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Capitol inaction, secrecy expose MN good government myth. Again

It's no surprise that the Minnesota Legislature has waited until the last minute to try to get any work done. Increasingly, it's as dysfunctional as its federal counterpart in Washington and reached a new level of paralysis in this session. When it comes to open government, Minnesota spends far too much time patting itself on the back.
by Bob Collins

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Ballplayers remember friend who died by suicide

On Wednesday evening at Chanhassen High School, the Chaska Hawks baseball team defeated the Chanhassen Storm 1-0. Any game that ends 1-0 is quite a game but it was quite a tribute from the kids on both teams that people will long remember, because they long remembered Ethan Herman, who would have been a senior this year had he not taken his own life in 2010. Do the math on that. He was just 12 years old.
by Bob Collins

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15-year winning streak ends for high school tennis program

There are probably a lot of high school tennis teams who would love to be 203-1 in tournaments, but the Grand Forks' Red River High School isn't one of them.
by Bob Collins

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Morley Safer knew good questions unearthed good stories

Morley Safer knew good questions unearthed good stories

Unlike the '60s and '70s, and because of the sharply-fractured media landscape, there don't seem to be the journalists anymore than can make an entire generation of wonderers want to get into the field. Maybe that doesn't hurt us much now, but it's hard to see how it doesn't hurt us a few years from now.
by Bob Collins

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‘I thought I’d never find you’

‘I thought I’d never find you’

A journalist thought she was racing to solve an old woman’s mysteries before she died. Instead, she uncovered the past.
by Bob Collins

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MPR: Treatment of Somali-American reporter feeds perception of racial bias

You wouldn't know it by the journalism he's been turning in, but Minnesota Public Radio reporter MPR reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim has had a challenge other reporters haven't faced at the trial of three Somali men accused of trying to join the ISIS terror group in Syria. Ibrahim, who is Somali-American, has been singled out for different treatment than his white colleagues.
by Bob Collins

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On MN Supreme Court, David Stras found unlikely allies

According to reports today, David Stras, a justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, is on the short list of people who would be under consideration to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat if Donald Trump were to be elected president. Stras has not been, at least from this non-lawyer’s perspective, particularly flashy or even ideologically driven, at…
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Are skeptics skeptical enough?

Last Sunday, science writer John Horgan gave a speech to the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, the name of which should give you a clue about what happened. The skeptics weren't happy.
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Tossing newspapers isn’t for everybody

Tossing newspapers isn’t for everybody

I'm a sucker for stories about newspaper carriers, a dying breed that operates in darkness but still has a bigger impact on the day's news agenda than any journalist.
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When the summer turns cold, it’s all in the attitude

When the summer turns cold, it’s all in the attitude

Oh, it got a little chilly and breezy over the weekend, did it, Minnesota? So sad. Let's check in on balmy Mount Washington.
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