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50 states, 50 lawns

50 states, 50 lawns

Rodney Smith Jr., an Alabama A&M student, thinks the path to a better life for people is behind a lawnmower. He started Raising Men Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Al., which uses kids age 7 to 17 to mow the lawns of people who can't.
by Bob Collins

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When bad data becomes good news

When bad data becomes good news

Take some data from Google, add a map, and voila! You're in the news.
by Bob Collins

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Kathy Griffin and the nature of real forgiveness

Kathy Griffin and the nature of real forgiveness

After taking a stand for forgiveness, Sen. Al Franken couldn't withstand the pressure to cancel an appearance with Kathy Griffin, the comedian who was stupid enough to be photographed holding a bloodied head that obviously was meant to portray President Donald Trump.
by Bob Collins

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An addict, a drug court, and a son who wouldn’t give up on his mother

If ever there was a stroke of brilliance in Minnesota, it was the moment someone thought to create drug courts to help people get rid of their addiction, rather than sending them to jail or prison.
by Bob Collins

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It’s Friday and the Twins turned a triple play

What's more rare these days than the Twins staying within 10 runs of their opponents? A triple play. Even better: An around-the-horn triple play.
by Bob Collins

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Body-shaming the new Snow White

Body-shaming the new Snow White

In the category of 'out of touch with 2017', few are so deserving of ridicule as the people who make their living in the advertising business, consistently cranking out material that offends people and then claiming they had no idea it would.
by Bob Collins

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Newspaper retracts story over ‘unverified quotes’

The role of an internship at a news organization is to learn the business and a Sioux Falls intern may be about to learn an important lesson: Don't make up quotes.
by Bob Collins

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Doing the right thing costs Marshall golfer

Kaylee Gossen, a junior from Marshall, could've just kept quiet and she'd be on her way to the state high school golf tournament. But that's not the way it works for high school golfers.
by Bob Collins

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You’re either pro-covfefe or you’re not

It's a sign of the times when even a jumbled bunch of letters in a tweet split the country in half.
by Bob Collins

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What’s wrong with democracy?

It will come as no surprise to you, perhaps, that it's not working well at the moment, either nationally or locally. In Minnesota, for example, legislators are shocked -- shocked -- that Gov. Dayton responded to a sneaky poison pill in budget bills that forced him to sign them, by going low in his own way: stripping funding for the Legislature. See you in court.
by Bob Collins

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