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Mary and Bob (audio) – 3/22/13

Bob Collins March 22, 2013, 4:38 PM Mar 22, 2013

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A transparency bill for concert tickets goes down to defeat in Minnesota, abortion bills advance in North Dakota, air traffic control towers close and the S.S. Badger can keep belching coal smoke, it just can’t dump ash in Lake Michigan.

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Two airport towers to close in Minnesota

Bob Collins March 22, 2013, 2:40 PM Mar 22, 2013

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Airports in Anoka and St. Cloud to lose air traffic control towers.

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Minnesota wins college tournament by not cheating. Unlike you, Harvard

Bob Collins March 22, 2013, 1:15 PM Mar 22, 2013

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Congratulations, Minnesota! You’ve got a new college team champion.

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Weather

Groundhog to get comeuppance

Bob Collins March 22, 2013, 1:06 PM Mar 22, 2013

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Spring may never get here but at least someone is doing something about it.

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Surveys and trivia

The NewsCut Quiz

Bob Collins March 22, 2013, 11:08 AM Mar 22, 2013

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Here is a quiz on some of the stories of the week. Try your luck.

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Five by 8

D-Day for air traffic control towers (5×8 – 3/22/13)

Bob Collins March 22, 2013, 7:08 AM Mar 22, 2013

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The air safety equation, a constitutional test by the side of the road in Eagan, same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court, what if they lived, and the public radio show bracket.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 3/21/13

Bob Collins March 21, 2013, 5:01 PM Mar 21, 2013

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What do you do with a pot-sniffing police dog after your state legalizes marijuana?

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From the ‘worst people on the planet’ file

Bob Collins March 21, 2013, 3:09 PM Mar 21, 2013

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Until you have an elderly parent with diminished faculties, scams that target them seem too stupid to have any chance of success. But they do and with great regularity.

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Jobs increasing. Optimism fading.

Bob Collins March 21, 2013, 1:58 PM Mar 21, 2013

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Our optimism for the future is declining as the economy recovers more.

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State of Hockey, indeed

Bob Collins March 21, 2013, 1:02 PM Mar 21, 2013

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Culled from today’s bill filings at the Minnesota House of Representatives

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The mystery rings

Bob Collins March 21, 2013, 12:35 PM Mar 21, 2013

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The world is full of people just trying to do the right thing.

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Why doesn’t it feel like the good times?

Bob Collins March 21, 2013, 11:12 AM Mar 21, 2013

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The most interesting — to me — statistic from today’s news that Minnesota’s unemployment rate has held steady at 5.5 percent in February is this one: The state is just 1,000 jobs short of its previous high point for jobs in February 2008.

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