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Open thread: Snow daze

Already this morning, my Twitter feed is full of people worried that school be closed tomorrow, and that school won't be closed tomorrow.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News – 1/28/19

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
by Bob Collins

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In yearbook photo decision, Blackduck avoids a brouhaha

There are guns in yearbook stories and then there are guns in yearbooks stories. They're not all created equal and the Blackduck, Minn., School Committee seemed to recognize that when it voted to allow Antonia Long's photo to appear in the yearbook. She's holding a gun.
by Bob Collins

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The burden of the baseball writer

The burden of the baseball writer

Star Tribune sports columnist Jim Souhan has had it up to here with what baseball writers have had to endure when submitting their votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
by Bob Collins

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The people who pass school buses

Any school bus driver will tell you this sort of thing happens all the time, it just happened to be in Dunn County, Wisc., (the Menomonie area) where someone with a dashcam caught the near horrifying moment when a driver couldn't be bothered stopping for a school bus.
by Bob Collins

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Hey concert goers: settle down and listen

Hey concert goers: settle down and listen

When it comes to obnoxious fans, only concert-goers can rival golf fans who insist on shouting 'get in the hole!' at the tee box of a par five hole.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News – 1/25/19

What’s on MPR News – 1/25/19

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
by Bob Collins

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School superintendent arrested for showing some compassion

Casey Smitherman, a school superintendent in Elwood, Ind., has been arrested for a crime committed by the nation's health care system.
by Bob Collins

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Faced with hostile takeover, newspaper chain takes its own life

Earlier this week, there was appropriate gnashing of teeth with word that Digital First -- the hedge fund that's destroyed the St. Paul Pioneer Press and other proud newspapers across America -- would make a play for Gannett, owners of dozens of newspapers, including the St. Cloud Times, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. We need not have worried about Digital First. Gannett has killed off many of the papers with a round of layoffs that leaves the newspapers as newspapers in name only.
by Bob Collins

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