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If Chicago can't rally around a 97-year old man who survived Pearl Harbor, there's something wrong. All you have to do, Chicago, is give up your tickets to a Cubs World Series game.
It's tempting to note that it's quite a coincidence that John Oliver's focus last night on 'Last Week Tonight' was the opioid epidemic, coming as it did on a weekend in which authorities announced that two people are dead -- so far -- in a wave of nine overdoses of opioids in the Twin Cities.
But that's the nature of epidemics. There are no coincidences. These headlines have been a constant for more than a year.
For the most part, parents can be pretty over-the-top when it comes to protecting their kids from risks real and imagined.
So why are they letting them play youth football?
Most fans of the Cleveland Indians had never heard of Ryan Merritt, until he pitched his team into the World Series. Now they're rewarding Merritt and his fiancee, a Rochester area native.
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