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The Jan. 1 edition of the Star Tribune ran two versions of the same AP story (with only slight variations) about well-known businesses going bankrupt: one inside the A section and the other on the cover of the Business section. It’s overkill and an oversight to be sure, but hey, to err is human, [...]

Newspaper election endorsements are out — some packing a wallop as bracing as a stiff winter wind in October, others playing it as safe as pre-Halloween trick-or-treating at a local strip mall. Here’s a roundup of candidate preferences for the U.S. Senate and House that Minnesota papers have so far put in print. The recession sees the major dailies’ editorialists cutting back on costly opinions — either picking favorites without naming the issues they like them for, as both the PiPress and Star Tribune have done in the U.S. Senate race, or beating a wholesale retreat from making a pick at all, as the St. Paul Pioneer Press has done in the presidential contest.