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5 x 8: Racism never came up in Zimmerman jury deliberations

5 x 8: Racism never came up in Zimmerman jury deliberations

A question of race. Or not. What kids know that adults don't. The electric Lindbergh. Tales of the Frankenstein rabbit. And the new bamboo menace in the Northland.
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob (7/15/13)

Life in prison for Aaron Schaffhausen, the Justice Department opens its probe into the Trayvon Martin killin, can retirement lead to Alzheimer's, Washington's minimum-wage showdown with Walmart, and the birth of the vomit fee. Here's today's news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current.
by Bob Collins

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Pay it forward. Fifty-five times

A situation in a community north of Boston on Saturday takes the pay-it-forward craze to a new level. Generally, it starts when someone at a drive-thru pays for the food of the person behind them in line. It’s a nice day-brightener. Consider this story from Amesbury, Mass., where 55 consecutive cars in line at the…
by Bob Collins

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The lost art of the baseball scorecard

The lost art of the baseball scorecard

Documenting the demise of the lost art of baseball score keeping.
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When small town Minnesota papers die, voices go silent

Small-town newspaper fold because there aren't enough people who care about people's dreams and the places they're going.
by Bob Collins

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5 x 8: Widening the circle of compassion

5 x 8: Widening the circle of compassion

What can you do in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict that can make a difference, the once-a-day-phone-call economy, in praise of the innovators, to be a farmer in Minnesota, and for the love of baseball.
by Bob Collins

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How a TV station’s amateur reporting led to racist joke

How a TV station’s amateur reporting led to racist joke

A San Francisco area TV station is getting an unwarranted free pass now that the National Transportation Safety Board has acknowledged that a summer intern “confirmed” the names of the pilots in charge of Asiana Flight 214, the one that crashed last week on a San Francisco runway. http://youtu.be/YU2m3xf99R4 The names, of course, were offensive…
by Bob Collins

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Photo: Inside Asiana

Photo: Inside Asiana

The NTSB just released this picture of the interior or the jet that crashed in San Francisco last week. The pilots had initially told people to stay in their seats after the plane landed. The picture confirms that it was pretty poor advice.
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob (7/11/13)

Shades of Brodkorb at the Capitol, a tuition freeze at the University of Wisconsin, even for Minnesota kids, a compromise takes shape on student loan interest rates, no food stamps in the farm bill, closing arguments in the Trayvon Martin case, and did DNA just prove who the Boston Strangler was? Here’s today’s news conversation…
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