Bob Collins
What would sports be like without fantasy games, hands off the chili, you picked a bad week to be an animal on the planet, is having a child a rational decision, and wiping out the word ‘negro.’
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Non-New Yorkers probably want to know if this decision carries any legal weight with other cities and states interesting in regulating soft drinks to reduce what many consider to be a epidemic of obesity.
It doesn’t.
Embracing winter: The Beargrease
Where you think bottled spring water comes from may not be close to where it really comes from.
Minnesota to Key West, why do people keep building in flood zones, more money for Minnesota elected officials, the people who dump their trash wherever they want, and how letters from strangers saved a kid’s life.
Who roots for the sea?
The value of public humiliation
There’s nothing quite so patriotic — occasionally entertaining, and, yes, sometimes loathsome — than the few minutes elected officials on municipal committees give to citizens to says whatever they want to say in the time allotted at the open forum portion of meetings.
In Fergus Falls, you’ll be needing one of these now.
It’s hard to argue with the selection of this year’s winner of the JFK Library’s Profile of Courage Award.
Another step for a health exchange, when the ice gives way, the lure of the sled dog race, the reward for loyalty in Rochester, and budget cuts and bad weather.
Do gifted learners get enough attention, the 86-year-old face of voter fraud, people swamped in rising economic tide, what’s it like to know a drone is looking for you, and when can same-sex couples kiss in public?