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.
It’s a powerful ad that the National Congress of American Indians produced earlier this year to oppose the name of the Washington Redskins. Tonight, it will air in seven major markets (not Minneapolis) during the NBA Finals game between San Antonio and Miami. The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, a small group located north of San Read more →
The Federal Mattawa can’t come into Duluth Harbor because there’s no grain for it to pick up. Another rolling effect of the oil patch boom — grain trains are slow to Duluth? Read more →
Is this a growing trend in Minneapolis? People posting public parking areas in front of their homes as private parking only?
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For someone who lives in the White House, the danger of assuming you’re like most Americans can be particularly dangerous. Hillary Clinton proved that with the release of her new book. Read more →
In Texas, the limits of protection are being explored by a school system near San Antonio that banned a child from using sunscreen on a recent field trip because it’s “typically toxic”. The child’s mother, Christy Riggs, is upset because skin cancer runs in her family; her father recently died because of it, KEYE TV Read more →
MPR’s Tim Post reveals how a real man does a date night.
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From Perfect Duluth Day and Cory Fechner comes this terrific quadcopter tour of Duluth’s Glensheen Mansion. It’s good living in Duluth. Read more →
Last November’s massive data breach at Target Corporation certainly affected more than just Target. It’s also done a number on charitable giving.
The public broadcasting newspaper, Current, reports today that pubcasters, who rely on ‘sustainers,’ automatic renewals by credit card, have been hit particularly hard by the data theft, as credit cards tied to the Target account were canceled by the millions.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled that an organization created by the Minnesota Legislature isn’t subject to data rules designed to allow access to some public records. Read more →
High schools in Minnesota are in a difficult spot when it comes to the suicide of students. As we’ve written many times, they’re concerned that if they acknowledge that students kill themselves, it will lead other students to take their own lives, too. But if they don’t say anything, they mute a very real health threat to our children.
The effect on the families of the students is painful; they often made to feel as if their children never existed if their deaths cannot be noted. Read more →
A few weeks ago, Cleveland-area voters approved an extension of a “sin tax” to provide handouts to upgrade three major venues — Progressive Field for the Indians, Quicken Arena for the Cavaliers, and FirstEnergy Stadium for the Browns. Now the county executive has released his plan for distributing the $2.6 million per year: It will Read more →
For a guy who was put on a pedestal in the last month, the co-owner of California Chrome spit the bit after his horse ran out of gas in the third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown on Saturday.
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There were so many jaw-dropping factoids in the weekend Star Tribune article revealing what Minneapolis gave away to get the 2018 Super Bowl game that it’s hard to know where to begin. So let’s begin with the conclusion: Politicians either don’t know what’s going on in their own city, or they’re disingenuous in their denials of knowing what’s going on in their own city. Read more →
Kids today, eh? Hunter Gandee, 14, had to battle heat, rain, 40 miles of road, and the weight on his back yesterday when he carried his 7-year-old brother on his back to raise awareness of cerebral palsy. At about 30 miles, he was thinking of giving up. It took 30 hours to reach their destination. Read more →
The story behind this tweet from a nursing home is the stuff of a darned good movie. To mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day we wanted to share this incredible 'then and now' photo of Bernard #Hove #DDay pic.twitter.com/pQrc1FnXFY — Gracewell Healthcare (@GracewellHealth) June 6, 2014 Bernard Jordan, 89, went missing from the nursing home Read more →
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