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Does anybody have a handkerchief to use?
Forrest, my eldest child, is against moving away. The 7-year-old has many friends in Albert Lea, likes his ...
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Which team won NFL battle for eyeballs?
The NFL regular season is over, and the Super Bowl is coming up Feb. 1. Unfortunately, the Minnesota ...
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So is Minnesota really the 12th largest state?
Minnesota is the 12th largest state in the union. I hear that from time to time around here. For ...
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Who’s excited about the 2015 Vikings? Me
The Minnesota Vikings aren’t going to the playoffs. They even are going to end up with a losing ...
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What should be done with Adrian Peterson?
As far as off-the-field transgressions in the NFL go, the Adrian Peterson case might seem like an open-and-shut ...
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Which NFL team has the deadliest mascot?
Football is a big, tough, full-contact sport, right? And the teams of the National Football League have mascots ...
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And on the 8th day, God made basketball
There are sports of all sorts: football, baseball, hockey, golf, skiing, snowboarding, tennis, swimming, diving, track and field, ...
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What’s your cockamamie weather theory?
Everybody has cockamamie theories about the weather.
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Endorsement editorials are good for dialogue
Election Day has come and gone. Some of the candidates the Tribune Editorial Board endorses were elected and ...
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It’s the first Tuesday after the first Monday!
Finally, Election Day is here. There remains one overarching question for people going to the polls today. Why ...
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It’s clear Albert Lea has a vibrant dialogue
Letters, letters, letters, letters and more letters. We have had a truckload of letters to the editor in ...
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‘Minecraft’ feeds creativity like Lego blocks
Video games are bad, right? Not necessarily. When urban designers plan communities, they use computers. When architects design buildings, ...
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Having 2 or 3 Blue Zones purposes is good
Let’s ramble a bit today. One of my favorite aspects of the Blue Zones is its call for knowing ...
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Adrian Peterson let my 7-year-old boy down
The news came on the radio as I was taking my 7-year-old son, Forrest, to school one morning ...
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5 things patient drivers do that still irk me
It’s good to be patient when driving a motor vehicle. When driving in a hurry, there will be ...
