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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for March 2019

What’s on MPR News – 3/27/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2019, 5:46 AM Mar 27, 2019
41

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

This or That

Neat trick: People want news coverage. They don’t want to pay for it

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2019, 3:16 PM Mar 26, 2019
38

It’s really not that people don’t want solid news reporting; they just don’t want to pay for it and they’re going to keep that insistence, apparently, until it becomes a moot point. Soon. Read more →

The jobs we do

A tip of the hat to the people who tow your car

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2019, 2:06 PM Mar 26, 2019
2

It’s been a tough year to be a tow truck driver. Few people think kindly of the people who haul their cars away during snow emergencies. They’re just doing their jobs, people.

So it’s good to see one getting a little love for a simple act of concern and kindness.
Read more →

This or That

Don’t drive with a pig on your lap

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2019, 11:58 AM Mar 26, 2019
9

Now that the state is on the eve of banning the handheld use of cellphones, let’s talk pig, specifically driving with a pig on your lap. Read more →

Sports

Baseball returns just when we need it most

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2019, 10:27 AM Mar 26, 2019
22

We’re certainly aware that it’s fashionable these days to proclaim baseball an irrelevant and dying sport, with its staid traditions and constant stories of connecting parents, grandparents, and children. That, we will argue, is the strength it has left and to prove it, we point today to Jim Walsh’s excellent story in Southwest Journal about Read more →

Is gymnastics the best sport ever? Or the worst?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2019, 9:02 AM Mar 26, 2019
14

Former WCCO anchor Jamie Yuccas’ interview this morning with UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi captures perfectly the contradictory nature of her sport to outsiders. Read more →

Politics

Show us your property tax statement

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2019, 7:08 AM Mar 26, 2019
49

The annual NewsCut tradition — our 10th and last — is underway with the arrival of your property tax statement, that completely indecipherable calculation that leads to the bottom line. Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 3/26/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2019, 5:46 AM Mar 26, 2019
1

Here are the topics, guests, and stories you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Jeremy Richman tried to survive his daughter’s killing in a mass shooting. He couldn’t

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 2:12 PM Mar 25, 2019

In many ways, the debate over guns ended in 2012 when the nation went on about its business and changed pretty much nothing after little kids and their teachers were slaughtered in Newtown, Conn. That must have been particularly difficult for people like Jeremy Richman, who hasn’t been able to take any positives out of Read more →

This or That

Airline passengers buy ticket to Germany, flight goes to Scotland instead

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 2:00 PM Mar 25, 2019
3

All the passengers got on the plane thinking they were going to Germany. But the paperwork submitted to the pilots said Edinburgh. So Edinburgh it was.
Read more →

Education · Health · Regional history

NewsCut Flashback: The greatest human who ever lived?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 1:38 PM Mar 25, 2019
5

Today would be Norman Borlaug’s 105th birthday. He is known by some fans as the greatest human who ever lived. Read more →

This or That

Cruise survivors may go for another ride

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 10:02 AM Mar 25, 2019

Among the many things on the NewsCut Bucket List is ‘don’t go on a cruise.’
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Sports

Runners race around baseball diamond for 3 1/2 hours

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 8:44 AM Mar 25, 2019
12

Who among us hasn’t gone through life asking its critical question, ‘what can we do that’s fun and stupid?’ Read more →

Weather

Flooding brings out our best selves

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 7:08 AM Mar 25, 2019

From the look of things, there’ll be plenty of grief accompanying the flooding around Minnesota; that’s the nature of floods of course. Things go underwater, our commutes require detours and more time, possessions are lost, the mold grows in the basement and who’s got time for any of this, anyway? Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 3/25/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 5:51 AM Mar 25, 2019
0

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

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