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Sure, your little spunky football team played our little spunky football team even yesterday, Wisconsin. But that's about as close as Wisconsin gets in the ongoing battle between Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Writing in the New York Times, University of Minnesota political science professor Larry Jacobs writes that 

Minnesota has it all over Wisconsin when it comes to the economy:

"The lesson from the upper Midwest is that rigid anti-tax dogma fails to deliver a convincing optimistic vision that widens economic opportunity and security," Jacobs says.

Even so, he notes, a large percentage of businesspeople contend Minnesota is one of the least business-friendly states.

The waterboy for the fifth-grade football team at a school in Bridgewater, Mass., was teased mercilessly for wearing a coat and tie on game days. He's a first-grader. He's 6 years old. So his team rallied around him.

Danny Keefe is a little bit different, the 

Meanwhile, two high school football teams faced off on Saturday in a semifinal football game. One team is a perennial powerhouse, but the other is from a town that was all but leveled by a tornado, NPR reported. It was from Washington, Ill., where one person was killed.

"The biggest thing you can do to help your town is give them that two-hour escape of bringing you the chance to go watch our guys play," the head coach of the Sacred Heart-Griffin Cyclones said.

The parents in Springfield also chartered buses for the Washington contingent.

As near as we've been able to tell, this is a first for Division I hockey.

Gina Carlson, an Avon, Minn., native and a senior at St. Cloud State University, made a little history over the weekend by doing this:

 at KVSC, possibly the first to call a Division I game when she called the weekend series between the Huskies and Colorado College.

A B-17 provided the flyover at Green Bay's Lambeau Field yesterday afternoon before the Packers-Vikings game. Here's what it looked like from the ground:

Woman jumps from Oakland Coliseum's third deck. Good Samaritan saves her

Scott Adams, the man who writes the Dilbert comic strip, spent part of the weekend

, and not being allowed to help make it happen:

His father died a few hours after he penned his essay.

 Video: Times must be better than we've been led to believe. Thanks to advertising, the Fargo Forum is putting out the heaviest paper it ever has on Thanksgiving. Like other newspapers, it's already being assembled. There's no day off for newspaper carriers, either. (

The Incredible Story Of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News

 The Ohio State Band has already done Michael Jackson moonwalking this season. The Gettysburg Address was the next logical theme.

Would lower executive salaries serve the public interest in the U.S.?

(9-12 p.m.) - First hour: The Iran nuclear agreement.

Second hour: The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute recently issued new recommendations for the use of Statin drugs for cardiac patients. There was push back to the recommendation from many in the medical community. In the midst of all the controversy we want to find out what patients should ask their doctors, and how doctors plan to talk with patients about the new recommendations.

Third hour: Talking Volumes with Pat Conroy

 (12-1 pm) - Jean Shepherd's 45-minute original radio broadcast on the day of the Kennedy funeral, Monday November 25, 1963. Jean Shepherd reflects on American culture, the meaning of the Kennedy presidency, and the way it ended Shepherd was a master storyteller, an icon on WOR Radio when radio ruled the overnights and people would sit in the dark and listen to people they thought of us family.

 (3-6:30 p.m.) - Some authors might object to a big-time Hollywood star messing mightily with one of their novels. Sylvester Stallone recently adapted Minnesota writer Chuck Logan's popular book "Homefront." The movie opens nationwide on Wednesday, and Logan fans will find quite a few changes in the story line. But Logan is more than OK with that. He'll talk with MPR's Euan Kerr.

"Divided and United" is a collection of Civil War music. It features old songs sung by the artists of today. Old Crow Medicine Show, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton. NPR listens in on some lesser-known songs interpreted in a new way.

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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.

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

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