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Schools wisely chase parents, not kids, over lunch debt

You have to give the Anoka-Hennepin school district, the largest in the state, credit for not exposing itself to the usual headline-inducing solution to parents who don't pay for their kids' school lunches.
by Bob Collins

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For ‘Star Wars’ lovers, nostalgia is a powerful force

For ‘Star Wars’ lovers, nostalgia is a powerful force

The latest trailer for the upcoming Star Wars evokes resonates in a manner I have not felt since I was in the presence of a childhood VHS cassette.
by William Lager

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No, millennials aren’t responsible for potholes

No, millennials aren’t responsible for potholes

How hard do the old-timers work to make Millennials look like jerks? Really hard.
by Bob Collins

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Are products that rely on monkey labor unethical?

Animal rights activists are calling for a boycott of products that use coconuts harvested by monkeys. The practice is common in Thailand where pigtail macaques are trained to scurry up trees and pick hundreds of coconuts a day.
by Michael Olson

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Did insurance remark prejudice Ventura ‘Sniper’ award?

Did insurance remark prejudice Ventura ‘Sniper’ award?

Jesse Ventura won $1.8 million in his defamation suit against 'American Sniper' author Chris Kyle. In an appeal of that award, judges today focused less on free speech and more on a single comment from Ventura's lawyer.
by Bob Collins

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Canadian town brings early Christmas to dying boy

Canadian town brings early Christmas to dying boy

Evan Leversage, a 7-year-old boy with brain cancer, isn't expected to live until Christmas. So the people of St. George, Ontario are messing with the calendar to bring in the holiday season early.
by Jon Gordon

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The ‘working’ side of the Working Families Agenda

A single-parent, nursing student writes in a commentary today that the Strib ignored a huge side of the debate: hers.
by Bob Collins

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Appeal of Ventura verdict will test 50 years of history

Appeal of Ventura verdict will test 50 years of history

In Federal Court in St. Paul tomorrow, attorneys for the estate of 'American Sniper' Chris Kyle will try to convince a panel to overturn the $1.8 million award a jury gave to former Gov. Jesse Ventura in a defamation lawsuit. Kyle, without mentioning Ventura, claimed in a book that he "laid" him out on the floor after he was "running his mouth" about the war in Iraq and President George W. Bush. But the court will be very much focusing on the New York Times, Martin Luther King Jr., four members of the clergy in Alabama, and the man who was in charge of police and fire there, because the case is a test of the Supreme Court decision that defined defamation of libel in America when it involves public figures
by Bob Collins

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Clock-making 14-year-old won’t meet Obama

The Texas kid who started a national furor when he took a clock he made to school and got detained for suspicion of making a bomb is getting his trip to Washington at the invitation of the president. But Ahmed Mohamed,14, won't be getting any time with President Obama after all.
by Bob Collins

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What happened to money people saved on gas?

Do people buy more expensive grades of gasoline when the price of gasoline drops?
by Bob Collins

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