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Are the Lynx the most successful pro franchise in MN history?

Are the Lynx the most successful pro franchise in MN history?

I am told that a member of the MPR News audience called the newsroom today to scold the organization for not indicating that the Minnesota Lynx are the most successful professional franchise in Minnesota sports history. At least until this time next year, there's a good reason for that: they're not.
by Bob Collins

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The slippery slope of regulating the internet

Sen. Amy Klobuchar said she was ready for NPR Morning Edition host David Greene's obvious question this morning after she outlined her plan for government oversight of part of the Internet.
by Bob Collins

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In 2017 an NFL QB is amused there are female sportswriters

It might be easy to dismiss the comments of an NFL quarterback toward a female sportswriter this week. He's a football player and you know how they are. Locker room talk.
by Bob Collins

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A championship, champagne, and the boss

Who among us hasn't wanted to pour something on the head of the boss?
by Bob Collins

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Michigan woman goes to jail for not immunizing son

In Michigan, parents are allowed to avoid having their children immunized if it conflicts with their religious or personal beliefs. But Rebecca Bredow is going to jail anyway because she reneged on a deal with her ex-husband to have their 9-year-old son vaccinated.
by Bob Collins

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Media ‘feeding frenzy’ did not influence jury in murder trial, court rules

By most accounts Thomas Sonnenberg was a Good Samaritan; that's how Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman characterized him at a press conference, and that's how most media in the Twin Cities characterized him.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: Club 35W

1,000 Words: Club 35W

City Pages today has the story behind this photo, posted to Twitter last week, of a man hitting the hottest new club in the Twin Cities: an empty I-35W.
by Bob Collins

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Father of daughter shot in Las Vegas not mad at gunman

Father of daughter shot in Las Vegas not mad at gunman

'I'm a Second Amendment person. The weapon didn't do it. It was the person behind it,' the man said at his daughter's bedside.
by Bob Collins

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Russ Ringsak drove A Prairie Home Companion to fame

Russ Ringsak drove A Prairie Home Companion to fame

A Prairie Home Companion and its various guests and stars would've been mere marooned nobodies without Russ Ringsak; he drove the truck, known to hard-core APHC fans as 'Hank'. He was one of the original members of the troupe, and in many ways the only thing that distinguished his talent from Garrison Keillor's was a CDL. Ringsak died today, Prairie Home Productions confirmed.
by Bob Collins

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Rice Lake musky photo mystery solved

Louie Spray, of Rice Lake, Wis., once owned the Wisconsin musky record — three times. His picture disappeared from a Milwaukee diner where it had occupied a place of honor over a urinal.
by Bob Collins

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