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A win for big slurpies
Non-New Yorkers probably want to know if this decision carries any legal weight with other cities and states interesting in regulating soft drinks to reduce what many consider to be a epidemic of obesity. It doesn't.
Water politics
Where you think bottled spring water comes from may not be close to where it really comes from.
The end of Daniel’s journey (5×8 – 3/11/13)
Minnesota to Key West, why do people keep building in flood zones, more money for Minnesota elected officials, the people who dump their trash wherever they want, and how letters from strangers saved a kid's life.
Gov. Dayton drops the business tax plan, the economy picks up more steam, Republicans find it's hard to endorse same-sex marriage, South Dakota teacher can pack heat, but Norway teachers can't make their students drink blood.
The form of government
There's nothing quite so patriotic -- occasionally entertaining, and, yes, sometimes loathsome -- than the few minutes elected officials on municipal committees give to citizens to says whatever they want to say in the time allotted at the open forum portion of meetings. In Fergus Falls, you'll be needing one of these now.