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Ice fishing: Answering the question, 'why?'

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By Gary Sankary | 02/05/13

10 degrees below is not a prison sentence.

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Could I pass the presidential litmus test?

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By Gary Sankary | 06/27/12

A Jew wonders if he'll live to see America elect a non-Christian president.

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Cut to the chase, eating organic field greens

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By Gary Sankary | 06/22/12

The new PC word for eating weeds or what my depression era Dad would call Hoover Salad, is Field Greens. Sounds nicer.

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A storm’s a brewing: state tournament time in Saint Paul

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By Gary Sankary | 03/12/12

For those of us who are big fans of St. Paul there is real reason to be worried: we just might be enjoying the last week of sanity in our lovely Capital City.

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Jewish community, inclusive of all views?

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By Gary Sankary | 03/01/12

Blogger Gary Sankary questions the unity of the Jewish community on the question of gay marriage.

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Old and in the Way: Kill the caucuses — their time has passed

By Gary Sankary | 02/09/12

Caucuses go back to a time before TV and before big cities, when folks didn't mind spending a couple hours in a school house debating.

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Old and In the Way: Stress… You bet

By Gary Sankary | 01/10/12
“Sank.. what’s that stuff on the dashboard of your car?” Mrs. S had borrowed the car. No response. “SANK”.. I was in the bathroom. Washing my hands.. . She came to the doorway, looked in..
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Old and In the Way: Dad's a little out of touch

By Gary Sankary | 11/15/11
Skyped with the oldest son this week. I’m trying to be better about keeping in touch with children far from home. When, this weekend, it came out that the lad had received 9 stitches in his lip a few weeks ago and I knew nothing about it..
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Old and In the Way: Turkey, straddling the divide between East and West. What are they up to?

By Gary Sankary | 09/15/11
I’ve been following developments in Turkey lately, as they relate to Israel and while I rarely blog about world affairs, I feel inspired. Bare with me. The Turks..
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Old and in the Way: It's time for a Google-free life

By Gary Sankary | 06/16/11
There’s some interesting stuff written about data mining and optimization out there, Super Crunchers is a great introduction into this new science, talks about how statisticians are working with vast amounts of data to predict how you’re going to