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Years late, Code Talkers to be honored

The old-timers who served in World War II tended not to talk about what they did. Too bad, because it deprived families from a fuller picture of their lives.
by Bob Collins

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Go home, America

It is a given problem in small-town America that the best and the brighest get out as soon as they can. They head for the city to make their future while their hometowns — rural America — decline. The role of college professors, J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, notes in an op-ed in the…
by Bob Collins

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From Siberia to gubernatorial ‘savior’

The Rochester Post Bulletin today carries the story that easily fits in the 'ain't life interesting' category, unless you're not awestruck by the notion that a family escapes a gulag in Siberia and, because it did, a doctor becomes the 'savior' of the governor of Minnesota.
by Bob Collins

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Kirby Puckett fades into obscurity

Kirby Puckett fades into obscurity

Puckett owned this town once, but now he's barely even a memory. He would have turned 57 today.
by Bob Collins

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Road rage and the St. Paul cyclist

The cyclist-driver gulf may never be bridged.
by Bob Collins

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Your daily dose of adorable

Your daily dose of adorable

We will always drop whatever we're doing on NewsCut when adorable comes along and though we provided an update yesterday on Robert Kelly and his family -- the guy who was on the BBC when his daughter came into his home office -- the adorb-o-meter was pinned again today when the family held its news conference to get the media off its back so they can get back to normalcy.
by Bob Collins

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Civic duty a challenge for nursing mothers

Civic duty a challenge for nursing mothers

A Minneapolis woman has found that doing one's civic duty can be pretty rough on nursing mothers.
by Bob Collins

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A win for the Oxford comma

The Oxford comma -- also known as a serial comma -- will soon be extinct and a lot of people would like to make a federal case out of it. Someone has.
by Bob Collins

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