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March 20, 2017 1:31 AM

Fourth-graders learn robotics and racism

It happened to the Pleasant Run Panther Bots, who had just won the competition near Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Star reports. Two on the team are African American, three are Latino. After they won, students and parents reportedly told them to 'Go back to Mexico.'

by Bob Collins

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March 17, 2017 11:37 AM

Funeral held for man who isn’t dead

Perhaps the best time to have a funeral is while we're still alive.

by Bob Collins

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March 17, 2017 11:34 AM

Welcome to Llanfairpw…gogogoch

Because it's Friday, that's why.

by Bob Collins

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March 17, 2017 9:14 AM

Did you search Google for Douglas of Edina?

Using Google today? The cops may be watching.

by Bob Collins

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March 17, 2017 6:53 AM

Clinton keeps its cafe

Exhale, Clinton, Minn., -- population 433 -- your cafe survives.

by Bob Collins

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March 17, 2017 3:53 AM

Why I volunteered for Super Bowl week

Twenty-five years ago today, I showed up at Minnesota Public Radio for my first job interview. I knew nothing, really, about Minnesota other than Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, Garrison Keillor, and a meatpacker strike that killed a classmate who was covering it for ABC News. I wasn’t sure if the fact that I…

by Bob Collins

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March 17, 2017 3:33 AM

The power of the leprechaun

StoryCorps' Friday morning episode today provides some great advice: If you want results, dress like a leprechaun.

by Bob Collins

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March 17, 2017 1:40 AM

Minnesota sends love — and hay — to wildfire victims

These are tough times in the nation's breadbasket. Commodity prices are down, and when a wildfire swept through sections of Kansas a little over a week ago, it devastated entire farm communities and killed livestock. So a Minnesota woman is sending hay.

by Bob Collins