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Toy company behaving like corporate bully in Super Bowl ad contest

Toy company behaving like corporate bully in Super Bowl ad contest

GoldieBlox isn't going to need to win the free Super Bowl commercial competition it's in with the Locally Laid egg farm in Wrenshall, Minn. It's doing just fine getting publicity thanks to its viral video.
by Bob Collins

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Duluth TV audience demands to see its news anchors freeze like everyone else

Duluth TV audience demands to see its news anchors freeze like everyone else

If The Daily Show can do it, perhaps there’s no reason why a Duluth TV station can’t fake the news by standing in front of a “green screen” and pretending to be somewhere they’re not.
by Bob Collins

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The scourge of the audience-submitted photo

The scourge of the audience-submitted photo

The fastest-disappearing job in journalism is the photographer and this is the time of the year when it shows.
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob – 11/25/13

We may never know why Adam Lanza killed Connecticut students, Trevino gets 27 years in killing of his wife, Obama pushes back against critics of the Iran nuclear deal, why there's no Minnesota steel in the new Vikings stadium, and how a person taught himself to fly using someone else's airplane -- without permission.
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How a Saint Paul-born ‘fly girl’ changed history

How a Saint Paul-born ‘fly girl’ changed history

Dora Dougherty Strother McKeown has died. The Saint Paul native was the first woman to fly a B-29 Superfortress during World War II because the men were afraid to.
by Bob Collins

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Read this before you buy those spiffy tail light covers

Read this before you buy those spiffy tail light covers

If you’re going to drive drunk, don’t buy these types of things to jazz up your truck. A Meeker County man today lost his attempt to have his DUI license revocation thrown out. His tail light covers did him in. Joseph Hoekstra was driving his pickup truck in December 2011 when state trooper Casey Meagher, Read more →
by Bob Collins

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Minnesota superiority, kids who stick up for bullied kids, and a woman’s hockey history in St. Cloud (5×8 – 11/25/13)

Minnesota superiority, kids who stick up for bullied kids, and a woman’s hockey history in St. Cloud (5×8 – 11/25/13)

Why Minnesota works and Wisconsin doesn't, the band of brothers who stick up for a first-grader, the woman behind the hockey microphone, the B-17 flyover in Green Bay, and why Dilbert's creator wanted his father to die.
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Minnesota native in anti-hunt crosshairs

Minnesota native in anti-hunt crosshairs

Minnesota native Melissa Bachman likes hunting big game but her recent lion hunt has the Internet furious.
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