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.
There will be no authorized anti-abortion clubs in the Fargo school district.
Two students — Brigid O’Keefe of Fargo North High School and Katie McPherson of Davies High School — tried to start the clubs, but they were stopped by administrators. Read more →
Alan Page, the former Minnesota Viking and current justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, will turn 70 in August, and by the end of that month, he has to retire. It’s the law in Minnesota.
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Turning aside a request from the Star Tribune, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that data from an agency created by the Minnesota Legislature to help high-risk doctors, hospitals and nursing homes get malpractice insurance can stay secret. Read more →
If ever there was a reason the NCAA should scrap its rules on student-athlete eligibility, Baylor football player Silas Nacita is it. Read more →
Attention, Alaska Airlines: Cancer isn’t contagious.
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The Mankato Free Press this week provided an unusual glimpse of the sacrifice some Minnesota lawmakers have to make to be legislators. Rep. Jack Considine’s parents died within days of each other, just as the session started. Read more →
Grantland provides today’s respite from cubicle gloom with this invigorating profile of a man who doesn’t let cancer get him down. Read more →
We can’t watch this horrible video without wondering, ‘What if?’. What if someone wasn’t in a perfect position to see a South Carolina cop execute a black man, who had been stopped for a broken tail light. Read more →
Tyrel Oates, the Charlotte Wells Fargo employee who wrote to CEO John Stumpf last year asking for a $10,000 raise for him and his colleagues, isn’t waiting around for a response, apparently. Read more →
The baseball box score, a longtime staple of the newspaper sports section, may be disappearing.
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When you’re a professional basketball player, you really don’t need anyone to give you cars and prizes; you can buy them with the pocket change you put on the dresser every night.
But it still takes a special person to pass the wealth along to someone else.
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A lot of people are ripping off the system, the Pioneer Press reports today, citing an audit showing Green Line riders in particular are dodging fares. Read more →
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill waded into dangerous territory for politicians overnight: college sports and the kids who don’t bother going to class. Read more →
On the Minnesota-South Dakota border, Trygve Trooien was something of a legend as the bachelor farmer. And a bit of a curiosity. Read more →
Stuart Schumacher finds something new every time he reads a recent obituary for a 4-year-old boy. The boy’s name was Evan, and Schumacher wrote the obituary in the hours after he lost his son. Read more →
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