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Hard times hit NPR

The revenue woes that have decimated commercial media visited NPR today when the public radio network announced its cutting its staff by 10 percent.
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The people who stop to help

The people who stop to help

(There are comments attached to this post.) You won’t see a more dramatic picture than this one tweeted by KARE 11 this morning. An accident occurred at the intersection of Highway 55 and General Mills Boulevard between a van and a tanker. The station says one person died when a woman in a van turned…
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5 x 8: The rich got richer in economic meltdown

5 x 8: The rich got richer in economic meltdown

The people who caused the economic collapse are doing very well, the woman shamed for using an EBT card in Edina, the kids who grind and the ones who don't, an honorable Lanesboro man returns a sword to Japan, and the fracking map revealed.
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Voyager I, time traveler

Voyager I, time traveler

Now we know for sure. The solar system is big. Really big.
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Mary and Bob: Why don’t people care about space? (9/12)

Syria's president agrees to a deal with a complicating "if", Colorado floods, the renegade Pennsylvania clerk giving out marriage licenses to same-sex couples stops, the Voyager I leaves the solar system while everyone shrugs, and repeat driving drunk won't be a misdemeanor in Wisconsin anymore.
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In Vergas, Tarzan is in his last days

In Vergas, Tarzan is in his last days

Is shooting a fenced-in animal sport?
by Bob Collins

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Why sportswriters go soft on the teams they cover

Why sportswriters go soft on the teams they cover

In January, Boston media critic Alan Siegel took down sports journalists in the city in an article (The Fellowship of the Miserable) that reverberated through the sports departments of local media organizations nationwide. Siegel charged that the local scribes were going soft on the teams, coaches, players, and managers they were assigned to cover. He…
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5 x 8: Dear America, from Vlad Putin

Vladimir Putin's letter to the USA, transparency and Minneapolis crime statistics, 'Pink's' obituary, the long mountain climb for several disabled soldiers, and no child left untableted.
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