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NPR misses the mark in Pat Buchanan interview

NPR misses the mark in Pat Buchanan interview

We deserve more intelligent coverage that seven minutes of Patrick Buchanan on a soap box.
by Bob Collins

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Red River floods or oil patch bust, these two persevere

Red River floods or oil patch bust, these two persevere

We first met Todd and Donna Morse when they were sandbagging against the Red River in 2009. They left Moorhead a few years ago for better times in the Oil Patch. Then the oil boom went bust.
by Bob Collins

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What about Diamond?

What about Diamond?

There's nothing that can rip the heart like the sound of a dying dream.
by Bob Collins

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Can a Medal of Honor recipient teach anything to your kids?

The House voted 129-3 to pass a bill that encourages schools that voluntarily provide character development education to include Congressional Medal of Honor history and values in the curriculum.
by Bob Collins

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Nation’s oldest veteran dead at 110

Nation’s oldest veteran dead at 110

Frank Levingston, the nation's oldest living World War II veteran has died. He'd held the distinction for only two weeks.
by Bob Collins

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Basset hounds comfort infant in last hours

Basset hounds comfort infant in last hours

Greater love hath no basset hound than that which Grumpie and Gracie had for five-month-old Nora Hall, who died on Monday at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis after suffering a stroke last month.
by Bob Collins

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As opposition to airport mounts, more people move next to it

As opposition to airport mounts, more people move next to it

Across the street from the Lake Elmo Airport, the second-smallest airport of the Metropolitan Airports Commission's "reliever airports" -- a neighborhood is rising from the onetime cornfields. That's significant given that the airport is becoming the focus of neighborhood opposition because of plans to expand one of the runways to a length similar to those at other small airports in the area, such as South St. Paul's Holman Field.
by Bob Collins

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Human vs. machine in news-writing showdown

In this growing age of artificial intelligence, a good question might be whose jobs won't be taken by a machine? News writers? You're in the crosshairs of your new overlords.
by Bob Collins

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‘You can order a human being as easily as pizza’

Give credit to Washington County for wanting to find out how pervasive human trafficking is around here. Now it's found out. It's disgustingly bad.
by Bob Collins

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Prince: Heroes are human

Prince: Heroes are human

The Star Tribune reports that an addiction specialist in California was working to get Prince into rehab before he died. If true, it makes Prince's death all the more tragic.
by Bob Collins

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