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This year’s basketball star is a 98-year-old woman in a wheelchair

This year’s basketball star is a 98-year-old woman in a wheelchair

In a perfect world, someone will lift Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, wheelchair and all, to cut down the net after Loyola wins the NCAA basketball championship next week. Non-fans would be hard pressed to name any of the teams left in the annual celebration of college basketball but the world loves the devoted and loyal and…
by Bob Collins

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Duluth nears mandatory paid sick leave

The Duluth City Council has become ground zero in Minnesota for the debate over whether businesses should be required to provide paid sick leave.
by Bob Collins

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Cooper girls get their rings

Cooper girls get their rings

The Cooper High School girls basketball team won its first state championship ever 10 days ago. After the win, the girls were handed a catalog of championship rings and thought they could pick one out. Then they found out the rings cost $300 each. They couldn't afford them.
by Bob Collins

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Do we still need the United Way?

At one time the United Way was a staple of charitable giving; you filled out a pledge card at the beginning of the year (usually under pressure from the boss as I recall from my early working days), the money was deducted from your paycheck, and the United Way took care of the rest, vetting the organizations who wanted and needed some of the money.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News today? 3/27/18

Here are the topics and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
by Bob Collins

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Laws of physics get tested — again — on area lakes.

Laws of physics get tested — again — on area lakes.

The laws of physics continue to get a good workout on the area lakes and truck drivers continue to test whether ice is still thick enough to drive on.
by Bob Collins

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Two Minnesota counties among nation’s healthiest

Two Minnesota counties among nation’s healthiest

US News claims to use 80 indicators across 10 categories that drive health outcomes. 'Population health and equity are the most heavily weighted categories, based on the assessments of more than a dozen leading experts on what matters most to a community’s health,' it says.
by Bob Collins

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The world’s music man dead at 78

The world’s music man dead at 78

Jose Antonio Abreu, who took the kids from Venezuela's shanty towns and taught them how to be world-class musicians, changed kids' lives. He died on Saturday.
by Bob Collins

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A Facebook reckoning

A Facebook reckoning

Facebook is denying that it has kept track of your text messages and phone calls without your knowledge if you use an Android phone. Oh, they've done that, mind you. But Facebook says it told you.
by Bob Collins

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Flat-earth man launches rocket, lands with a thud

Flat-earth man launches rocket, lands with a thud

Who could possibly have guessed that Mike Hughes' attempt to prove the earth is flat by launching himself in a steam-powered rocket would end this way?
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