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Starting a career after graduation? You want to be in the Twin Cities

It might be a tough hiring market for this year's college graduates, but a new survey says if you're a young person looking to start a career and put down some roots, you want to be in Minneapolis or Saint Paul.
by Bob Collins

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Lazy students, teachers turn to Twitter to avoid finals

So this is a thing, now. Across the Twitterverse this week, high school and college kids are making deals with their professors and teachers, who are supposed to be in the business of educating students.
by Bob Collins

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Public investment and the scourge of big numbers

Public investment and the scourge of big numbers

Anybody who hung around downtown Saint Paul during the 2008 Republican National Convention knows that it was a dud for most local businesses. It wasn’t surprising; analysis of other conventions showed somewhat similar results. What sounds like a big infusion of cash barely makes a ripple. But local officials put out a post-mortem assessment saying…
by Bob Collins

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Why the delay in world concern for kidnapped girls?

The kidnapping of girls in Nigeria at the hands of the Boko Haram rebels is finally getting traction in news cycles, thanks primarily to Twitter and social media. This week the United States offered to help find them, almost three weeks after their abduction. Why the slow world response?
by Bob Collins

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Video: Hail to Duluth

Video: Hail to Duluth

One of these days it would be fun to come up with other ways of measuring hail. Traditionally, it’s described as pea-sized (just heard the TV anchor warn Belle Plaine the peas are heading your way, by the way) , nickel-sized, golf-ball-sized or baseball-sized hail. We have a thing for food, money and sports in…
by Bob Collins

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Raising of I-35E speed limit fails… again

Nothing gets suburban legislators at the Minnesota Capitol cranked up more than having to slow down when driving on I-35E in Saint Paul.
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The same-sex marriage battleground: Video games

There will be no same sex marriages in Nintendo’s social simulation game “Tomodachi Life.” Nintendo made that clear today when it confirmed that while players will be able to form romantic relationships in its virtual world, and maybe even get married, same-sex marriage will not be allowed. The game is to represent “a playful alternative…
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Love in the frozen-food section

Roundy’s decision to dump its Rainbow grocery stores in Minnesota and head back to its roots caused a momentary heart skip for many people today. But it’s not like days of yesteryear when we had a meaningful relationship with the grocery store. Nobody knows our name, and with a few exceptions, what you can get…
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At Union Depot, a celebration of a failed transportation option

Today is a big day at Union Depot where Amtrak will make its first passenger stop there since the time when it was actually a dependable mode of transportation. The only thing missing was a train, but there's no way to adequately plan such a thing.
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