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Tag: Edina

Politics

Lawsuit: The flag, racism, and the kids of Edina

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 8, 2017, 6:47 AM Dec 8, 2017
255

Disrespect without accountability seems to be at the heart of a lawsuit the Young Conservatives Club of Edina High School has filed after some students refused to stand during taps at a Veteran’s Day observance at the school.
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Health

Edina considers 21-year minimum age for buying smokes

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 9, 2017, 6:39 AM Mar 9, 2017
63

It’s not quite clear whether Edina thinks raising the smoking age to 21 is merely a message or whether the city believes it will make a difference. Read more →

Sports

Girl’s tennis team that never loses… loses

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 26, 2016, 12:18 PM Oct 26, 2016
2

The last time the people of Edina knew what it was like not to win the girl’s state tennis tournament, there was a Clinton in the White House, the Dow was breaking through 6,000, Princess Diana and Prince Charles were still married, and the DVD player had just been introduced. Read more →

Crime and Justice

When you fit the description

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 9, 2016, 12:36 PM Aug 9, 2016
49

Writer Yasin Mohamud pens an all too familiar tale in the Star Tribune’s 10,000 Takes series about the time he was stopped by the cops in Edina because he fit the description of those involved with ‘keying’ cars at the Macaroni Grill. He was 16 at the time, he writes today. Read more →

Who needs to know how to mail a letter?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 26, 2016, 10:41 AM Jan 26, 2016
38

‘Edina would be a nicer place if we could all talk to each other and not be awkward for not knowing each other,’ Stanley Wu, a 16 year old, wrote in his letter to Mayor James Hovland.
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Economy

Tearing down Edina

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 1, 2015, 11:15 AM Dec 1, 2015
39

Here’s something you don’t hear every day. A neighbor applauding the tear-downs happening on her street.
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Economy

Edina: Tax increase is Total Wine’s fault

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2015, 3:34 PM Oct 22, 2015
36

The mayor of Edina says taxes are going up in his community because people aren’t buying as much booze at the city’s liquor store. Read more →

Sports

In search of future fame, parents pushing kids into sports

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 10, 2015, 6:30 AM Feb 10, 2015
12

Edina loves its sports success and there aren’t too many cities with more of it.

But now it’s pushing the traveling youth teams to a younger age — fourth grade. Is it too much, the Star Tribune’s Mike Kaszuba asks in his story today?
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Sidewalks battle for hearts and minds of Edina

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 20, 2014, 7:15 AM Nov 20, 2014
49

The push for sidewalks in Edina is meeting with significant unfriendliness.
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Spreading a little love, Edina style

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 16, 2014, 11:39 AM May 16, 2014
2

An anonymous senior at the school today left 3,000 paper cranes around the school, apparently to help dispel the image of the Edina student as a self-absorbed rich kid Read more →

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