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Here’s 48 minutes of ice stacking on Lake Superior

Take one big lake, add some warm temperatures, and finish it off with wind and, voila! You've got a show.
by Bob Collins

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Couple doesn’t let pub closing stop first-date tradition

Kris and Mike Gutierrez, of Menomonee Falls, Wis., had their first date in 1994 at John Hawks Pub in Milwaukee. And because love is grand, they go there every March 25th to celebrate what a first date can beget.
by Bob Collins

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How does insurance work? Ask a woman

How does insurance work? Ask a woman

The best thing about asking a question -- especially a stupid question -- is that there are plenty of people who'll gladly answer it, and make you look even more foolish in the process.
by Bob Collins

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Kids interrupt father’s BBC interview

Kids interrupt father’s BBC interview

Robert Kelly, a professor of political science at Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea, and an expert on South Korea, had a lot of interesting things to say during his BBC interview on the subject today. And nobody remembers a single thing he said.
by Bob Collins

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Wisconsin sweeps cheese championship

Wisconsin sweeps cheese championship

What do you say when you win the cheese championship? You thank the cows.
by Bob Collins

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69 years of MN hockey tournament for Texas man

Life is good -- so far -- at the venerable Minnesota high school hockey tournament. The private schools are getting knocked off -- should've spent less time working on the hair, perhaps -- and the Moorhead Spuds -- the greatest team name in all of sports -- are moving on.
by Bob Collins

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On the power of words

Today's moment of sweetness comes from PBS NewsHour, whose "Brief but Spectacular" segments encapsule everything good about public TV. Last evening's segment featured writer Kelly Corrigan whose father got cancer around the time Corrigan was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer.
by Bob Collins

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Sixty-three years ago today, Murrow’s moment set a standard

Sixty-three years ago tonight (Thursday), Edward R. Murrow set a standard which TV journalism has struggled to equal every day since.
by Bob Collins

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Refugee rush to the border is a defining moment

Who are we? That question seems to be the unanswered underpinning of many of the attempts to understand the nation since Election Day 2016.
by Bob Collins

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