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Freedom’s NOT Just Another Word for “F#@% You”

by Dave Kenney posted on June 30, 2020 in Politics, Public Health, Uncategorized

Self-proclaimed liberty lovers have always had a problem with public health.

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Mississippi Bests Minnesota

by Dave Kenney posted on June 29, 2020 in Politics, Race, Symbols

Mississippi just got rid of its state flag. Why can’t Minnesota?

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What We’ve Lost: Grandma’s

by Dave Kenney posted on June 25, 2020 in Public Health, Sports

While we’ve lost way too many lives to COVID-19, we also have lost many things that we previously took for granted.

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Minnesota’s Worst Monument

by Dave Kenney posted on June 25, 2020 in Race

Minnesota has never had to deal with Confederate monuments on its soil, but it did have to deal with this.

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Riding the Waves

by Dave Kenney posted on June 24, 2020 in Public Health

Are we in COVID-19’s first wave? Second wave? From 1918 to 1920, Minnesotans endured four waves of the “Spanish flu.”

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The Killing of Tim Graham

by Dave Kenney posted on June 19, 2020 in Crime, Race

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, I went looking for the earliest case of an officer killing a Black person in Minnesota. This is what I found.

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