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What’s on MPR News – 1/1/19

What’s on MPR News – 1/1/19

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

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Life lessons from a retiring football player

Kyle Williams, a defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills, played his last NFL game on Sunday and retired with a final lesson that has very little to do with football per se.
by Bob Collins

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Full-time trash hauler builds NHL franchise in spare time

Dan Shrader, of Prior Lake, was likely out picking up the trash this morning. It's his full-time job. Between a few stops, he helps build one of the best franchises in the National Hockey League.
by Bob Collins

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MN family survives the great cricket debacle of 2018

The struggle is real in rural Minnesota, people. Oh, sure, you city slickers have it pretty easy when you need a bunch of crickets for whatever you need crickets for. But in rural Minnesota? It's cricket eat cricket out there.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News – 12/31/18

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

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He came for coffee and got a kidney

In Dupont, Wash., Nicole McNeil uttered the three most important words a human can say to another: 'how are you?'
by Bob Collins

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After daughter’s killing, an Iowa mother holds on to her humanity

After daughter’s killing, an Iowa mother holds on to her humanity

We haven't heard much about Mollie Tibbetts since she provided a weapon for some people in the immigration debate this year by being murdered and left in an Iowa cornfield.
by Bob Collins

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On way out door, one final act of indecency for lame ducks

Eighty-four percent of Native American women experience violence in their lifetime. They are killed at 10 times the rate of other women in the U.S. Who wouldn't want to do something about that? This guy.
by Bob Collins

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