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NY Times doubles down on Internet comments

Weeks after NPR decided to give up on the notion that its online audience can intelligently discuss the day's news via comments, the New York Times, which generally has a comment section worth reading, is trying another approach to elevate the scene.
by Bob Collins

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After 13 years, artist still drawing faces of dead soldiers

After 13 years, artist still drawing faces of dead soldiers

Here’s your daily dose of bittersweetness. Michael Reagan, an artist in Edmonds, Washington, could probably be making bigger bucks as an artist. But making bigger bucks isn’t his passion right now. Drawing the images of every service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan is. He got a fair amount of publicity in the last decade…
by Bob Collins

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Wells Fargo survives fraud scandal in congressional hearing

Wells Fargo survives fraud scandal in congressional hearing

At least in the short term, a scolding from a politician can be costly, but it takes a lot more to bring a big bank down.
by Bob Collins

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Wisconsin man’s best friend is a blind horse

Today daily dose of sweetness comes from Soldier's Grove, Wisc., where Roderick Olsen's horse, Zaxson, went blind a few years ago. But even a blind horse wants to go for the occasional run.
by Bob Collins

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NDSU win doesn’t muzzle critic from Iowa

NDSU win doesn’t muzzle critic from Iowa

As any outsider who's ever criticized Minnesota can attest, nothing can stir up the locals like a little disrespect. And nothing can feel so fulfilling as some comeuppance.
by Bob Collins

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St. Cloud tries to resist the urge to divide

In its editorial, the St. Cloud Times is stating what shouldn't have to be stated: the obvious. It's not a time to turn on each other in the wake of the weekend stabbing attack at a mall in St. Cloud.
by Bob Collins

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Anti-Muslim sign in Lonsdale is protected speech, bad business

Anti-Muslim sign in Lonsdale is protected speech, bad business

Ground zero for this debate is the East Side of St. Paul, where some teenagers burned a cross at the home of a black family in 1990. One young man was convicted under St. Paul's Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance, which prohibits the display of a symbol which one knows or has reason to know 'arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender.'
by Bob Collins

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A football game breaks out at orchestra concert

That was apparently quite the stunning halftime show at the new Vikings stadium last evening when the Minnesota Orchestra played as the entertainment.
by Bob Collins

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Minneapolis volleyball players are latest to ‘take a knee’

To right an injustice, you have to be part of someone else's story, New York Times columnist David Brooks says. That's difficult when your injustice isn't theirs.
by Bob Collins

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Video of bus incident in Cambridge-Isanti prompts probe

Video of bus incident in Cambridge-Isanti prompts probe

You've probably seen the technique used by drivers entering divided highways. Maybe you've even used it yourself. Get halfway across the highway to the median, then wait for traffic to give you a break to enter. That technique doesn't work well if you're driving a school bus.
by Bob Collins

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