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With taxpayer help, insurance companies make good money

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in the Obama administration, the woes of insurance companies and premium-paying customers have always been front-page news as the shock-to-the-system health care law gets implemented. But what's this? The non-profit insurance companies in Minnesota have made a ton of money in the last year.
by Bob Collins

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Sick Twins burn melts outfield snow in Cleveland

The Cleveland media spent much of the weekend complaining that the Minnesota Twins didn't build a domed ballpark, thanks to a stiff wind and 37 degree temperatures for the opening series of the 2019 baseball stadium.
by Bob Collins

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#MyLastShot campaign pressures media to show the bodies

The Columbine High School shooting 20 years ago this month is the massacre that started the wave of mass shootings in the modern crime era. We've come a long way since then and many shootings never make it to the front page; they're that common now.
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Docs, families no fans of ‘Fortnite’

Docs, families no fans of ‘Fortnite’

'We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside. He took a hammer to the windshield,' Michael Rich, a pediatrician and director of the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital.
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Bucky Badger goes to the Big Dance

Dolly Bauer, formerly of Durand, Wis., has dementia now and lives at a memory care facility in Eau Claire. Music and dance brings her back from the fog of Alzheimer's.
by Bob Collins

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Don’t try to outrun the cops in Austin, Minn.

Don’t try to outrun the cops in Austin, Minn.

Officer Joshua Bradley, a rookie on the Austin, Minn., police department couldn't resist a challenge last week when he saw Taige Iverson, who runs 100 meter hurdles, practicing with her high school teammates. Bradley did OK for an old guy of 21.
by Bob Collins

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AP: Call racism what it is

For obvious reasons, journalists get a lot more worked up about changes in the Associated Press Stylebook -- the defacto writing guide for newspeople -- than normal people, but occasionally a change signals a cultural or ethical shift in a buttoned-down profession.
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