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Parents of victim ask for leniency in DUI case

Mike and Rainy Lofald's son, Joseph, was killed in April 2011 after a shift at the Minntac plant in Mountain Iron when the car in which he was riding went into the ditch. His colleague, James Duane Voltzke, was driving. And he was under the influence.
by Bob Collins

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Ode to ‘Big Block of Cheese Day’

Ode to ‘Big Block of Cheese Day’

The greatest contribution to the nation has already been made. To promote its promotion, the White House has reassembled the surviving cast of the West Wing, which once counted Big Block of Cheese Day as one of its most popular episodes.
by Bob Collins

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Evidence of warming planet not likely to quell debate

Evidence of warming planet not likely to quell debate

This will make little difference, we suspect, in the ongoing debate on climate change. The drip, drip, drip of facts long ago ceased to matter in this debate.
by Bob Collins

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Kids walk home from park, parents probed for ‘neglect’

Kids walk home from park, parents probed for ‘neglect’

If you had any kind of childhood at all , and you're over the age of 50, you will -- within the next three paragraphs -- be thinking about the time your parents left you to your own devices to find your way back home. You just didn't know at the time that you were a 'free range kid.'
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: The comic casket

1,000 Words: The comic casket

Bernard Verlhac was buried in France today. He was one of the cartoonists killed in last week's attack in Paris. His casket was simple but adorned, perhaps, the only way a casket for a cartoonist should be adorned
by Bob Collins

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Four charts that show the health care law is working

Four charts that show the health care law is working

The Affordable Care Act appears to be doing what it was supposed to do, a new report says.
by Bob Collins

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Hey Target, can downtown St. Paul get a store now?

Target is going to write off billions of dollars with the retreat, but it's not going to be bleeding red ink anymore, either. So what will it do with its money?
by Bob Collins

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The horrible case of Kendrea Johnson

It's not possible to find a sadder story today than the Star Tribune report on Kendrea Johnson, the 6-year-old girl who was found dead in her foster home in Brooklyn Park.
by Bob Collins

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Minnesota among highest-ranked states for tax ‘fairness’

Minnesota among highest-ranked states for tax ‘fairness’

Minnesota has one of the least regressive tax structures in the country, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which has released a study of individual state's tax policies to determine whether middle- and lower-income residents are shouldering more of the burden. For the record, Minnesota's tax system isn't fair. But neither is any other state's, according to the research.
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