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Saving skyways, MNsure’s reluctance, and why our weather person is better than your weather person (5×8 – 2/4/14)

Saving skyways, MNsure’s reluctance, and why our weather person is better than your weather person (5×8 – 2/4/14)

Why the Nicollet Mall skyways should be saved, how MNsure’s ‘arrogance’ helped create the health care sign-up mess, the weather could be worse: it could be a surprise, the fallacy of retirement, and a professor apologizes for his ‘rape assignment.’
by Bob Collins

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The closest Minnesota has ever gotten to a Super Bowl trophy

The closest Minnesota has ever gotten to a Super Bowl trophy

What are the odds that a day after winning a Super Bowl, the Super Bowl trophy would arrive back in Minnesota? It happened today. The Delta charter for the Seattle Seahawks, on their way home after yesterday’s game, diverted to Minnesota reportedly because of the need for a change of pilots and crew under FAA…
by Bob Collins

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Cost of safety strands Thief River Falls air travelers

The cost of increased airline safety is hitting a small city in Minnesota. On Saturday Great Lakes Airlines dropped service to Thief River Falls; Devils Lake and Jamestown, N.D.; Fort Dodge and Mason City, Iowa; and Ironwood, Mich. It also effectively shuttered its “hub” in Minneapolis. The suspension of air service highlights a problem for Read more →
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Final score: Minnesota 1 January 0

Final score: Minnesota 1 January 0

You made it through January, Minnesota. The month that tried to kill us also deprived us of a certain seasonal reality: Winter is a great time in the state that knows how to live through it. Just not this winter.
by Bob Collins

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The Metrodome as it shouldn’t be remembered

From the day we moved here in 1992, I never developed the hatred of the Metrodome that a lot of area sports fans did. So you'll have to forgive me if I find that some of the pictures showing up on Twitter today some with a heaping helping of melancholy.
by Bob Collins

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Tearing down skyways, canceling school, and the drone war of Lake Mille Lacs (5×8 – 1/31/14)

Tearing down skyways, canceling school, and the drone war of Lake Mille Lacs (5×8 – 1/31/14)

Should the skyways of Nicollet Mall be destroyed, what does it take to cancel school around here (and elsewhere), the commercial drone war has already started, Rod Carew’s mission, and the growing legend of Derrick Coleman.
by Bob Collins

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