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A defense of Keillor

A defense of Keillor

Tonight at the Hollywood Bowl, Keillor will step onto the stage as host for the last time. The show is being recorded for broadcast tomorrow night. It is, a critic says, a more nuanced show than the show's detractors acknowledge.
by Bob Collins

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Serial’s Adnan gets a new trial

If someone didn't do a podcast, someone would still be shrugging their shoulders at the suggestion that maybe an innocent person was wrongly imprisoned.
by Bob Collins

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NTSB: Pilot in fatal Minnesota plane crash was stoned

Mark O. Schultz, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., a bank executive; and Steven J. Schultz, 51, of Brooklyn Center, a Medtronic employee, were killed in the 2014 crash in western Minnesota.
by Bob Collins

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New battleground for the minimum wage fight: baseball

New battleground for the minimum wage fight: baseball

Perhaps it figures that when a Republican and Democrat finally get together on bipartisan legislation in Congress, it intends to enrich fat cats and stiff people trying to make a living.
by Bob Collins

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Man with ALS pens a note to himself

Man with ALS pens a note to himself

Chris Rosati isn't the first person with ALS to declare himself 'the luckiest man on earth.'
by Bob Collins

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A MN mother prepares for her son’s return from prison

'You're only as happy as your unhappiest child.' Anyone who's ever been a parent will recognize that as, perhaps, the most accurate statement on parenting ever uttered.
by Bob Collins

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Sano back in fielding form for Twins

Miguel Sano uses his head to get an out in a minor league rehab assignment game.
by Bob Collins

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A city slicker tries to get to Woodbury

We curmudgeonly types live for those moments when a friend or colleague (sometimes they're one and the same) tells us that we're right. [Insert cliched reference to it not happening that often here]. The subject: The transportation backwater that is Minnesota.
by Bob Collins

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You Should Meet: Dick Bancroft

You Should Meet: Dick Bancroft

If Dick Bancroft hadn't come down from Saint Paul's Summit Hill District as a young man, he might never have known the 'invisible minority' he champions so fiercely.
by Bob Collins

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Minnesota Daily to cease daily publication

A lot of journalists, including a few at a local radio network, have come through the Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota newspaper. It will now be printed only twice a week.
by Bob Collins

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