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The kid who’s ‘got it’

The kid who’s ‘got it’

Kayden Elijah,2, and his kiddie delight is providing a collective lift for the rest of us, thanks to this video which has swept the InterTubes in the last day or so. He had to have a foot and leg amputated because he was born with an omphalocele, which leaves organs to grow outside the navel.…
by Bob Collins

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Five hundred years of experience leaving Star Tribune

It’s hard to see how the Star Tribune will be a better newspaper without the experience that is about to walk out the door. Roughly a dozen-and-a-half staffers have taken voluntary buyouts and will be leaving the newspaper. The Newspaper Guild said the departing members have 586 years of newspaper experience. Many of them are…
by Bob Collins

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Without camera, photographer sees eyes of dying child

We are not challenged anywhere near enough by journalists to remember that there are more victims of this violence than the ones who die. There's the person who has to look into the eyes of a dying kid, too.
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Judging NPR

Judging NPR

As expected, NPR is ending its relationship with its ombudsman, Edward Schumacher-Matos. His contract expires at the end of the month and isn’t being renewed. His demise was nearly a foregone conclusion since his astonishing seven-part “investigation” into NPR’s series on the removal of Native American children from their homes in South Dakota, an investigation…
by Bob Collins

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How to turn potato salad into cold, hard cash

How to turn potato salad into cold, hard cash

Zack Danger Brown is getting a lot of hate for thinking of something everyone else wishes they'd thought of first. Brown apparently understands that with Kickstarter, the money donation website, people will throw money at you if everyone else is too, no matter how stupid the campaign.
by Bob Collins

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Is cynicism the problem?

Is cynicism the problem?

Shifting the blame to the people is a time-honored tradition of a stagnant country.
by Bob Collins

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Don’t fall asleep at a baseball game

Don’t fall asleep at a baseball game

Andrew Rector says his life has been ruined since he caught up on some sleep at a Yankees-Red Sox game in April.
by Bob Collins

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The price of being a Good Samaritan

Even if it ends up costing them money to do so, the odds are that Good Samaritans would still stop at crash scenes to help out; that's just the way Good Samaritans are. Still, being the one to stop shouldn't cost you money.
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Steve Inskeep on the Charlie Rose show

Steve Inskeep on the Charlie Rose show

Here you go, Morning Edition fans. Everything you’d want to know about Steve Inskeep, the NPR host of the morning program. Charlie Rose claims it’s the program he gets his news from before he goes to work in the morning to tell people the news. “Anybody who can do this job can do this job,”…
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FAA to pilots: Fly higher over Lake Elmo

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport isn’t the only place where the neighbors are upset about the noise. The Federal Aviation Administration today sent a notice to area pilots to stop flying low over the Lake Elmo area. Over the past few weeks, the Minneapolis Flight Standards District Office has received numerous complaints against low flying aircraft in the…
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