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Update: Do presidents influence gasoline prices?

Let's update a the old misguided and inaccurate barometer to measure presidential performance that surfaced often since the dawn of NewsCut 9 years ago.
by Bob Collins

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Recycled Twin Cities playground goes to refugee camp

What happens to old playground equipment when affluent suburbs move on to something better? They end up in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon.
by Bob Collins

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With some health plans, even a doctor doesn’t seek health care

What a terrific piece of reporting Marketplace health beat reporter Dan Gorenstein turned in on the show last night! It followed a comment from the likely new secretary of Health and Human Services at his confirmation hearings yesterday.
by Bob Collins

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Survey: Political news is a TV game

Survey: Political news is a TV game

There isn't a lot new in Pew Research's survey today about where people got their news about the election and campaign. Trump supporters mostly used FoxNews and Clinton supporters didn't. But there are a few interesting nuggets, including the fact that digital publishers weren't much of a source. That includes operations such as Breitbart or BuzzFeed. So the sun hasn't set quite yet on traditional news 'brands.'
by Bob Collins

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St. Paul bests Minneapolis in survey of best sports venues

St. Paul bests Minneapolis in survey of best sports venues

Xcel Energy Center comes out on top as far as Minnesota venues being ranked in Stadium Journey's assessment of the best places to watch sporting events. The website reviewed 761 sports venues in 2016 and this week ranked the top 100.
by Bob Collins

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Details matter in discussion of health insurance

Details matter in discussion of health insurance

Now that Congress is on the road to repealing the Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare -- we're reminded again how the country missed an opportunity to have an intelligent debate during the campaign on health care access.
by Bob Collins

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When a lost dog comes home

It was minus 22 in Duluth, not the best weather for a short-haired dog, but not an impediment for dozens -- maybe hundreds -- of people who cared enough to help look for Bentley.
by Bob Collins

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‘A hard love that stings’

‘A hard love that stings’

Francisco Javier Ojeda, 50, was struck and killed by a car while crossing a street against the light when walking to work at the Home Depot in Fridley this week. He commuted there from his home in St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood, a gauntlet that appears to mirror much of his life.
by Bob Collins

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Report: Timberwolves’ Ricky Rubio on the trading block

YahooSports' Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA's most well-connected writer, reports that the Minnesota Timberwolves are shopping Rubio and Shabazz Muhammad ahead of the NBA trade deadline.
by Bob Collins

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NPR news boss: ‘We won’t tolerate legal or personal attacks on journalists’

During last week's confirmation hearings for attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked Sessions whether he would affirm a Justice Department guideline not to prosecute journalists for doing their job if he is confirmed. 'Senator Klobuchar, I am not sure,' Sessions said. That's not a good enough answer for the head of NPR News.
by Bob Collins

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