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Latest NBA owner scandal: Racism or ‘just business’?

Just a few months after a racist rant forced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling out of the National Basketball Association, another NBA owner is voluntarily selling his team after an allegedly racist email surfaced.
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The daily Jeter

The daily Jeter

Derek Jeter answers a reporter's cellphone during his news conference.
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Minnesota to Washington by canoe

Minnesota to Washington by canoe

For more than a year, Dave and Amy Freeman, of Grand Marais, have been planning a canoe trip to Washington as a way to call attention to -- and protest -- plans for copper mining in northeast Minnesota which they say threatens the wilderness. Yesterday, they left.
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The ethics of watching football

The ethics of watching football

Well, here we are. The opening Sunday of football season for the NFL. A chance to follow through on the off-season promises not to support the NFL because you don’t like the owners holding up local taxpayers for a new stadium, or the meager punishment handed out to those players who beat their wives and…
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Bachman’s and weed: Bad for the brand?

The news today that the owners of Bachman's Floral Gift & Garden Centers are interested in getting into the medical marijuana business will certainly present a challenge to the company, whose brand isn't usually associated with pot, even if it's legal.
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Unresponsive plane crashes after lengthy chase

Unresponsive plane crashes after lengthy chase

An aviation mystery playing out today is Cuba’s problem to unravel, at least for a little while yet. The North American Air Defense Command said on its Facebook page that it followed an “unresponsive” business jet until it entered Cuba’s airspace this afternoon. As of 11:30 a.m. EDT today, September 5th, 2014, two F-15 fighter…
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If this isn’t the worst job in Minnesota, what is?

If this isn’t the worst job in Minnesota, what is?

Let us now consider this question, thanks to the lonely trash hauler whose trash inexplicably has ended up on I-494 at Excelsior Blvd., at this hour: What's the worst job in Minnesota?
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The Economist reconsiders reconsideration of slavery

In an editor's note, The Economist acknowledged a slavery-sympathetic bood review shouldn't have been posted. It also reposted the review 'in the interest of transparency.'
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Where are the poets?

Today’s installment of “why can’t things be the way they were back in the day” comes from NPR, where Juan Vidal asks a good question: Where’s the poetry? In generations past, poets have fought brutality and injustice with the power of the word. There’s still a lot of poetry out there, but it’s not being…
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