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When politics uses Jesus ‘as a weapon’

Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican from rural Pennsylvania, insists she was just praying when she led the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Monday in what appeared to be a broadside against non-Christians.
by Bob Collins

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Hope for a hopeless world: Ayd Mill Road to get makeover

Hope for a hopeless world: Ayd Mill Road to get makeover

Ayd Mill Road is a metaphor for the entire transportation policy of Minnesota. For decades, it's been a road in search of a vision. With officials and residents unable to agree on one, it collapses under the weight of its own existence.
by Bob Collins

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Special Olympians pay for America’s red ink

The nation is awash in red ink, a path hastened by President Trump's tax cuts in 2018. It was pretty much a given that subsequent budgets would have to pay for the giveaway through cuts to those with the least political power, but the announcement this week that the administration will whack support for Special Olympics still took people by surprise and a fair amount of disgust.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News – 3/27/19

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

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Neat trick: People want news coverage. They don’t want to pay for it

Neat trick: People want news coverage. They don’t want to pay for it

It's really not that people don't want solid news reporting; they just don't want to pay for it and they're going to keep that insistence, apparently, until it becomes a moot point. Soon.
by Bob Collins

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A tip of the hat to the people who tow your car

It's been a tough year to be a tow truck driver. Few people think kindly of the people who haul their cars away during snow emergencies. They're just doing their jobs, people. So it's good to see one getting a little love for a simple act of concern and kindness.
by Bob Collins

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Don’t drive with a pig on your lap

Don’t drive with a pig on your lap

Now that the state is on the eve of banning the handheld use of cellphones, let's talk pig, specifically driving with a pig on your lap.
by Bob Collins

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Baseball returns just when we need it most

We’re certainly aware that it’s fashionable these days to proclaim baseball an irrelevant and dying sport, with its staid traditions and constant stories of connecting parents, grandparents, and children. That, we will argue, is the strength it has left and to prove it, we point today to Jim Walsh’s excellent story in Southwest Journal about…
by Bob Collins

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Is gymnastics the best sport ever? Or the worst?

Is gymnastics the best sport ever? Or the worst?

Former WCCO anchor Jamie Yuccas' interview this morning with UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi captures perfectly the contradictory nature of her sport to outsiders.
by Bob Collins

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Show us your property tax statement

Show us your property tax statement

The annual NewsCut tradition -- our 10th and last -- is underway with the arrival of your property tax statement, that completely indecipherable calculation that leads to the bottom line.
by Bob Collins

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