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The coffee shop with no employees

The coffee shop with no employees

North Dakota coffee shop operates on the honor system.
by Bob Collins

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Carnegie honors the nation’s heroes

Carnegie honors the nation’s heroes

If the day's news is enough to make you question the decency and sanity of humans, then the Carnegie Foundation couldn't have picked a better day to release its list of Carnegie Heroes.
by Bob Collins

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What good are settlements if no one admits wrongdoing?

What good are settlements if no one admits wrongdoing?

People lost their homes. Taxpayers lost millions covering the loans. U.S. Bank lost some petty cash and didn't admit it did anything wrong. That's the problem.
by Bob Collins

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Bizarre Wimbledon scene as Serena withdraws

Bizarre Wimbledon scene as Serena withdraws

It was fairly frightening watching Serena Williams trying to play tennis today. The five-time Wimbledon champ pulled out of a doubles match today, which came after a lengthy courtside visit with a doctor. Were it not for the seriousness of the situation, the cheekiness of the Brit broadcasters would be positively entertaining. Wimbledon doctors are…
by Bob Collins

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Step inside the world’s largest plane: Antonov 225

Step inside the world’s largest plane: Antonov 225

The largest airplane ever built will be in the Twin Cities for another day. What's it look like inside?
by Bob Collins

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St. Croix Crossing starting to look like a bridge

St. Croix Crossing starting to look like a bridge

On this the 83rd birthday of the Stillwater lift bridge (which will reopen to traffic tomorrow, by the way), we pause to note that its replacement is starting to look like a bridge.
by Bob Collins

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Our cars are conspiring to kill us with technology

Our cars are conspiring to kill us with technology

Who knows what we would have done in the situation Michael Johannes, 51, of Minneapolis was in Sunday evening when his Chevy Trailblazer caught on fire?
by Bob Collins

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Why don’t more people take mass transit?

Minneapolis is a fairly dense city, Alex Cecchini writes on streets.mn, but Minneapolitans don’t seem to use mass transit to the extent one would expect. He found 55 percent of the people in the zip codes he analyzed work within five miles of where they live, which should allow for a commute of 30 minutes…
by Bob Collins

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Iron Range history comment riles Native American

A St. Louis County commissioner, a supporter of a controversial copper mine, is at the center of a controversy for a history lesson he gave during a public hearing in Ely, the Duluth News Tribune reports today.
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New scoreboard for Wild

New scoreboard for Wild

The sports arena “arms race” in the Twin Cities took a step forward today when the Minnesota Wild and Xcel Energy Center announced a “technology upgrade” that includes a new video scoreboard that will be six times larger than the one that’s there now. It was installed in 2000. The Wild press release indicates the…
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