Supreme Court decision striking down laws against sports bookmaking anywhere but Vegas.
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Goodbye, Nick Coleman
'I don't think it's just a printing press for making money,' the former columnist said of his medium of choice. 'It's supposed to be some kind of higher calling to be in this business, or you might as well be doing something else that has shorter hours and better benefits.'