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Cross-country cyclists stop in Duluth to do some good

Nothing can pep up a little home state pride like a group of bicyclists from the East Coast riding through Minnesota.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: The black officer and white supremacist

1,000 Words: The black officer and white supremacist

This picture of an African-American officer in South Carolina helping a white supremacist at a rally for the Confederate flag a couple of weeks ago had all kinds of symbolism to it.
by Bob Collins

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‘That’s All, Brother': Inside the plane that led D-Day

‘That’s All, Brother': Inside the plane that led D-Day

This was the last time we saw "That's All, Brother", the Douglas C-47 that led the D-Day invasion in World War II. The company that owned it was about to turn it into a more modern turboprop plane when someone researched its past and found it was the first plane of paratroopers into France.
by Bob Collins

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An experiment camping and commuting in Bemidji

An experiment camping and commuting in Bemidji

Why not reconnect with nature and keep your day job? John Enger, MPR News' reporter in Bemidji, Minn., spent the week commuting to work from a campground. Here's what he learned.
by John Enger

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In defense of northern Minnesota cities

The original article points out a troubling trend: People who find data on the Internet, slap up some Google streetview pictures, and never visit the area they're professing to analyze.
by Bob Collins

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Leukemia and the healing power of a game of catch

Leukemia and the healing power of a game of catch

Sure, baseball's link to fathers and sons borders on the cliche, thanks primarily to the movie, Field of Dreams. But a game of catch is still a great way to take a snapshot of the love of a father as this story of a young baseball's pitcher's personal catcher proves. Again.
by Bob Collins

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Soccer team’s strategy of silence is paying off

It would be fascinating to take a look at the new stadium playbook the Minnesota United is using to get a new stadium for its Major League Soccer franchise. The Pioneer Press' Andy Greder, for one, has noticed that the United is approaching asking for public help in a different way than any of the big-three sports franchises in town used to extract taxpayer money for a venue.
by Bob Collins

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The art of the obit: Mary Stocks

'She liked four letter words as much as she loved her rock garden and trust us she LOVED to weed that garden with us as her helpers, when child labour was legal or so we were told. '
by Bob Collins

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Apollo 13 remembered 45 years later

Apollo 13 remembered 45 years later

America has a love affair with one of its most spectacular failures — the aborted moon mission of Apollo 13 in which astronauts and NASA invented a solution to an insurmountable problem, literally on the fly. Last night in Oshkosh, people who declared that “failure is not an option,” joined the surviving two astronauts —…
by Bob Collins

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Plane crashes at Oshkosh air festival

An accident mars the third day of events at Wisconsin's AirVenture aviation gathering.
by Bob Collins

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