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Column: Freedom of speech includes religious greetings
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Season&8217;s greetings. Every year for the past four or five ...
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Column: Fasting shows an appreciation for your food
By TIm Engstrom, Pothole Prairie As you know, I like to cook. The other day &8212; while cooking ...
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Column: Sometimes it takes awhile for news to sink in
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Lisa called me at the office at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday and reminded me that ...
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Column: It was a good weekend to be named Forrest
By Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie It’s a boy! Forrest Eugene Engstrom was born into this world of ours ...
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Column: More NFL teams have temporary quarterbacks
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie CHICAGO &8212; Doesn&8217;t it seem like almost all NFL teams have quarterback problems these ...
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Column: Geese provide Sunday morning entertainment
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie You should go for a walk, my wife told me Sunday morning. The ears ...
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Column: Skiing is the solution to all of lifes problems
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Aah, late autumn! When a young man&8217;s fancy turns to &8230; downhill skiing. Warren ...
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Column: The best and worst of beer slogans worldwide
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Some thoughts about beer slogans: If weekends were made for Michelob, then what are ...
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Column: A few interesting tidbits about newspapering
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Did you know shopping local helps journalism? One question people ask me: What determines ...
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Column: On the Twins, the Cubs and TV broadcasters
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Baseball has been berry, berry good to da Twins. Detroit loses to cellar-dweller Kansas ...
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Column: Watch soccer and see diversity of Albert Lea
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Watching an Albert Lea High School junior varsity soccer game last Tuesday, a notion ...
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Dog, exchange student, baby make five of us
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Our family seems to be growing pretty fast out here on the pothole prairie. ...
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Column: Albert Lea could host the Alberti Flea Circus
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Here’s my pitch for an act at next year’s Freeborn County Fair: The Alberti ...
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Column: Is Albert Lea Lake the largest natural lake south of Minnetonka?
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie People keep telling me: &8220;Albert Lea Lake is the largest natural lake between Lake ...
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Can you spell prestidigitation? How about elucubrate? Pulchritude?
Tim Engstrom, Pothole Prairie Go see this movie: &8220;Akeelah and the Bee.&8221; It is now playing. Lisa and ...
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