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In boycott over U of M suspensions, the issue isn’t football

In boycott over U of M suspensions, the issue isn’t football

The players have boycotted practice and are threatening to sit out the team's bowl game, apparently a move to try to pressure school officials to ignore whatever was in that 82-page report. There can be only one reasonable reaction: Go ahead.
by Bob Collins

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One last flight

One last flight

There is no news value in what you're about to read. I wouldn't want anyone to think that I was elevating a personal story to the rarified air of a NewsCut topic. But it provides some background for why posting will be light here today and also closes the book on a chapter of NewsCut that occasionally surfaced here: the time I built my own airplane in my garage.
by Bob Collins

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Obit: He had ALS and pancreatic cancer and did not go quietly

Obit: He had ALS and pancreatic cancer and did not go quietly

When he died last Friday, Chris Connors, of York, Maine, was said to have expired from a combination of stubborness and whiskey. Also ALS and pancreatic cancer.
by Bob Collins

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Timewasters: The random parade

Will someone please try this with Minnesotans?
by Bob Collins

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Last fluent speaker of Mandan dies

Edwin Benson has died and with him a language may also pass on. Benson, of Twin Buttes on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in west-central North Dakota, was the last living person who could fluently speak Mandan..
by Bob Collins

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Santa might have made up story of child dying in his arms

Santa might have made up story of child dying in his arms

The story of the child who died in the arms of Santa Claus, posted earlier this week, was so poignant and unusual that there had to be doubt whether it actually happened. But those sure looked like real tears that Eric Schmitt-Matzen -- Santa -- was shedding in his interview with the Knoxville News Sentinel when he was telling it. But now the paper says it might all be a fake.
by Bob Collins

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Little sympathy for victims of snow emergencies

With the seasons first big snowfall behind us, the "steamed because I got towed" season is well underway. In Mankato, 332 cars were towed during the snow emergency on Monday, overflowing the impound lot that usually handles an average of about 150 towed cars when it snows.
by Bob Collins

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Race for DNC chair is round 2 of Sanders vs. Clinton

The Democrats' search for a savior -- a party chairman -- is tilting toward Minneapolis congressman Keith Ellison, but it's not hard to miss the clear dissatisfaction with the choices party leaders have been given, Politico indicates in a survey of them today.
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How not to drive into a pond

How not to drive into a pond

The State Patrol said the truck's windows had fogged up and frozen with yesterday's cold temperatures so she couldn't see where she was going, and was going to pull over to clear things up. Why does this happen?
by Bob Collins

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