![At Dakota Hills Middle School in Eagan, Senator Al Franken met privately at the school with several Minnesota educators, child advocates, and school-safety officials to discuss ongoing efforts to improve school safety. Since coming to the Senate, Sen. Franken has pressed for measures to increase the number of school counselors, psychologists and social workers, and to prevent school bullying.. ] rtsong-taatarii@startribune.com ORG XMIT: MIN1301071556341114](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/DXF4OHNLWHG2M6FN3YOLHUQHS4.jpg?&w=1080)
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KNOW THIS
Last year ended with one of those awful "what ifs" when Blair Walsh missed a chip-shot field goal. The Vikings haven't played a regular-season game yet, and already it feels like 2016 will be defined by that same terrible, unanswerable hypothetical question.
WATCH THIS
If you don't make it out to any of the live events in the Twin Cities on Thursday, you can try your luck at remote control roulette. The Vikings (7 p.m., Ch. 9), Twins (7 p.m., FSN) and Gophers football (8 p.m., BTN) are all televised.
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"No QB coming off the street will be serviceable. It never works. It just takes too much time to learn the playbook. So, go with Hill, then Stave, then Heinicke."
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"Al Franken upon learning of Vikes QB Teddy Bridgewater's knee injury: 'Its like finding out Hillary's having an affair with Anthony Weiner.' "
— Mark Leibovich, New York Times Magazine correspondent.
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