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Critic: ‘Boomers making assassination anniversary about themselves’

Ban baby boomers http://t.co/wV8MYpfI71 — Dan D'Addario (@DPD_) November 22, 2013 Did you expect a generational dispute to break out today? From what I can tell from my Twitter feed today, a lot of people are watching either the CBS or NBC “live” feeds of this moment in 1963 today. NPR and other organizations are…
by Bob Collins

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Hoops giant: Vern Mikkelsen, one of the great Minneapolis Lakers, dies

Hoops giant: Vern Mikkelsen, one of the great Minneapolis Lakers, dies

One of the most famous Minneapolis Lakers has died. Vern Mikkelsen, an Askov, Minn., native, died Thursday night, the Star Tribune’s Patrick Reusse reports. He was 85. He had a stroke in 2002 and found it difficult to talk, so he started writing more and wrote his biography. “My stroke, ironically, gave me something to Read more →
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A letter from Jackie

A letter from Jackie

A lot of people in my generation took the Kennedy assassination out on Lyndon Johnson, not because we thought he had anything to do with it, but because he wasn’t Jack Kennedy.
by Bob Collins

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The great burrito scare of 2013

Sometimes, a news story perfectly reveals the extent to which the terrorists "have won."
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Mysteries of history that will never be solved (5×8 -11/22/13)

Mysteries of history that will never be solved (5×8 -11/22/13)

JFK: Maybe you can’t figure out history, why we should welcome winter, what you can do for your country, the toughest competition: girls, and the price of Bat Kid.
by Bob Collins

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Obama administration: ‘No photos, please’

Obama administration: ‘No photos, please’

A long-simmering feud is boiling again between the news media and the Obama administration, which has emerged as a closed administration.
by Bob Collins

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How planes land at wrong airports

How planes land at wrong airports

Update 12:57 p.m. – Watch the Dreamliner attempt to take off. (KIRO) Update 1:18 p.m. – It had no problem taking off with room to spare. A few years ago, I took an MPR News website producer for a ride in an airplane to show him his colleague’s outstanding airmanship. This is our approach to…
by Bob Collins

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Time to ask different questions in mental health care

Time to ask different questions in mental health care

This week’s stabbing of a state senator in Virginia at the hands of his mentally-ill son, who then took his own life, has now sparked the usual follow-up: “How could this happen?”
by Bob Collins

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Burying Oswald, St. Paul streetcars, Lake Pepin monsters, and Thanksgiving shopping lies (5×8 – 11/21/13)

Burying Oswald, St. Paul streetcars, Lake Pepin monsters, and Thanksgiving shopping lies (5×8 – 11/21/13)

The reporters who buried Oswald, does Saint Paul need streetcars again, the monster in Lake Pepin, the lies we repeat about Thanksgiving shopping, and the Fox 9 reporter’s face plant.
by Bob Collins

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Gloria Steinem in the ‘pink ghetto’

Gloria Steinem in the ‘pink ghetto’

You probably won’t hear much about Gloria Steinem being awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom today by President Barack Obama. Former President Bill Clinton and current presidential pal Oprah Winfrey seem to be getting top billing in news coverage. Where did Steinem, an activist and writer for more than four decades, end up in today’s Read more →
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