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Breaking a barrier, Red Lake athlete signs letter of intent

Breaking a barrier, Red Lake athlete signs letter of intent

There have been plenty of ballyhooed high school athletes in Minnesota over the years and Grace White should be one of them. This week she signed a letter of intent to play Division I basketball with the University of Denver, becoming the first Red Lake reservation athlete to play an NCAA Division I sport.
by Bob Collins

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Voting turmoil! This time it’s baseball

Voting turmoil! This time it’s baseball

Just as sure as the sun will rise in the east, the baseball awards season will lead to people calling for baseball writers to get out of the business of voting on postseason awards.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: The caucus meeting

1,000 Words: The caucus meeting

It's unclear if Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., intended for her snapshot of the meeting of the House Republican Caucus, of which she's chair, to go viral today, but it has.
by Bob Collins

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With one opposed, Northfield councilors express support for minority members

After about 100 residents in Northfield attended a meeting on Sunday to share concerns about perceived threats to the Latino community, the City Council on Tuesday went on the record with a resolution “affirming the city of Northfield’s commitment to be a safe, inclusive and welcoming community for all.” It passed 6-to-1, Northfield News reports.…
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When an insurance company walks away from rural Minnesota

If the election 2016 was an opportunity for a comprehensive discussion of health care insurance, the nation failed badly. Instead, it was a debate over a word and a general concept -- Obamacare. You're either for it or you're against it. That's too bad because there are people -- Republicans and Democrats and everyone in between -- who are suffering under the byzantine health insurance system, just as they suffered under it in the pre-Obamacare days.
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The antidote for fake news? Better journalism

Jeff Jarvis, the media watcher with whom I rarely agree, hits it squarely on the head today in his Medium.com piece urging caution over an uprising against Facebook and its promotion of “fake news” sites (here’s a list of some of them). Jarvis, a journalist, asks whether we really want Facebook, or anyone else, to…
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Anti-racist efforts in Maple Grove spread, because the world is watching

Anti-racist efforts in Maple Grove spread, because the world is watching

'The world is watching' is one of those cliches uttered so often that we can occasionally forget that, indeed, the world is watching. The kids of Maple Grove, who responded to racist graffiti last week by posting welcoming letters to other students, were likely focused only on their fellow students. But the world was watching.
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On the death of Melvin Laird

On the death of Melvin Laird

Melvin Laird, the secretary of defense under Richard Nixon, died today. A lot of old-timers probably weren't even aware the Carlton College alum was still alive, except that his name has come up a few times in the last week as an example of why a president's cabinet choices are pretty important.
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An analysis of NPR campaign coverage

In public radio, 'politicians and pointyheads' tend to dominate. So it can be jarring to hear from people who are neither. Thus the term public radio. There were some flaws in how NPR covered the campaign, sure, but it would be unfortunate if people walk away from the notion that hearing from people living their lives is something requiring apology.
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The last steps on the moon

If you're like a lot of people on planet Earth this week, you've spent a lot of time looking at the moon, which is closer to Earth this week than the last time it was this close to Earth.
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