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Flossing fraud exposed

The Associated Press has exposed the dirty little secret your dentist has tried to keep while shaming you for not flossing daily. There's no evidence flossing is beneficial.
by Bob Collins

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Decades later, Vietnam refugee returns to thank Hibbing

It's hard not to imagine what the family might have contributed to a better Iron Range had his family spent more than a year in the Iron Range town on his way to a better life.
by Bob Collins

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The difficulty of saying ‘I was wrong’

The difficulty of saying ‘I was wrong’

Somewhere -- maybe -- a political strategist for the Trump-Pence ticket is wondering how booing parents of soldiers is going to propel the Republicans into the White House.
by Bob Collins

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Cooler heads defuse Pokemon showdown in Winona

Cooler heads defuse Pokemon showdown in Winona

The City Council last night voted not to ban the game-playing in city parks, specifically around the veteran's memorial next to a playground and band shell in the city.
by Bob Collins

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Buried next to Capt. Khan, Cpl. Schumann has a story too

Buried next to Capt. Khan, Cpl. Schumann has a story too

You'll probably see more of this picture in newspapers and on websites. It's the headstone of the soldier whose parents have been criticized by Donald Trump. You won't hear the story of the soldier on whose grave the photographers trampled to get it. You should.
by Bob Collins

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A Gold Star letter to Trump

It should come as no surprise -- although it still does -- that the preferred Republican candidate for president of the United States thought it made some sense to attack Gold Star parents. It doesn't take a political science degree to see the stupidity of doing so.
by Bob Collins

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The political analysis of ‘The Simpsons’

We've seen enough nonsensical real political commentary from the mainstream media during this campaign to dismiss The Simpsons version, just because it's a cartoon.
by Bob Collins

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For a cyclist, one second changes a life

For a cyclist, one second changes a life

It doesn't seem possible that it's been three years since Shaina Briscoe , an avid and well-known Twin Cities cyclist, started out on a race to the lakes of the Twin Cities, and sustained a severe brain injury when she and an SUV collided in Minneapolis.
by Bob Collins

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Winona tests the freedom to play Pokemon

People of Winona: Return to your lawns before someone gets hurt. The City Council in Winona is voting tonight to ban Pokemon playing in the city's veteran's park, which was built by selling pavers honoring veterans.
by Bob Collins

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Search team finds dog tags of pilot killed in WWII

Search team finds dog tags of pilot killed in WWII

Hans Wronka, the Duluth man who set out in July to find the airplane in which his grandfather died in World War II, has discovered dog tags in a hay stack.
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