Bob CollinsThe Owatonna area is one of the first out-state communities to participate in a push to get people to complete advance directives. But only about 10 percent of people have advance directives, guidelines for dying, in their medical files, according to David Albrecht, president of Owatonna Hospital.
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Archives for June 2017
Is there a language that’s too strong to use when condemning white supremacy?
The Southern Baptists thought so this week until yesterday when they formally condemned ‘”every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as of the devil.’ Read more →
The economy is garbage, except on paper, for many people but Fed Chair Janet Yellen pushed for the rate increase saying the fundamentals of the U.S. economy warrant it. She sees it as a way to keep inflation at bay.
Neel Kashkari sees a different economy, which is interesting because the economy of Minnesota and surrounding states has been better than the rest of the country. Read more →
If it wasn’t for Noah Nathan, we wouldn’t have this video of this morning’s shooting at the Republican softball practice.
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Chris Singleton, the centerfielder for Charleston Southern University batted .276 with four homers this season. Those aren’t exactly eye-popping numbers for an outfielder. But Singleton has other things to focus on, too. He has to care for his younger siblings, Camryn and Caleb, because two years ago tomorrow, Dylan Roof executed their mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and eight others in a church in an effort to start a race war. Read more →
A community group formed to bring TV to the rural area says it decided to stop relying only on Orr property tax assessments to function. It has previously also gotten support from neighboring Leiding, Minn., which stopped contributing in 2012. Read more →
Something unusual happened on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives late this morning.
Democrats and Republicans stood in a show of unity in the aftermath of what increasingly appears to be a politically motivated attack on members of Congress this morning. Read more →
There is only one state in the Union that doesn’t recognize Veterans Day as an official state holiday. It’s you, Wisconsin.
Maybe that’ll change.
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The shooting occurred one day before the annual Congressional Baseball Game, the event, which started in 1909, that always gives us hope that perhaps warring factions can put political differences aside for a greater good. In the past, these sorts of things might make the country step back and perhaps even draw closer.
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‘I do not believe we send our young minds to be victimized to read such immoral drivel,’ Carrol Sarsland wrote in his formal request to ban ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.’
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A lot of us laughed when an off-season statistics calculation predicted the Minnesota Twins would win nearly 80 games this season, even though the franchise did almost nothing in the off-season to boost their roster, which lost more than 100 games last season.
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Yes, we’re fully aware that NewsCut has its share of readers who will say, ‘what are these kids learning by intentionally striking out so Braydon Gero, 12, a kid with Down Syndrome can have a happy moment in his last Little League game of the season?’
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Andrea Pitzer, a writer for Slate, says Dylan lifting the work of others is nothing new and checking his work has sparked a cottage industry.
Dylan got $923,000 for his lecture as part of his Nobel Prize in literature. Pitzer says he should give some of it to the authors of the work he used. Read more →
The future of Obamacare is being decided in a back room somewhere in Washington, from what we’ve been told, but maybe its immediate future is being decided in some cubicles in the Twin Cities.
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What’s another day in June without a yearbook controversy in the nation’s schools?
This time it’s Wall High School in New Jersey where student Grant Berardo noticed a difference between the photo he submitted and the one that was printed, according to the Asbury Park Press. Read more →