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Duluth’s off the hook

Bob Collins September 17, 2009, 9:15 AM Sep 17, 2009

A bizarre story about an incorrect phone call telling a family their son was killed no longer has a Minnesota connection.

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Five at 8 – 9/17/09: Broken trust

Bob Collins September 17, 2009, 7:40 AM Sep 17, 2009

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Is there a reason to trust Congress, what’s wrong with us, what’s right with us, why are color-blind monkeys a big deal, and is Deuce ready for prime time?

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Too late for ACORN?

Bob Collins September 16, 2009, 1:47 PM Sep 16, 2009

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The ACORN scandal is mushrooming.

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The right way to pray?

Bob Collins September 16, 2009, 1:35 PM Sep 16, 2009

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If you pay a computer to say your prayers for you, are you still praying?

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Five at 8 – 9/16/09

Bob Collins September 16, 2009, 7:37 AM Sep 16, 2009

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A health care lab rat, how you know you’re meant to be a father, racism and Obama, birds on a wire, and counties hold the line on taxes.

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The white-paint index

Bob Collins September 15, 2009, 2:47 PM Sep 15, 2009

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The falling price of a white paint ingredient signals the economic recovery may stall.

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Political lightning round

Bob Collins September 15, 2009, 1:01 PM Sep 15, 2009

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The speeches congresspeople give to an empty chamber.

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The call from Duluth

Bob Collins September 15, 2009, 11:22 AM Sep 15, 2009

A phone call from Duluth led a New York family to believe their son was dead. He wasn’t.

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Five at 8 – 9/15/09: Which rights would you defend?

Bob Collins September 15, 2009, 7:33 AM Sep 15, 2009

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Defending part of the Constitution, critters on the shower head, on a paw and a prayer, a Boxelder Bug tribute to Bill Holm, and Patrick Swayze’s best video.

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Green shoots – Part 1

Bob Collins September 14, 2009, 5:08 PM Sep 14, 2009

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The first person profiled in News Cut’s ‘The Unemployed’ series has a new job.

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Jody Powell, 1943-2009

Bob Collins September 14, 2009, 4:30 PM Sep 14, 2009

The news today that Jody Powell died has sent us scurrying for the News Cut Wayback Machine. It’s 1977. And Time Magazine hates the new administration in town, and the new press secretary, a Mr. Jody Powell: Jody Powell, the other principal staff strategist in the Lance affair, turned out to have some of the Read more →