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Dakota County sheriff: ‘We’re not involved at pipeline protest’

Dakota County -- Minnesota -- Sheriff Tim Leslie is getting tired of the phone calls about the protest by the --North Dakota -- Standing Rock Sioux over a planned oil pipeline.
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After election, art steps up

After election, art steps up

The Twin Cities missed out on a Boston designer's idea to let people offer some positivity after this month's election, but now it's migrating to online.
by Bob Collins

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Twin Cities lags behind home price recovery

Housing prices nationally have hit record highs, although that's not the case in Minneapolis, one of the 20 cities making up the index. The average national home price is now 0.1% above the June 2006 price, although the index does not account for inflation.
by Bob Collins

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Remembering the Arizona

Remembering the Arizona

There are only a handful of survivors of the USS Arizona from the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago next week. And his family says Donald Stratton still jumps when there's a loud noise, owing to the bomb that scored a direct hit on his battleship.
by Bob Collins

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A blueprint for post-Obamacare health care

A blueprint for post-Obamacare health care

Trump is appointing Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., as the new secretary of health and human services, the perfect person, Vox says, to roll back health care coverage, an issue Democrats were too afraid to defend in the recent election. Price is one of the few Republicans in Congress who actually has proposed health care legislation in the post-Obamacare world.
by Bob Collins

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Scenes from baggage claim

Dealing with the crowds at the airport during the Thanksgiving travel period isn't a lot of fun, unless you're the type who likes to watch reunions at the baggage claim. It can be a good tonic for what ails you.
by Bob Collins

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On ‘The Secret Life of Muslims’

On ‘The Secret Life of Muslims’

Filmmaker Joshua Seftel told a CBS Sunday Morning audience today that when he was young, the other kids threw pennies at him because he was Jewish. That's one of the reasons he created the documentary series, 'The Secret Life of Muslims', he says.
by Bob Collins

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Is the DFL dead in rural Minnesota?

At national and local conventions, you never heard his name uttered; he rarely appeared in person to schmooze with the powerbrokers of the DFL. I often wondered why he was in the DFL at all.
by Bob Collins

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In death of blogs, the dying of words

For the record, NewsCut has smashed traffic records for the year so far and the last two months have been the most popular months in the history of the thing. But, we're also aware that blogs aren't the "bright shiny object" that so hypnotizes the experts.
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In display of sportsmanship, ‘The Mayor’ gets his TD

In display of sportsmanship, ‘The Mayor’ gets his TD

One of the most impressive aspects of this collaboration between high school coaches to allow a young man to get the thrill of scoring a touchdown in a football game yesterday is that the game was early and close when he did it.
by Bob Collins

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