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Death of a tugboat

Death of a tugboat

It doesn’t look like the Mount McKay is going to be a fixture tooling around the Duluth waterfront again, not unless someone buys it and treats the tugboat the way Don Bergholm and the boat’s engineer, Bruce Lindberg, did. The two restored the 1908 boat and worked the waterfront until cancer claimed Lindberg last year.…
by Bob Collins

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Survey shows MN more business friendly than you think

Survey shows MN more business friendly than you think

Minnesota is generally considered a high-tax state but the Thumbtack.com survey found that taxes was not statistically significant in defining whether a state is friendly to small businesses.
by Bob Collins

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Woman named to NBA coaching staff

Woman named to NBA coaching staff

It’s not hard to find men coaching sports played by women. So why aren’t there women coaching men’s teams? Ask no more, NBA fans. The San Antonio Spurs, perhaps the finest basketball organization in America, today hired a woman as an assistant coach. Becky Hammon is in her final season — her 16th — with…
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Upset by behavior, mom sells daughter’s concert tickets

Upset by behavior, mom sells daughter’s concert tickets

Cindy Bjerke of Fargo was upset at her 18-year-old daughter's disrespectful behavior, WDAZ-TV reports, so she sold the Katy Perry tickets she'd purchased for her daughter on the Fargo-Moorhead Garage Sale page.
by Bob Collins

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Court: No federal crime beating kids who spurn chores

A federal panel has ruled that, while deplorable, it's not a federal crime to beat children for not doing "chores."
by Bob Collins

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Area vet tries to reunite Iraqi interpreter with family

Area vet tries to reunite Iraqi interpreter with family

A Twin Cities federal law enforcement officer is raising money to try to get the family of an Iraqi who served as an interpreter for U.S. forces back together.
by Bob Collins

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Transmormon

The Atlantic gives new life to the story of a Mormon born a boy but becoming a girl.
by Bob Collins

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Is St. Paul more conservative than Minneapolis?

Is St. Paul more conservative than Minneapolis?

Southern cities are generally more conservative than northern cities; not much of a surprise there. The Economist has pored over the data in a new survey of cities and found a few interesting differences within states. Toledo is more conservative than Cleveland, for example. And Colorado Springs (a military community) is more conservative than Denver.…
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