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Politics

Politics · Sports

Big flap brewing over future of the duck stamp

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 6, 2016, 1:56 PM Apr 6, 2016
18

Each year, artists submit portraits of waterfowl in the wild and one is selected for the stamp, the money from which is used to protect waterfowl habitat.

Now, the Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing that the portraits include other birds that aren’t hunted migratory waterfowl as a way to gin up interests from birders in the stamps.
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Politics

St. Louis County to allow ATVs on all roads and highways

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 6, 2016, 8:05 AM Apr 6, 2016
5

In Minnesota, you have to be at least 16 to drive a car but if the St. Louis County Board gets its way, a 12-year-old will be able to drive on the highway and any other road as long as s(he) is on an ATV. Read more →

Politics

Southern lawmakers embracing a more non-secular state

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2016, 12:40 PM Apr 5, 2016
41

The Tennessee Senate is moving along a bill that would make the Bible the official book of Tennessee.

It now needs only the signature of the state’s governor to become law. Read more →

Politics

Voting in Wisconsin? Bring ID — and perseverance

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2016, 9:06 AM Apr 5, 2016
37

The New York Times expertly describes in its editorial today on how Wisconsin did its part to suppress voting. Read more →

Politics

Lake Elmo airport shovels sand against neighbors’ tide

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2016, 8:07 AM Apr 5, 2016
31

What’s happening in Lake Elmo is happening all over America. People move near a small airport and, inevitably, they begin to object to alleged property value declines caused by the airport. Read more →

Politics

Open arms for new citizens in Moorhead

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2016, 6:36 AM Apr 5, 2016
1

A family came to the United States 18 years ago in search of a better life and they found it.

They’ve found something else here; something that goes unnoticed in today’s political atmosphere. They found open arms. Read more →

Politics

Why there’s a Mexican flag flying over Vancouver

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 4, 2016, 10:45 AM Apr 4, 2016
3

Diego Saul Rayna was pretty proud of the work he and his construction friends did on a building in Vancouver, so — as tradition dictates — he hung the flag of his country on the top.

The building was the Trump tower in Vancouver. Read more →

Politics

Free trips legal for MN rep and family, but smell bad

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 4, 2016, 6:32 AM Apr 4, 2016
28

People in Congress have been doing this for years and while it has a faint, stale aroma, there’s nothing to prove it’s unethical in the political body that decides for itself what unethical is.
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Politics · Sports

Is pink gear the answer to getting more women in the woods to hunt?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2016, 5:03 PM Mar 30, 2016
12

Anything Wisconsin can do, Minnesota can do the same, apparently. Read more →

Politics

Are we a less huggable people?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2016, 1:24 PM Mar 30, 2016
14

Perhaps you remember this video from a couple of years ago, when Ken E Nwadike Jr, who runs an events company, gave away free hugs at the Boston Marathon, a year after the terrorist bombing killed innocent people and united a city in the process. Read more →

Politics

Obama chides media for not doing what he’s preventing them from doing

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2016, 8:32 AM Mar 30, 2016
14

Politico’s senior editor has pushed back in a big way against President Barack Obama’s lecturing the media the other day on how to their jobs.
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Crime and Justice · Health · Politics

With all attention focused on Jamar Clark, little left for John Birkeland

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2016, 6:40 AM Mar 30, 2016
9

With so much activist and media attention focused on Jamar Clark, there’s been little energy left for the community to wonder why John Birkeland of Roseville had to die because he once gave a wrong name to police. Read more →

Politics

A liberal was behind push for guns at GOP convention

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2016, 8:34 AM Mar 29, 2016
28

Yesterday, the Secret Service dismissed the idea, which actually came from a liberal Democrat, CBS News’ Arden Farhi reports today. Read more →

Politics

Wisconsin editorial: Trump ‘unfit to be president’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2016, 7:03 AM Mar 29, 2016
21

Donald Trump is heading to Wisconsin where a pre-visit round of appearances on conservative talk radio didn’t go so well yesterday. Today’s visit is the candidate’s first and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has hung out the unwelcome mat.
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Politics

Al Franken as VP?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2016, 9:22 AM Mar 27, 2016
19

The irony? Franken is the one politician in Minnesota who isn’t obviously trying to get a bigger gig.
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