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The stop sign and the snowstorm

The stop sign and the snowstorm

Audrey Kletscher Helbling, who writes the Minnesota Prairie Roots blog, has a real knack for finding the obvious characterizations of our sensibilities that most of us don't see.
by Bob Collins

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Protesting mining, couple completes canoe trip to DC

Protesting mining, couple completes canoe trip to DC

Explorers Dave and Amy Freeman have made it to Washington in their effort to canoe to the nation's capital by canoe to lobby against copper mining around the Boundary Waters.
by Bob Collins

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Transgender dooms girls’ sports? MN pioneer says relax

It's unlikely that Minnesotans who are hyperventilating over a proposed policy on transgender athletes in Minnesota schools will be swayed by facts, but the first woman to play on a boy's sports team in the state is taking a shot at it anyway.
by Bob Collins

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Remembering Dennis Walaker

Remembering Dennis Walaker

Walaker didn't seem to be a phony, and he made North Dakota make a lot of sense to an out-of-towner.
by Bob Collins

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MLB umpire comes out as gay

MLB umpire comes out as gay

Another first for gay men in sports today when Dale Scott became the first active baseball umpire to come out as gay.
by Bob Collins

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Drilling begins for the new Highway 53

Drilling begins for the new Highway 53

We might suggest that having a job in a cubicle in the winter in Minnesota isn't the worst thing in the world, but drilling in the Rouchleau Pit, where a bridge for the Highway 53 is going to be built, might be high on the list.
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: The sandbaggers

1,000 Words: The sandbaggers

People in southern California are sandbagging in anticipation of heavy rain.
by Bob Collins

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ND may require students to be as smart as immigrants

State school chief Kirsten Baesler and first lady Betsy Dalrymple announced a bill they will have filed that will require high school kids to answer questions on the citizenship test as a requirement for graduation.
by Bob Collins

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Happiness is talking to a stranger

Happiness is talking to a stranger

NPR Morning Edition's report this morning is a bit of an eye-opener, especially if you -- like me -- experience mass transit vicariously, through the tweets of people relaying their thoughts about the apparently-unsavory characters who ride the bus or train with them.
by Bob Collins

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In war v. hunger, war wins

In war v. hunger, war wins

Lots in the online flagellation over the closing of Nye's in Minneapolis, was a much more serious closing: The World Food Program has run out of money and has ended its role as an emergency relief provider to refugees in Syria.
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