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13 reasons not to take your own life

13 reasons not to take your own life

School officials in Minnesota and around the country have warned parents to talk to their kids about the Netflix series, '13 Reasons Why.' A Catholic school in Canada has warned its students not to talk about the series at all. In Michigan, some students have a better idea.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: Death of a Ferguson protest icon

When police in Ferguson, Missouri launched tear gas into the crowd protesting the police shooting there in 2014, Edward Crawford, then 25, went for a cannister and threw it back and kept ahold of his bag of chips.
by Bob Collins

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Ad campaign theme of mothers who swear is aimed at millennials

We'll cop to swearing as much as the next blogger, but Kraft Macaroni and Cheese's new campaign to capitalize on America's most overrated 'holiday' is making us blush a bit.
by Bob Collins

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Veterans illustrate the problem of homelessness in La Crosse

It's a shameful feeling you might get when you read the story of Brian Johnson and his friends, who are surrounded by old bikes in the woods along the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wis.
by Bob Collins

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His family left behind, Willmar man shipped to a country he doesn’t know

Souen 'Posy' Chheng was put on a flight to Cambodia yesterday, the West Central Tribune reports. He's never been to Cambodia. He has no family there. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after his family fled the killing fields of Cambodia. He leaves behind the son who was born five days ago, his wife, his mother, two sisters, and a brother living in the Twin Cities.
by Bob Collins

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Racist is banned from baseball park for life

Racist is banned from baseball park for life

After the uproar this week when a player for the Baltimore Orioles reported he was the target of racist epithets at Boston's Fenway Park, some fans gave Adam Jones a standing ovation the next night. Heartwarming stuff. Everything cool now? Nope. You can't clap racism away.
by Bob Collins

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Your pre-existing condition may be waiting for you, too

Your pre-existing condition may be waiting for you, too

Nora McInerny, who now hosts the American Public Media podcast, "Terrible, Thanks For Asking" brings us back to an earlier time in the health care debate -- when it was more disconnected from the political calculus than it is now. When people didn't toast the misfortune of the sick. Her Twitter thread today is a good dose of the reality that exists outside the Beltway.
by Bob Collins

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Couple removed from airline flight for… oh, what does it matter anymore?

The latest tale of suffering aboard an airline in the United States today comes from Brian and Brittany Schear of Huntington Beach, California, who were tossed off a Delta flight because they wanted one of their toddlers to sit in a seat they originally purchased for their teenage son, who instead took an earlier flight.
by Bob Collins

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Dying man racing time to deliver bikes to kids

Dying man racing time to deliver bikes to kids

In Springfield, Mass., Bob Charland, 44, is dying. He's a mechanic with a neurodegenerative brain disease.
by Bob Collins

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