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Mystery company seeking $1 million loan for St. Paul jobs

Quiz time. It's a company that has operations all over the country. It's already doing business locally. Who is it?
by Bob Collins

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Welcome, winter!

Let's just get this out of the way now and not speak of it again.
by Bob Collins

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While coaching football, Jerry Kill taught us about epilepsy

While coaching football, Jerry Kill taught us about epilepsy

The urgency, the timing, and the history messages us that this isn't going to be good news for one of the best educators the University of Minnesota ever had.
by Bob Collins

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(Updated) Why we knew a Royals’ pitcher’s dad died before he knew

(Updated) Why we knew a Royals’ pitcher’s dad died before he knew

In the aftermath of last night's World Series game, a real mystery continues to swirl around the starter for the Kansas City Royals' starting pitcher. What did he know about the health of his father and when did he know it? And why did we know it first?
by Bob Collins

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Dueling symphony orchestras as World Series begins

Dueling symphony orchestras as World Series begins

On the heels of last week's book-spine smackdown between public libraries in Toronto and Kansas City over the baseball playoffs, we now turn to the musical portion of baseball's postseason 'trash talk.'
by Bob Collins

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Columnist takes a stand on suicide, and gets it all wrong

Columnist takes a stand on suicide, and gets it all wrong

It was an awful tragedy in Dallas this week when Patti Stevens, 54, took her own life, two weeks after a mentally ill former Texas A&M football player hacked her husband to death with a machete while he was out for an early-morning jog.
by Bob Collins

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Why are theater audiences laughing when they shouldn’t?

Today's 'let's blame social media' item comes from Boston where a theater critic is lambasting an increasing practice in theater: audience laughter where there shouldn't be any.
by Bob Collins

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Halloween the social networking way

Halloween the social networking way

Target Corporation has unveiled an app that will allow people you don't know, potentially from neighborhoods that aren't yours, to show up at your door on Halloween because the word got out you're giving away some decent candy. What could possibly go wrong?
by Bob Collins

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As goes a municipal liquor store, so goes a small town

As goes a municipal liquor store, so goes a small town

If your city-owned liquor store is the only thing standing between you and becoming a ghost town, aren't you already one?
by Bob Collins

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