NewsCut

Where the baseball is bad and the beer is cheap

Bob Collins March 26, 2013, 12:27 PM Mar 26, 2013

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We’re standing by waiting for the cost of beer to drop more at Target Field following news that the Boston Red Sox are dropping their beer prices this year.

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Audio: Supreme Court on Prop 8

Bob Collins March 26, 2013, 12:00 PM Mar 26, 2013

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Here’s the audio from today’s Supreme Court hearing on California’s Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage.

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The people we meet along the way

Bob Collins March 26, 2013, 11:57 AM Mar 26, 2013

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Just one last post about Daniel Alvarez, the kayaker who successfully completed his goal to kayak from the Northwest Angle, down the Mississippi and on to Key West.

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Baby steps and the price of your home

Bob Collins March 26, 2013, 10:51 AM Mar 26, 2013

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Times are good again — sort of — for homeowners.

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Five by 8

The homeless kid (5×8 – 3/26/13)

Bob Collins March 26, 2013, 7:03 AM Mar 26, 2013

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Is there a will to confront homelessness, the boy in the urn, closing the newspaper paywall loophole, who still uses corncob pipes, and why can’t the U of M’s minority students get theater opportunities?

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 3/25/13

Bob Collins March 25, 2013, 4:40 PM Mar 25, 2013

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Who’s responsible for the botched predictions of how much pulltab revenue would be available to give to a Vikings stadium? Plus: The $6,000 pricetag to watch this week’s Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage.

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U leak shows how not to fire a ‘great human being’

Bob Collins March 25, 2013, 3:16 PM Mar 25, 2013

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There are plenty of people who are upset that the University of Minnesota men’s basketball team fell on its face this season, but you’d have to be cold-hearted not to feel with the way coach Tubby Smith was fired.

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Twin Cities from space

Bob Collins March 25, 2013, 1:31 PM Mar 25, 2013

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It took a long time to get the current photography-happy astronauts on the International Space Station to snap an overhead shot of the Twin Cities. But it finally happened today.

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Poverty in color

Bob Collins March 25, 2013, 1:21 PM Mar 25, 2013

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If Haiti can’t end poverty, at least it can gussy it up a little bit.

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Open thread: Can U of M basketball be fixed?

Bob Collins March 25, 2013, 11:59 AM Mar 25, 2013

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Go ahead, make the argument below to a good basketball player on why they should want to go to the U.

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Is smoking a mental health issue?

Bob Collins March 25, 2013, 11:34 AM Mar 25, 2013

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The mentally ill smoke to help control their symptoms, and die of heart disease at an alarming rate.

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Five by 8

Guesswork, journalists, and the Supreme Court (5×8 – 3/25/13)

Bob Collins March 25, 2013, 7:05 AM Mar 25, 2013

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A week for same-sex marriage, when native casinos fall on hard times, the inseparables, prom season begins, and the winter bike commuter.

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Mary and Bob

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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