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From outside the bubble, it’s a big country

From outside the bubble, it’s a big country

When a newspaper in a small Iowa community won a Pulitzer Prize a few weeks ago, it earned justifiable attention and some that, frankly, bordered on the condescending from the big city media. Of course, great journalism can be done more than a day's drive from the nearest ocean. And lots of other smart things can happen away from the coasts too.
by Bob Collins

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Not good when Netflix, not parents, takes on ‘the talk’

Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' is a popular series that is getting some credit for at least bringing up the issue of teen suicide, which is a sad testament to how unable or how unwilling parents are to talk about the second-leading killer of young adults.
by Bob Collins

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When you catch a baseball

When you catch a baseball

There is joy, and then there is the unbridled joy when you catch a homerun at a baseball game. Or so we imagine.
by Bob Collins

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Roundabouts spread on the Iron Range

Roundabouts spread on the Iron Range

The Iron Range is about to learn what metro drivers have finally figured out. Roundabouts aren't so bad.
by Bob Collins

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Return of the ‘piano drop’ is a smashing success at MIT

Return of the ‘piano drop’ is a smashing success at MIT

Up until last year, students at MIT, recognizing the gravity of tradition, tossed a piano off a dorm roof each spring for more than 40 years. Why? Because they could.
by Bob Collins

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The worst job? It’s still ‘newspaper reporter’, survey says

The worst job? It’s still ‘newspaper reporter’, survey says

In the latest list, the newspaper reporter job retains its title, while 'broadcaster' leapfrogs over 'logger" into second place. But are these really the worst jobs? Not likely.
by Bob Collins

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Worthington Daily Globe gives up on daily newspaper

Worthington Daily Globe gives up on daily newspaper

Since 1872, the Worthington Daily Globe has been a daily newspaper, except for Sunday. Those days are over.
by Bob Collins

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School trap-shooting team photo banned from yearbook

School trap-shooting team photo banned from yearbook

The Big Lake school board will meet tonight and they most certainly will remove a roadblock preventing the Big Lake High School's trap shooting team photo from appearing in the yearbook. This, of course, assumes there's a shred of common sense in Big Lake.
by Bob Collins

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Thirty years on, a search for a cheerleader’s photo

Janis Thompson is being inducted into the North Dakota High School Track and Field Hall of Fame next month. She was a top sprinter. She was also a cheerleader whose death at North Dakota State in 1986 made schools take another look at the stunts cheerleaders were attempting.
by Bob Collins

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