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Reality Check: Why Are Gas Prices So Low?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — An AAA forecast says more travelers will hit the road this Thanksgiving than at any time since 2007. A big reason is much lower gas prices. Not only are Thanksgiving gas prices...
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Reality Check: Transgender Athletes In Minn. High Schools
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota joins 32 other states with policies for transgender athletes on high school sports teams. But that doesn’t make it any less controversial. Minnesota transgender students...
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Reality Check: Low Gas Prices
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Just when you thought gas prices couldn’t go any lower – they did. Some Twin Cities gas stations are now selling gas for lower than $2.30 a gallon, a windfall for consumers. And...
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Reality Check: Job Growth In The Midwest
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The U.S. Government said Tuesday the nation’s economy grew at a whopping 5 percent annual rate last summer. That’s the fastest growth since 2003, including jobs coming back to the...
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Reality Check: The ‘No Session 2016’ Movement
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — An interesting new idea from some Minnesota lawmakers this year: Cancel next year’s legislative session. The “No Session 2016″ movement began the first hour of the first day of the...
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Reality Check: Minnesota’s Evolving Rural Profile
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minnesota is getting older and more ethnically diverse, especially in rural parts of the state, according to the findings of a new report that finds big changes ahead for rural...
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Reality Check: Will MN Finally Get Sunday Liquor Sales?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minnesota lawmakers are taking aim at a nearly century-old law that’s been very difficult to take off the books. Liquor stores cannot legally open on Sundays. If it’s hard to...
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Reality Check: Last Winter’s Snow Removal Cost Minnesota $136M
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Two words we learned last year that we hope we don’t hear again anytime soon: Polar Vortex. Last winter set new records for Minnesota cold, and now we’ve learned it also set a new...
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Reality Check: The Price Of Not Buying Health Insurance
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesotans have until Feb. 15 to sign up for health care insurance or pay a tax penalty. And this year, that penalty could really sting. According to MNsure, the state’s health...
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Reality Check: Major League Soccer & Public Stadium Funding
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150401191925097AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota lawmakers are showing a deep reluctance to wade into another stadium debate at the Capitol. That’s...
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Reality Check: Who Pays Estate Taxes?
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150508181715307AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesotans are like everyone else when it comes to the end of our lives. But unlike 31 other states, some of...
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Reality Check: Minnesota’s Sex Offender Treatment Program
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota’s sex offender treatment program is getting sharp scrutiny after a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional. It turns out that Minnesota locks up more dangerous sex...
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Reality Check: Gov. Mark Dayton Faces Criticism For Cabinet Raises
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — DFL Governor Mark Dayton is not backing down from criticism over huge pay hikes he gave his Cabinet. He says Minnesota’s top officials make less than other states. The two-term...
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Reality Check: Lobbyist Spending In Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota lobbyists spent nearly $70 million last year to influence state decision makers. That’s according to a new report from the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board....
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Reality Check: Trip To Pluto Cost Less Than Vikings Stadium
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — NASA scientists and planet lovers everywhere are cheering the Pluto space probe, which is now sending images of the dwarf planet back to Earth. The cost of the 10-year voyage is...
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Reality Check: U.S. Bank Logo On New Vikings Stadium
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis is now 65 percent complete, and is scheduled to open next summer. On the future home of the Vikings is one of the biggest NFL stadium logos in the...
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Reality Check: Fact & Fiction In The Immigration Debate
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The number of unauthorized Mexican immigrants in the United States seems like a big number, and it is: 5.9 million people in 2012. But that number is down one million, from the 6.9...
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Reality Check: Minnesota’s Sports Facilities Building Boom
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota’s new major league soccer franchise may be closing in on a location for its new home: a privately-financed $150 million, 20,000 seat soccer stadium in St. Paul or...
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Reality Check: Forbes Magazine Ranks The Vikings Worth
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minnesota Vikings are worth more today than at any time in Purple franchise history. That’s according to a Forbes magazine ranking of NFL teams, which found the value of the...
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Reality Check: Who Gets Paid Sick Days?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Thousands of Minnesotans don’t get paid when they don’t work, and that could be making you sick. The state Department of Health reports 61 percent of Minnesotans who work in...
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