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A teacher who lifts his students calls it a career

Dennis Schreiber didn't grow up wanting to be a teacher. He wasn't drawn to it. He just thought he'd give it a try. There's a lesson there somewhere.
by Bob Collins

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Blimp crashes at Wisconsin golf tournament

Blimp crashes at Wisconsin golf tournament

The blimp belonged to the Air Sign Company, an aerial advertising company.
by Bob Collins

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At a fork in a road, Wisconsin family closes its farm

At a fork in a road, Wisconsin family closes its farm

Yesterday, the auctioneer showed up in Arkansaw, Wisc., -- near Durand in Pepin County -- and by lunch, 62 cows at Patnode Lane Holsteins were gone. Weston and Jenni Patnode were out of business after four generations on the land.
by Bob Collins

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America is ignorant about its food

America is ignorant about its food

There are times when we wish the news given to us was fake, but, sadly, today's blockbuster from the Washington Post is not.
by Bob Collins

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MnDOT apologizes for desecrating cemetery in bridge project’s way

It's not hard to figure out why the Minnesota Department of Transportation desecrated a cemetery when working on Minnesota Highway 23? MnDOT says in five years of planning for the replacement of the Mission Creek Bridge in Duluth, there was no part of the process that called for consulting with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
by Bob Collins

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Student denied diploma for not reading speech principal wrote

Student denied diploma for not reading speech principal wrote

Marvin Wright, of Southwest Edgecombe High in Pinetops, N.C., showed why he's the president of his graduating class when he told school administrators through his actions what they could do with the speech they told him to deliver instead of the one he wrote.
by Bob Collins

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Can we talk about dying?

The Owatonna area is one of the first out-state communities to participate in a push to get people to complete advance directives. But only about 10 percent of people have advance directives, guidelines for dying, in their medical files, according to David Albrecht, president of Owatonna Hospital.
by Bob Collins

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Anti-racist resolution gets some Baptists hot under the collar

Anti-racist resolution gets some Baptists hot under the collar

Is there a language that's too strong to use when condemning white supremacy? The Southern Baptists thought so this week until yesterday when they formally condemned '"every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as of the devil.'
by Bob Collins

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Minneapolis Fed boss goes it alone

Minneapolis Fed boss goes it alone

The economy is garbage, except on paper, for many people but Fed Chair Janet Yellen pushed for the rate increase saying the fundamentals of the U.S. economy warrant it. She sees it as a way to keep inflation at bay. Neel Kashkari sees a different economy, which is interesting because the economy of Minnesota and surrounding states has been better than the rest of the country.
by Bob Collins

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