Bob Collins
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Archives for January 2019
Paul TostoThe latest research dive into internet hoaxes, politics and fake news will — sadly — not surprise you. Your grandparents are really bad at telling the difference between fact and fiction on Facebook. Read more →
Matt MikusMinnesota tops another state-ranking list, this time looking at which state is best to raise a family. Read more →
Baby Jesus stealing stories don’t often come with happy endings. But this one does. Read more →
Baseball hates change. Things get changed, players perform differently. The change gets blamed, for better or worse. That’s where we’re headed in this year’s Minnesota Twins baseball season. Read more →
Telling reporters they can’t say something is almost never a good strategy. Monday morning’s Exhibit A; Julian Assange. Read more →
TSA agents, deemed essential, are still not being paid during the government shutdown.
According to reports, many are simply not showing up for work. Read more →
With the benefit of hindsight, Jane Lowe, of Halifax, N.S., realizes that she shouldn’t have asked her husband, Jim, to hide her good jewelry in case someone broke into their house while they were away.
In hindsight, Jim probably shouldn’t have stashed it in a bag of clothing. Read more →
A minimum wage hike makes for a convenient punching bag for managements that just can’t figure out why employees aren’t more loyal these days. Read more →
The price of insulin tripled between 2002 and 2013. Since 2008, drug companies have increased the price 10 times. Now, a group that tracks prescription drug prices says companies are starting the year by increasing prices on almost 300 medications. Read more →
The frightening part of what happened to Apple’s stock yesterday is how much the U.S. economy depends on the cultists of Apple, who religiously have bought products that are overpriced even though the updates are hardly so impressive that people should shell out ridiculous amounts of money for them.
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Construction is already underway. The Twins open the season on March 28, against the Cleveland Indians, who have become an entirely beatable team in the off-season. Read more →
It was opening day of Congress today and while the attention is on the new members, our favorite part about opening days — as we’ll see in a week in the Minnesota Legislature — are the kids of congresspeople who get to sit with their parents and see them one last time over the next two years.
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Our soft spot for Connolly comes primarily from this fact: he’s one of the world’s great storytellers. In 2011, he got on a trike and rode the old Route 66 across four fabulous episodes, stopping along the way, of course, to reveal that once you peel away the politics-fueled nonsense, we’re a pretty absurd people.
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