Maybe traveling to Minnesota State-Mankato for the best-of-three series that starts Friday was the best of the options remaining for UNO.

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Last night, I keynoted a small-city venture capital conference in Mankato, Minn.

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We were Catholic, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Evangelical and non-religious (as wide a religious swath as you might find in Mankato) and both budding liberals and conservatives.

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Hoffner had a 34-13 record in his four years at Mankato.

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On the tricky Tipton Oaks course here, he shot a career-best four-under-par 66, beating the second-place finisher by eight strokes and leading his team, Mankato-Rock Hills, to its third consecutive state title.

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She earned her master's degree from Minnesota State-Mankato.

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According to Ron Borsch's study for the Force Science Research Center at Minnesota State University-Mankato, active shooters are different from the gangsters and other street toughs whom a police officer might engage in a gunfight.

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In Mankato Troop 76 alone, amongst the scant few athletes and Honor Roll-ees, there was the Goth kid who collected illegal butterfly knives, the pale basement dweller whose shoulders blistered in the sun, the Magic the Gathering player with a perma-Kool-Aid-stache, the compulsive liar, and the chain smoker who came to meetings still dressed in his Burger King uniform.

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"The ability to use modern technology to improve communication and information sharing between police and the community on crime issues is a force multiplier that is more relevant and needed than ever before, " said Todd Miller, Director of Public Safety, Mankato, MN Department of Public Safety and Chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Section.

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