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• Authors seek new ways to sell their work
  Many authors are finding nowadays that even after they have written their book, had it edited and published, their work is not done. Today's authors are often left with the task of publicizing their work too.December 31, 2008
• Looking for jobs in the new year
  With unemployment rising and the job market looking bleak, there are few reasons to be confident about finding a job in to the New Year. Career consultant Amy Lindgren says the first place to start is by tackling anxiety and fear.Midmorning, December 30, 2008
• Minn. county worker in trouble over sinking plow
  A Polk County employee faces disciplinary action after the payloader he was driving ended up in the Red Lake River near Crookston.December 30, 2008
• Recently resigned St. John's president dies
  The former president of St. John's University who stepped down for health reasons last fall has died. Dietrich Reinhart was 59 years old.December 29, 2008
• The champagne empire built by a woman
  Veuve Clicquot's bright orange label signals its must-drink status among champagne connoisseurs. The label was created by a woman who galvanized champagne-making and broke international law to bring the bubbly to markets around the world from the 1800s until today.Midmorning, December 26, 2008
• Anonymous donor gives $1 million to fire victims
  Residents left homeless by an apartment fire in Burnsville are getting checks for $17,000 per unit thanks to the holiday spirit of an anonymous donor.December 24, 2008
• Family's holiday tradition preserved in song
  Every family that celebrates Christmas has its own traditions -- sending out cards, wrapping gifts, making cookies, singing carols. For a dozen years ending in 1999, the Temple family, from Mendota Heights, would actually record its own album of Christmas music every year.December 24, 2008
• On horseback, Native American riders make 300-mile trip
  A group of about 50 Native Americans will ride on horseback into the Mankato area later this week. Their arrival will mark the end of a nearly 300-mile trip to mark the 146th anniversary of the largest mass execution in U.S. history.December 23, 2008
• Home for the holidays -- whether you like it or not
  It's not just politics and religion that make for some tense conversational moments during the holidays.December 22, 2008
• No place like home
  A majority of U.S.-born adults have not lived outside their birth state, and are venturing out to other states at the lowest rate since 1948. Researchers are examining how Americans weigh family ties against economic opportunity in the decision to move or not to move.Midmorning, December 22, 2008
• The man who walks with bears
  Lynn Rogers has spent much of his life getting up close and personal with black bears. He joins Midmorning to talk about what he's learned, and what he's still learning, from them.Midmorning, December 19, 2008
• The economy alters our notion of attractiveness
  It's said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But, as it turns out, the state of the economy has a way of altering our vision.December 18, 2008
• Rep. Ellison, rights groups show support for jailed Indian workers
  Twenty-three men from India jailed in Fargo are getting support from human rights advocates and members of Congress.December 17, 2008
• Nonprofit survival
  Across the nation nonprofit organizations are expected to endure a very difficult year as the economy sinks. A new report describes Minnesota's nonprofit landscape.Midmorning, December 16, 2008
• Todd Boss rides his 'Yellowrocket'
  Todd Boss is riding a poetic wave. Not only has a major publishing house just released his first book of poems, "Yellow Rocket," he says the nation has just elected a poet as president. Boss is the self-appointed poet laureate of Nina's Coffee Cafe in St Paul.December 16, 2008

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