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No Eaux Claires music festival in 2019, organizers say

No Eaux Claires music festival in 2019, organizers say

Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner started the festival in his hometown four years ago. But summer music festivals are becoming musical tap rooms -- there are too many of them now for even the good ones to survive.
by Bob Collins

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When the news hurts a good cause

Newspeople can get a bad rap. Sometimes they deserve it. For sure, it's difficult to condense a lot of information into the bite-sized morsels that result in local TV news. But sometimes, the telling can do immense damage, particular if journalists think that every story must have a good guy and a bad guy.
by Bob Collins

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School shootings from the shooter’s perspective

Friday marks the sixth anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut. Each year at this time, Sandy Hook Promise, the group formed by family members of some of those killed in the massacre, releases a devastating PSA to help people recognize the signs of someone who might use violence in school.
by Bob Collins

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UW System punishes La Crosse chancellor over free speech week invitation to adult film actress

Joe Gow's bosses have done everything but draw him a diagram of how to clean out a desk and announce a resignation, but he's hanging in there at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, still getting pelted with criticism for paying former porn actress Nina Hartley to speak on campus for Free Speech Week.
by Bob Collins

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A Duluth woman’s path to homelessness

Roberta Kriegh, 37, has been homeless since the dog she depended on for emotional support died. It's hard to see how she has any path out of her problem.
by Bob Collins

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