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School’s out. Is your Internet ready?

School’s out. Is your Internet ready?

School's out! It's a time to get inside and play!
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: When the weather makes us dumb

1,000 Words: When the weather makes us dumb

I suppose this image in the Star Tribune's Metro section today was supposed to show us the sheer force of the wind during yesterday's storms. Instead, it makes me wonder what you people were thinking?
by Bob Collins

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A Trumpian Caesar is too hot for corporations

A Trumpian Caesar is too hot for corporations

Et tu, Delta? The airline has become the latest underwriter of New York's Shakespeare in the Park to pull its sponsorship over a production of Julius Caesar.
by Bob Collins

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After clear-cutting trees, Mac Hammond ordered to restore bluff

A case of clear-cutting trees along the Mississippi River in Crow Wing County shows that times are still pretty good for 'Mac' Hammond, the megachurch owner and preacher of the prosperity gospel.
by Bob Collins

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A mother’s rollercoaster ride as her son returns to prison

It's been hard for people to dismiss or turn away from Nick Briner's story, which his mother began telling just before he got out of prison last year and she was weighing what to do. People pull for her. People pull for her son. And that's just how it should be.
by Bob Collins

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After an arrest in a killing, cops attend victim’s friend’s high school graduation

He had no family to attend the graduation and his friend Keyira Nunn, 17, a junior at the school, was shot and killed in a shooting late last Friday afternoon. She died at the scene. So yesterday afternoon, a day after arresting a suspect in the killing, the two investigators for the the St. Paul Police Department attended the commencement, accompanied St. Paul Police Senior Cmdr. Tina McNamara, who heads the homicide unit.
by Bob Collins

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How a hug at Dachau changed a generation of lives

How a hug at Dachau changed a generation of lives

Steve Ross, born in Poland, was in Dachau when it was liberated by American troops. He was 14 and near death when an Army lieutenant jumped from his tank, gave him a hug and some of his food. It was a brief encounter that propelled Ross to become a social worker in Boston, helping troubled youth.
by Bob Collins

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Apologizing is a man’s game

Apologizing is a man’s game

Of four people who survived offensive actions by issuing an apology, three survived. All were men. The woman was a different story. Coincidence?
by Bob Collins

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Boat vs. St. Croix Lift Bridge

We're not proud of the fact that we take a certain satisfaction that in the battle between the Stillwater Lift Bridge and pretty nice boat on the St. Croix River, the bridge won.
by Bob Collins

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