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Little buzz for Olympic hockey this year

Little buzz for Olympic hockey this year

Even in Canada, the country of hockey, it's asking a lot to expect people to stay up to or get up at 3 a.m. to watch an Olympic hockey game, but the CBC says that's what you get by having the Olympics in South Korea this year. Even bars seem to be throwing in the towel.
by Bob Collins

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End of the road for Mounds View’s mermaid

End of the road for Mounds View’s mermaid

There's nothing that can't stir up people. A 60-foot mermaid's demise? Easy pickings.
by Bob Collins

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The sun sets on ‘Violet Days’

The sun sets on ‘Violet Days’

For the last 15 years or so, the comic, a commentary on life in Minnesota, has run in the Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune, but cartoonist Chris Monroe, a Duluth native, says she's finished.
by Bob Collins

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Professor apologizes for wishing Trump dead

If you're smart enough to become a university professor, you ought to be smart enough not to wish the president of the United States dead when giving a lecture.
by Bob Collins

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In wage gap protest, a higher price for men

In wage gap protest, a higher price for men

Madeline Price really stirred things up a couple of years ago on the campus of the University of Queensland to educate people about Australia's pay disparity. She held a bake sale and charged men more. Why not? They make more.
by Bob Collins

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UW football’s secret weapon is a 6-year-old

The University of Wisconsin added a pretty solid class of recruits on National Signing Day, but didn't have everything they needed until they signed 6-year-old Nolan Faust to the squad.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News today? 2/8/18

What’s on MPR News today? 2/8/18

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

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Death of a kind man

Death of a kind man

Actor Kelsey Grammer tweeted the perfect message in honor of John Mahoney, the actor who played his elderly father on the TV series Frasier. Mahoney, who died Sunday, was just 53 when he started playing the part that endeared him so much to the audience that his death this week has elicited a reaction not usually given to supporting actors.
by Bob Collins

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The dying of the ‘community’ paper

The identity of small towns is disappearing in a cloud of regional newspaper mush intended to 'relevant' to an audience across communities.
by Bob Collins

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