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Amazon is about to walk through your door

If you can't trust the Amazon delivery person inside your home, who can you trust, America?
by Bob Collins

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Bemidji teen plays three sports at once

Kids are being forced to give up multiple sports to concentrate on a single sport all year. They're sent off to 'camps' to be better at their chosen or appointed sport, all the better to make the team. That's not Linaes Whiting's thing.
by Bob Collins

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Are we welcoming?

Are we welcoming?

A proposed ban on refugees in St. Cloud forces us to examine the question, ''what does it mean to say 'welcome' in Minnesota?''
by Bob Collins

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Are you ready to pay for carry-on?

Unless there's a future announcement involving a significant reduction in fares, it's hard to see how Sun Country Airlines' new baggage fee policy does much more than encourage people not to fly Sun Country anymore.
by Bob Collins

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Go ahead, insult us and make our day

Go ahead, insult us and make our day

If there's one thing we love in Minnesota, it's being insulted and outraged and Pulitzer Prize winner David Fahrenthold‏ of the Washington Post provided our reason for living today with this tweet promoting an appearance in Washington with Bob Woodward, who once did something big for the Post.
by Bob Collins

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Mothers, fathers, and the kids caught in the middle

Every now and again, we read a Minnesota Court of Appeals case involving warring parents and their child caught in the middle, and we wonder how it will ever be possible for a child to survive the damage of warring parents.
by Bob Collins

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Cub Scout gets tossed for daring to ask pol a tough question

As someone who was also kicked out of Cub Scouts (apparently I didn't take the threat of my peers in the Soviet Union seriously), I feel you Ames Mayfield.
by Bob Collins

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Timberwolves take a giant step forward

Timberwolves take a giant step forward

Andrew Wiggins hit the last-second shot after the Oklahoma City Thunder tied the game with a few seconds to go, an invitation for the Timberewolves of years past to pack it in.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: The father

1,000 Words: The father

It was all party last night for Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who beat the Chicago Cubs for the National League pennant and a trip to the World Series sponsored by Who Really Cares Anyway? [tm]
by Bob Collins

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