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A recipe from a Pi Day curmudgeon

A recipe from a Pi Day curmudgeon

3.14 The one day of the year math gets a little respect.
by Bob Collins

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Moose Lake teen wins high school spirit award

Moose Lake teen wins high school spirit award

Like most other students at Moose Lake, a school with only 184 students, Daniel Lilya plays a variety of sports. Unlike those other students, however, Lilya was born with a broken back, is a paraplegic, and has been confined to a wheelchair his entire life.
by Bob Collins

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Speak no ill of Prince

Speak no ill of Prince

Thoughts and prayers this afternoon go out to the social media manager of Vice, who bit the bullet and posted this tweet today to promote an article.
by Bob Collins

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Cancer claims Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Author Amy Krouse Rosenthal has died, a little more than a week after she tried to find a new spouse for her husband.
by Bob Collins

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Court of Appeals rejects suit alleging state promotes school segregation

Court of Appeals rejects suit alleging state promotes school segregation

The lawsuit asserted that children of color have not received a quality education and that '[s]chool children in public schools throughout the State of Minnesota, including the City of Minneapolis, the City of Saint Paul, and their adjacent suburban communities, are largely segregated by race and socioeconomic status.'
by Bob Collins

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There’s no fixing the time-change crisis

This is the time of the year when Arizona is one of the smartest states in the nation. Arizona doesn't spring forward or fall back. It leaves its clocks alone.
by Bob Collins

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A photojournalist who changed the world retires

A photojournalist who changed the world retires

Although they get credit in captions, photojournalists work in comparative obscurity.
by Bob Collins

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Where are the volunteers?

The food shelf in Hibbing is closing for good this month. It's run out of volunteers.
by Bob Collins

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This year’s hockey-hair team: Flowetry in motion

This year’s hockey-hair team: Flowetry in motion

I had vowed this year that I would not succumb to the allure of the Minnesota State High School Tournament hockey-hair team that John King puts together every year. Like the Macarena, as soon as the media became obsessed with the thing, it was past time to move on.
by Bob Collins

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Don’t like a law? Just ignore it

Surdyk's decision to flaunt the law isn't much different from preachers who endorse political candidates from the pulpit, daring the federal government to do something about (it usually doesn't).
by Bob Collins

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