Bob Collins
The sad part about today’s Facebook posting from Fox 9 morning news host Alix Kendall is that it’s not even the most horrific example of the kind of venom spewed toward TV anchors in this town. Read more →
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It doesn’t look like it but there’s some fine airmanship and a little bit of ‘Sully’ Sullenberger in a plane crash in Washington state yesterday. Read more →
‘I am never going to let this dog go,’ Christi Smith, of Brooklyn Park, told the Pioneer Press in 2013. ‘I owe him for the rest of his life.’
Alas, the rest of TaterTot’s life was short. The pit bull, who became famous for saving Smith’s son, was euthanized yesterday. Cancer. Read more →
It happened last Wednesday evening at a Carolina Mudcats game.
Air Force Sgt. Lance Daigle returned from deployment in Kuwait. His children, Cameron, 11, and Karley, 13, were to throw out the first pitch, believing they’d won an online raffle.
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When a newspaper in a small Iowa community won a Pulitzer Prize a few weeks ago, it earned justifiable attention and some that, frankly, bordered on the condescending from the big city media. Of course, great journalism can be done more than a day’s drive from the nearest ocean. And lots of other smart things can happen away from the coasts too.
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The Iron Range is about to learn what metro drivers have finally figured out. Roundabouts aren’t so bad. Read more →
Up until last year, students at MIT, recognizing the gravity of tradition, tossed a piano off a dorm roof each spring for more than 40 years. Why? Because they could.
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Since 1872, the Worthington Daily Globe has been a daily newspaper, except for Sunday. Those days are over. Read more →
There isn’t any room for nuance in the laws surrounding flying, not since 19 men hijacked airliners and flew them into buildings.
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Dick and Donna Mueller, who started the cheese curd craze at the fair decades ago, want to retire and hand the booth over to younger members of the family. The State Fair says ‘no’. Read more →
Speed limits in construction zones are some of the most universally ignored laws in Minnesota. Read more →
If you believe that time is so relative that it is whatever we think it is, you can perhaps identify with John Doe, the unnamed person who wants to change his birthdate to April 10, 1976.
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A murderer is getting the nation’s attention today for taking his own life. If he hadn’t been a player in the National Football League, nobody would care. We should choose better heroes. Here’s one. Read more →
Dick and Donna Mueller started the cheese curd craze with an iconic yellow building on Dan Patch Avenue, but they’re ready to retire. Read more →
It’s the end of an era on Wisconsin’s license plates.
There are no more six-character combinations left in America’s Dairyland.
The state will go to seven.
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