Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Let the record show that when the Minnesota veterans of World War II and the Korean War walked into a restaurant on their Honor Flight to visit the World War II and Korean War memorial on Saturday, the people in the restaurant knew just what to do. Read more →
Protesters with air horns disrupted last night’s MinnRoast, the fundraiser at the State Theater for the independent news site MinnPost [dislaimer: I am a financial contributor to MinnPost], after Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges used an incident during the 4th Precinct protests as the setting for a joke about her husband. Last November 18, a group Read more →
Why? Because it’s Friday and Fridays are for ducks and the kids that chant ‘let’s go ducks!,’ that’s why.
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Beretta, the world’s oldest gun manufacturer, opened its new factory in Tennessee today, making good on its vow to leave a state with tougher gun laws, underscoring that economic development increasingly depends on a state’s politics as well as its taxes. Read more →
Montevideo, Minn., is high on the list of quirky cities of Minnesota. This video, posted on the police department’s Facebook page, isn’t going to tarnish its image one bit.
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Posit: At least on a day like today, the best job in Minnesota is reroofing a church steeple in St. Paul, while being hoisted in a bucket and suspended by a crane Familiarity with the book of Isaiah optional.
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MPR News’ Matt Sepic reports today that home buyers are being squeezed in these parts because there aren’t enough home sellers. Land prices are too high so the homes that are being built may not be that affordable.
Maybe it’s just as well.
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Beware the golfer scorned, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources found out last night at a hearing on the DNR’s decision to close its only golf course. Read more →
Kathleen Errico, of Haverhill, Mass., found her 23-year-old daughter dead of a heroin overdose two weeks ago. In the days that followed, she knew what she had to do. She had to ignore the ‘died suddenly’ code words and write about her daughter’s life the way her daughter’s life was.
So she wrote this.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals is now considering the case of a man who sawed his neighbor’s garage in half in a property dispute.
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People might shake their head at closed factories and jobs shipped overseas, but when it comes to making America great again, talk is cheap.
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If the Titanic should run into trouble tonight, Twitter is going to be all over it. Read more →
There was an article in The Guardian this week on the nature of online comments — The Dark Side of Guardian Comments. It looked at the experience of its online writers and found that online harassment is particularly ripe for non-whites and women. Not much of a surprise there. Read more →
It’s been an ongoing issue between the police and the people they serve for several years now, despite ruling after ruling that people have a right to stand on a public street and film the actions of police. Read more →
Highway 53 between Eveleth and Virginia is being rerouted because United Taconite needs to get at the minerals beneath it. Read more →
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