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Prepare to be disgusted. Mayfly hatch underway.

As you slip on dead mayflies over the next few days, try to remember that it's indicative of a river's health. The annual massive mayfly hatch on the Mississippi is finally underway, a little later than usual.
by Bob Collins

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Chris Kluwe, moral crusader no more

Chris Kluwe, moral crusader no more

Chris Kluwe is finished in this town. Don't worry folks, you'll know when I'm on tilt. The Vikings clearly think turning this dirty will scare me off. Says all you need to know. — Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) July 19, 2014 The former Minnesota Viking punter, who became a folk hero during the debate over an…
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25 years ago, Al Haines became the greatest pilot in America

25 years ago, Al Haines became the greatest pilot in America

It might not look like it, but this might well be the greatest example of airmanship in the history of aviation. It was 25 years ago this weekend, that pilot Al Haines put United Flight 232 down in Sioux City, after losing most ability to control the plane earlier in the flight. By all accounts,…
by Bob Collins

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Agnes’ first pitch

Agnes’ first pitch

Agnes McKee has got some game. She’s 105 years old and yesterday, with one hand on her walker,  she did this in San Diego. Well, of course, she threw a nice pitch. She’d been practicing. Her goal, she says, is to walk again without a walker.
by Bob Collins

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Airline ticket prices increase today

Theoretically, you should be twice as safe on an airplane today now that the tax — I’m sorry, “fee” — for providing security  is doubling. Good one. It turns out — you might want to sit down for this — that it’s merely a money grab.  Comparatively little of the extra money is going toward…
by Bob Collins

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Green Line finds cars still take priority in St. Paul

The Green Line project put stations after the intersection, meaning trains have to stop twice: once for the signal, and once for the station.
by Bob Collins

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Pilot lands on highway for second time in a week

It’s an aviation truism that when a pilot has a bad day and needs to make an emergency landing, it’s best to get right back on the horse. Frank Fierro, 75, had a bad day last week when he landed his single-engine ultralight Challenger plane on a highway on Long Island. It wasn’t a big…
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Can Zimmy’s be saved?

Can Zimmy’s be saved?

If there can’t be a nightspot honoring Bob Dylan on the Iron Range, can anything survive on the Iron Range? Aaron J. Brown writes on his Minnesota Brown blog today that a crowdstarter campaign has kicked off to reopen Zimmy’s, the Hibbing night spot and restaurant that closed abruptly last spring. In truth, this campaign…
by Bob Collins

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The time the U.S. shot down an airliner

The time the U.S. shot down an airliner

In the aftermath of the downing of a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine yesterday, news organizations were quick to reference Korean Airlines Flight 007, shot down by a then-Soviet Union fighter jet over disputed land in September 1983. Not mentioned quite as often, however, was the time the United States shot down a commercial jetliner. The…
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Remembering ‘WeeZee,’ a State Fair icon

Remembering ‘WeeZee,’ a State Fair icon

Louise "WeeZee" Miner of Bloomington was legally blind but she said she always could tell what a horse was doing at the Minnesota State Fair horse ring, where she passed out the ribbons.
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