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What it’s like when your truck breaks through the ice

With any luck, anyone thinking about driving on lake ice when authorities are warning them about thin spots will have a second thought after they hear Lyle Grohman's story about what happened when his truck fell through the ice in southern Minnesota.
by Bob Collins

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The world loses Minnesota’s ‘Mad Hugger’

Around the time Robert T. Smith, the Minneapolis Tribune columnist, gave him his nickname, Plut began to realize he wasn’t just a college professor; he was a beloved college professor.
by Bob Collins

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At Lincoln Memorial, students mock Native American

At Lincoln Memorial, students mock Native American

If history is any guide, these school students mocking a Native American elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial will be identified and claim they were just joking and, hey, what's the matter with you that you can't take a joke in America anymore?
by Bob Collins

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Embracing winter: the perfect skate

Peter Cox's excellent story on the perfect ice conditions on area lakes has a life lesson to it: you can't always get what you want. And one's man's trash... and all that.
by Bob Collins

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Newspaper apologizes for refusing to run obit with anti-Trump line

The obituaries editor of the Louisville Courier Journal was just looking out for the danger posed to the nation by a dead 87-year-old woman who didn't much care for the person who is president of the United States.
by Bob Collins

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