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    Snowshoeing the Kadunce

    JANUARY 2, 2012 12:52PM

    By Lin Salisbury


    Topics: environment, minnesota, new beginnings, shoreline, water, woods, hiking, home, dogs, kadunce river, grand marais, lake superior, north shore, sports, environment, snowshoeing

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    • 0 Ratings
    • 931 Views
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    Mitt Romney is to John Kerry as Minnesota is to itself

    JULY 5, 2011 11:51PM

    By potterpoliticalpickle


    Topics: minnesota, mitt romney, john kerry, tim pawlenty, huntsman, michele bachmann, 2012 presidential elections, sarah palin, ron paul, president obama, clinton, mondale, dean, reagan, open call, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 2344 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Michele Bachmann: A Minnesotan’s Appreciation

    JUNE 15, 2011 8:24AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: republican campaign 2012, republican nomination campaign, politicians, republican primary elections, iowa caucus, michele bachmann, tim pawlenty, minnesotan republican candidates, constitutional conservatism, religious right, joe mccarthy, born-again, christian conservatives, six degrees of separation, aladdin, barack obama, elections, minnesota, tea party

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 2908 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    An Illegal Immigration Bill We All Can Love

    MAY 13, 2010 11:09AM

    By Robert J. Elisberg


    Topics: arizona, minnesota, illegal immigration, immigration

    • Editor's Pick
    • 43 Ratings
    • 2246 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Short.

    FEBRUARY 5, 2010 6:17AM

    By six foot skinny


    Topics: minnesota, home, milblog, iraq, short-timer, leaving

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 1465 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Halfway to home.

    SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 11:36AM

    By six foot skinny


    Topics: cold, missing, winter, minnesota, milblog, iraq

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    • 9 Ratings
    • 1315 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Minneapolis Marks Second Anniversary of Bridge Collapse

    AUGUST 1, 2009 11:35PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: minnesota, tragedy, i-35w, minneapolis, second anniversary bridge collapse, minneapolis bridge collapse, i-35w bridge

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    • 28 Ratings
    • 5033 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    unpacking my life

    JULY 13, 2009 3:32PM

    By mistercomedy


    Topics: minnesota, comedy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 28 Ratings
    • 1905 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    File Under Finally: Franken Wins

    JUNE 30, 2009 3:18PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: al franken, minnesota, senate, election 2008, politics, norm coleman, voting, election reform, voting rights, senator franken

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    • 2 Ratings
    • 752 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Immigrants choose ethnocentric charters

    JANUARY 13, 2009 2:58PM

    By Joanne Jacobs


    Topics: education, immigrants, culture, minnesota, arabic, hebrew

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1237 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Two gnarled thumbs up for a hitchhiking renaissance

    DECEMBER 12, 2008 9:29AM

    By Nurse Sphincter


    Topics: hichhiking, thumbs, minnesota, new york, south carolina, economy, transportation

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 3237 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    A place of their own: State hospital patient 'shack cities'

    DECEMBER 8, 2008 2:59PM

    By Nurse Sphincter


    Topics: state hospital, psychiatry, shacks, dwellings, housing, privacy, st. peter, minnesota

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 907 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Week in Videos -- Victory, Defeat, and In Between

    NOVEMBER 9, 2008 4:04PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: coleman, minnesota, oregon, north carolina, gordon smith, dole, bachmann, mccain, obama, campaign, politics, videos

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 621 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Voting in Minneapolis, Minnesota

    NOVEMBER 4, 2008 2:06PM

    By Skeptic Turtle


    Topics: voting, election, polls, minnesota

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    • 0 Ratings
    • 545 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Voter Backlash Against Bachmann's 'Anti-American' Claims

    OCTOBER 21, 2008 3:37PM

    By J.E. Robertson


    Topics: bachmann, minnesota, congressional races, anti-americanism, mccarthyism, first amendment, msnbc

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 5615 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    28 ATTACKS IN 28 DAYS (#14: "DISAPPOINTMENT") PLUS ROBOCALL

    OCTOBER 22, 2008 11:40PM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: campaign, negative, mccain, 28 days, 28 attacks, barack obama, disappointment, robocall, michelle bachmann, anti-american, pro-american, minnesota

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 691 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Shady politics: Al Franken

    AUGUST 13, 2008 10:07AM

    By Skeptic Turtle


    Topics: politics, elections, television, al franken, senate, minnesota, beta corps

    • Editor's Pick
    • 0 Ratings
    • 726 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Al Franken: Ooops!

    APRIL 29, 2008 8:55PM

    By Skeptic Turtle


    Topics: politics, news, al franken, senate, minnesota

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