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The sound of dying neighborhoods

Unless something changes, 2013 in the Twin Cities may be the summer when people and politicians gave up and ceded their neighborhoods to the gangs. Just last week, for example, a beating on the East Side of Saint Paul led its residents to beg for officials to do something — anything, really. Nobody seems to…
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob (8/20/13)

Who shoots people "just for fun?" Plus: Should Wisconsin raise the speed limit? Guns at the Minnesota Capitol. Aid to Egypt. Big bucks from cigarette taxes.
by Bob Collins

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Welcome to the Al Jazeera era

Welcome to the Al Jazeera era

The plug was pulled on Al Gore’s Current TV this afternoon and the Al Jazeera America ‏ era is underway. Qatar-based Al Jazeera paid $500 million to buy Current TV. “Some people ask, ‘Is it jihad journalism?’ It’s hard to have a dignified conversation about that,” Paul Beban, the Denver correspondent, tells the Denver Post.…
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To the people who say ‘you can’t’

To the people who say ‘you can’t’

There’s always someone to tell you you can’t do something. There are people who will listen to them. And people who won’t. Pete Gustin reads copy for a living, even though he’s legally blind. He just put a video together explaining how he does it.
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Crosslake pilot stoned at time of crash, NTSB says

The National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot of a small plane that crashed last summer near Brainerd was probably stoned while flying. The NTSB has posted the findings of its investigation into the crash on Upper Whitefish Lake near Crosslake. It said the medical examiner found drug paraphernalia in the shirt pocked of the…
by Bob Collins

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5 x 8: Mind if I vape?

5 x 8: Mind if I vape?

The e-cigarette debate, the empty nest, why farmers don't quit, a free shot at college, and hate 101.
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Mary and Bob – 8/19/13

Mubarak could be back, Wisconsin spikes the idea of employers asking for Facebook passwords, Paul Bunyan humor falls flat on Bemidji, and a Pennsylvania county clerk turns DOMA on its head.
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Court rules against man who wouldn’t drive faster

The Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled the state has the right to strip the driver's license of anyone who refuses officers' orders to drive faster.
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