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Truckers launch snow/ice bombs on other drivers

Trucks. It's always the trucks causing the havoc on Minnesota highways after a storm. The trucks sit out in the blizzards, accumulating an armory of ice and snow and then hit the highways with predictable results, as a Dakota County ranger learned anew.
by Bob Collins

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Carl Kasell, dead at 84

Personality, comedy, and the buttoned-down world of serious public radio were never really friends until Kasell proved you could be both a serious news person and funny.
by Bob Collins

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Former Minn. congressman in stormy waters at UND

Mark Kennedy was only 20 months into the job when he applied for an opening for president at the University of Central Florida, a job that paid more and wasn't located in Grand Forks. If you're going to apply for a job 20 months after getting one in North Dakota, you better get it.
by Bob Collins

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Here’s what Sun Country could’ve done to treat its passengers better

The Cranky Flier -- Brett Snyder -- today gives the airline his Cranky Jackass Award because it abandoned its customers in another country, and is still trying to talk its way out of responsibility for doing so.
by Bob Collins

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A blizzard couldn’t stop a wedding

Because Mother Nature won't cut us a break, there's nothing we need more than the warm feeling of love conquering all, especially Mother Nature.
by Bob Collins

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