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A reporter’s job is among the most stressful? Oh, please

The flaw in the survey is that people define what is stressful and while soldiers and firefighters would pass muster by any standard -- potentially dying on the job seems like a reasonable benchmark -- and maybe airline pilots can claim stress from the perception of danger, there's no explaining why broadcasters and news reporters (No. 7 on the list) make the list other than being notorious complainers.
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Mankato grain silos to be area’s largest mural

Mankato grain silos to be area’s largest mural

There's not much a community can do with abandoned, concrete silos, the kind that dot Minneapolis' Hiawatha Avenue and the Prospect Park area. Or is there? Mankato has the right idea. An artist is going to treat them like the canvas they are and make art.
by Bob Collins

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Drug trafficking and the art of probable cause

There's nothing wrong with nabbing drug traffickers through probable cause, of course, but the cases highlight how easy it is to obtain it when an officer is looking for a reason to pull someone over who doesn't look quite right. Sometimes the police are right; sometimes they're not.
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The ‘science’ of misogyny costs professor his job

Professor Alessandro Strum, a guest professor, is no longer welcome at the European particle physics research center CERN. Not after he offered his own scientific theory at a symposium on gender equity - that women are not as able at physics as men.
by Bob Collins

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Court clears way for boys to try out for girls dance teams in MN

Dmitri Moua, 16, just wanted to dance but it took him making a federal case out of it to get him to try out for a girls competitive high school dance team in Roseville. There are no boys teams and the Minnesota State High School League dictates the rules and said "no" to Moua and Zachary Greenwald, a dancer in Hopkins.
by Bob Collins

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Last Iditarod hurrah for 67-year-old Minnesota musher

Last Iditarod hurrah for 67-year-old Minnesota musher

Cindy Gallea, of Wykoff, Minn., is currently in last place in the Iditarod sleg dog race in Alaska, pulling into the Rohn checkpoint on Tuesday, and if you're prone to chuckle about her standing, answer this: 'What are you accomplishing today?'
by Bob Collins

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School learns the hard way: Student actors and KKK robes are a bad fit

There is, perhaps, a debate to be had on the matter of artistic expression and racist symbols in history, but it's inarguable that if a school district puts on a play featuring students in KKK robes, it should see the backlash coming from miles away. A Sioux Falls school didn't.
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Facebook post kills a ND horseracing career

Facebook kills careers. So does being a little too invested in a political issue. Ask the manager of a North Dakota horse track who, on his personal page, weighed into a bill in the North Dakota Legislature that would provide some assistance to the North Dakota Horse Park in paying special assessments to the City of Fargo.
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