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@Zazamyodor "because we want to win" Coach of my rec league hockey team when I asked why I couldn't get a shift on the ice.

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I gave up vacations for years because work had projects that needed doing. Audiences needed to be served. My newsroom projects were understaffed so I put in extra effort. In a couple of months I'll be 69 and what I learned in those years: Do NOT Fucking do that.

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It should surprise no one that people in the parts of Minnesota where science is most ridiculed are falling through the ice in record numbers.

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Every time I come into Minneapolis, which is often, I'm reminded how utterly complicit local news media is in amplifying a distorted view of things.

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It's the 12th anniversary of the most incredible picture ever published in the Pioneer Press. By Ben Garvin.

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Thoughts and prayers

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Remember that time the governor and legislature caved on staffing levels and lower health costs at Mayo's insistence?

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The Twins have a sensory room now for autistic fans who might become overwhelmed during games .

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A mass shooting in Minneapolis couldn't even make it to the first section of the newspaper, let alone the front page. What a world.

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MN DFL: "let's stop slaughtering kids and control guns" MN GOP: "Unfair, you have to address crime at its root cause." MN DFL: " Let's address poverty and systemic equity that leads to crime." MN GOP: " Woke! Woke! Woke! "

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Regrettably, I dropped my support of MPR today. Not regrettably, I gave it to @RacketMN .

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Dan Rather's substack is quite good. More history than you'll find in what passes for history class.

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Instant classic

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Wait. You're telling me we"ll pick kids up at their house and chauffeur them to school AND pick them up even if their parents have cars and could take them? #freelunch

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Maybe one of the reasons the labor force hasn't returned to work is because 750,000+ people are dead.

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@MPRnews If only there were a way to attract workers. Like, oh I don't know, paying a living wage

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JFC

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@TalkinBaseball_ @YamadaSANSPO Sometimes -- not often enough -- baseball actually stands for something.

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I don't know. But it seems to me the least -- the very least -- we could do to protect a free society is to stop vacationing and spending money in either Florida or Texas .

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@MacWBishop It's all out in the open now. No more pretense. This is the Ku Klux Klan.

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@shannonrwatts @lakeshow73 Just as the Founding Fathers and the Republican Party intended.

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Trump should be in prison but Biden is one of the most competent presidents of my lifetime (I was born in Eisenhower admin). I have no problem with giving him a second term. Sorry to ruin your narrative, @StribOpinion .

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WCCO mentions Halloween blizzard [Drink]

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Today is the 10 year anniversary of the publication of perhaps the greatest news photograph ever taken in Minnesota. @bengarvin took it.

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The use of taxpayer money to feed kids who don't need it basically puts money back in their parents' pockets. MN Republicans, who want more of the state money put back in people's pockets, object to putting money back in people's pockets. That's basically your Republican Party.

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It's 4:20. And I think I speak for a grateful nation. #marylucia

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John Autey of the Pioneer Press. Lovely

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I whipped up a gin and tonic just in case the world ended with that storm. Now that it's over, I'm whipping up a gin and tonic to celebrate continued existence.

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I always thought I'd never leave MN as long as the kids and grandkids are here but today I find myself asking, "do I really like them all that much. I mean. really???"

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I see a Trumper on Baily Rd in Newport is flying a brand new OLD Minnesota state flag at his mailbox. So it's a white supremacy symbol now.

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4 years

@AP And by "hackers" they mean "some party official who embezzled it"

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2 years

This, by the way, is what FM radio was at its birth. DJs pouring their guts out through the music. The overcontrolling PDs, the consultants, the suits? They never understood because you need a soul to understand. This is why a lot of us got into radio when we had our youth.

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@EricHovde There isn't a single issue on the website that doesn't parrot MAGA. But, yeah, you keep fighting for that common ground, champ.

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So far, 5 days after turning on the solar array at my house, I've reduced the carbon footprint by 91 pounds and sold about 140 kwh to Xcel.

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10 months

It's like he's never watched people leaving Total Wine. Mike Thompson: Minnesota marijuana law.

Mike Thompson: Minnesota marijuana law

Follow the StarTribune for the news, photos and videos from the Twin Cities and beyond.

www.startribune.com

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It could be worse for Kate Middleton. She could be an American covered by United Health Care.

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1 year

After years of gridlock, shit's getting done. Cry me a river.

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6 months

I know a lot of you south Washington County people are too busy but if you could take 3 minutes today to vote not to have white supremacists take over our schools, that would be super swell of you .

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3 years

The MN State Fair, whose finances are secret and never questioned by local media, gets a cut of every transaction on its property. It's chosen money over the health and safety of people. But local news orgs will continue to gladly serve as its PR arm .

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1 year

Hamlet tonight. You suburbanites cowering in your kitchen are missing out.

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Now that the first responders have been buried, can local media start investigating the many systemic failures that led to their deaths. It's a goddamned smorgasbord of failures. Just pick one .

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Will someone in a position of editorial authority at ANY news organization PLEASE explain your rationale for giving 7 people coverage, and also explain what else you COULD have covered today with your limited resources that might have been a little more substantive?

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Rally in support of old state flag at Minnesota Capitol.

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3 years

@RepJasonCrow @kathrynw5 Maybe politicians should stop considering war a jobs program

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When you're not crazy, stripping rights, health care, Medicare and social security, defending slavery, endorsing child labor and denying climate change, then we can talk, Republican Party. Until then, go Fuck yourselves.

OPINION EXCHANGE | Minnesota's future: State must undo one-party rule

If you don't like just how far left our state has gone, the only solution is to restore a semblance of balance via a Republican House.

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Being from MN, I've been asked numerous times about Emmer. I say he'll be whatever he needs to be to best position HIMSELF. He's a dick. He's also the best this clown car is gonna do.

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3 years

Strib food editor: "You know what we need? A recipe for how to fry an egg or two."

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7 months

So Tom Emmer is going to be the new House Speaker. They deserve an asshole like that.

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7 months

Quite possibly the second-biggest dick I met in 45 years of journalism. Fervent anti-union. Made deal to embed with cop at '04 RNC and didn't reveal it. Newsroom bully. We didn't talk to each other for 15 years Use to proclaim in newsroom, "I'll be the last one standing here!"

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In case you hadn’t heard, Tim Nelson — the man who led @PioneerPress City Hall coverage with an iron 👊, and then made waves at @onmprnews , has left @MPR . Reasons unclear. But he follows previous Pioneer Press —> MPR —>? departures like Laura Yuen, Nancy Yang, Chris Worthington:

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We in the Twin Cities are sooo spoiled by having Mary Lucia and @thecurrent . Other markets would kill to have a station and host so great. I am so lucky to have had a few minutes a day in her orbit. Until the day I die, I will treasure our last afternoon together.

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1 year

I'm reminded of that Simpson's episode where Keillor is on the TV or radio and Homer starts banging on it while yelling "be more funny!"

Mike Thompson cartoon: Arguments for marijuana

Follow the StarTribune for the news, photos and videos from the Twin Cities and beyond.

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When is the Star Tribune going to get rid of its comments section. There is no good reason for it to exist anymore. Everyone, particularly the racists, does not deserve amplification.

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In our system, you sell your youth for a paycheck. It's a sucker's bet .

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Boom!

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@USMCLiberal @realDonaldTrump I can never support a military that supports this guy.

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The local media cheerleading for Emmer like they're covering a Vikings game is particularly nauseating.

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@ClayTravis Tell me you don't know how vaccines work without telling me you don't know how vaccines work.

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@AmandaBecker "... but you can't take the Republican out of the boy "

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Interesting that the Strib 's new editorial cartoonist is a no-show in today's paper -- the biggest circulation day of the week. Trouble in paradise?

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The MPR announcement.

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This is the most accurate thing ever said about political journalism in America.

Terry Ann 🌊🌊🌊

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This cartoon says a lot

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I think it's pretty obvious Cargill intends to buy everything on Park Point, get the little airport closed and then sue to close the road, making Park Point a Cargill compound.

Kathy Cargill ignores meeting request from Duluth mayor over Park Point purchases

Mayor Roger Reinert shared the letter with the Duluth City Council on Monday.

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What I like about grandkids is they miss you when you're gone.

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Today's massacre is brought to you in part by these four clowns.

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I love working with these guys. Great @mnguncaucus rally today at the capitol.

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No doubt the old geezers objected to tax dollars going to create Woodbury's amazing adaptive playground and splash pad where it's hilarious chaos with parents and kids today. Cry more, old geezers. Your time is over.

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2 years

@MnNiceFC Even more incredible, the far-right candidate called to congratulate him and urged his country to support the new president. Chile is ahead of the United States in the democracy category, which is unbelievable.

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@AROD @MeatSauce1 @Timberwolves @minnesotalynx Let me tell you about the time we had a Halloween blizzard.

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Lyft and Uber stocks got hammered yesterday, because investors know you can't make money when you're pulling out of large American cities. This is a bluff. Especially when you can pass the cost to riders with a couple of keystrokes.

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There's a difference in journalists just amplifying what politicians say and actually digging to fact check. This is really good.

Fact check: was SRO restraint language added to ed policy bill at session's end, as Baker claims?

Republicans have raised a rumpus about a provision in the omnibus K-12 education bill passed last spring, the Strib's Eder Campuzano reported in Minnesota Republicans demand repeal of ban on student...

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@tracym @gordy_shumway @usbank @Eric_Rasmussen @KSTP Oh @usbank . We're done. I'll be up to close my accounts, credit card and LOC tomorrow. Don't call the cops on me, OK?

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"You might see the Northern Lights in the Twin Cities tonight." Me:

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11 months

The cost of the MN bonding bill is going to be much, much higher because Republicans refused to pass one when interest rates were super low. These people are financially incompetent in addition to being batshit crazy.

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Cancelling this unit will go down as one of Jean Taylor's dumbest decisions at APM/MPR.

In the Dark

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We’re thrilled to announce that we are joining The New Yorker to produce and distribute our next season. Stay subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts, and follow @NewYorker for updates.

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@StarTribune "online speculation" Really? That's your hook? Online speculation? Twits

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My sister, battling leukemia, has asked me to move to Boston for three months to take care of her. There's only one acceptable answer here but, holy shit, that doesn't give me much time to show my spouse how to use a vacuum cleaner and lawnmower.

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The most Minnesotan of "tainteds"

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My man, Finn, is home

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It's unbelievable to me that we're more than 2 years into this and people are STILL leaving their cars running unattended. Is it really that hard to turn the car off and take keys with you?

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So far this year, Mpls is averaging 24 car thefts per day, on pace to blow past last year's record. In contrast, St. Paul is down 32% from last year. Me and @JeffHargarten chopped up the data and talked to victims and police about what's happening here

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Congratulations on your donation to Minnesota Public Radio. It went to Jones Day to help break a union while it was laying off an incredible amount of talent. Yay you, I guess. (h/t: You know who you are)

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34,515 tonight. What a shame people are afraid to come to downtown Minneapolis

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Wurz said MN Republican reps refused to go her show to talk about shutdown. They basically boycott mpr. Republicans, astonishingly, have no clue why they lose statewide elections

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This is probably the worst 11" of heart attack snow I've ever seen

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A couple of guys in their non-working years hanging out in their rocking chairs.

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I won't be around to see the next solar eclipse but that's fine. I just want to live long enough for the awe inspiring moment when the bulletin flashes that Tr*ump is dead .

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He is risen

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My man Finn having a tough go. Back in the hospital. No idea what's wrong. Poor kid.

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This bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios at my Airbnb cost me $78. This is why Americans think the economy is bad under Joe Biden.

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@MLBastian "But give it to a kid...."

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I think a lot of people don't know you can hold a smartphone to your ear to have a conversation rather than putting it on speaker so everyone in the clinic gets to hear it too

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I remember years ago when a blind guy was visiting all 30 ballparks. I called the Twins to see if they would give him the royal treatment and meet a player. You usually get the B-list on stuff like that. The guy got Joe Mauer. True Hall of Famer

Reggie Deal meets Joe Mauer

Reggie Deal, who is blind and attempting to visit 30 ballparks in 30 days, meets Minnesota Twins star Joe Mauer during a visit to Target Field in Minneapolis...

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@StribOpinion OK so basically he's no Steve Sack

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My favorite part of shoveling snow is the Jameson's when I come back inside

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Pretty big story buried

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@ElijahSchaffer Please point out the Christ in this Christmas greeting. Thanks.

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Maybe it's time for a mandatory retirement age. Boomers have a hard time making room for following generations.

Senator Dianne Feinstein appears confused during vote, prodded to say ‘aye’ - The Boston Globe

Feinstein appeared to get confused during a committee vote Thursday, adding to concerns about whether the 90-year-old lawmaker can perform her duties despite her physical decline.

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We're several weeks into the Uber vs. Mpls stuff and no local news organization has yet done a deep dive into the relationship between transportation and poverty, which is actually the niche ridesharing fills. Instead, it's focused on well-off people getting home from the airport

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@paulgazelka Oh is the MN GOP losing its Sugar Daddy?

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10 months

Got up at dawn to take my spouse to the airport for a 740 am flight, drove home. She called after learning it is a 740 pm flight.

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@DrKarlynB This is a way better idea than, you know, talking to your kids and having a communicative and partnering relationship with their teacher. America, yeah, baby!

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They're getting rid of the benches? Do they have any idea how elderly and disabled people use those? It's a long walk and those things are an oasis.