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No ‘trickle down’ for local gas prices

Gasoline prices at the pump have fallen about 15 cents a gallon in the last month, far less than the price of oil to the refineries, the Star Tribune says. They're pocketing the savings.
by Bob Collins

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No, Bill James doesn’t really think a beer vendor can bat cleanup

No, Bill James doesn’t really think a beer vendor can bat cleanup

Bill James, the onetime security guard who literally changed the game of baseball by developing new statistics to measure performance, is in big trouble with players for suggesting the boys aren't as important as they think they are.
by Bob Collins

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Minnesotans don’t know how to drive in the snow? Bah!

Minnesotans don’t know how to drive in the snow? Bah!

'I thought you guys were supposed to be good at this winter stuff,' an out-of-towner said to me late Thursday night when I dropped him off at a hotel on the Bloomington strip. It had taken us about 45 minutes to drive from Fairview Hospital, taking the deserted river roads instead of returning to the disaster on the interstate I'd been seeing all evening.
by Bob Collins

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