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.
Former Minnesota Twin Brad Radke was a workhorse for the team. He had one good year — 1997 when he went 20-10 — but he ended up as a .500 pitcher.
He was never a flashy sort of player and he didn’t scream ‘personality.’ He was a fairly low-key kind of guy.
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You don’t enjoy some constitutional rights inside a school that you have outside one, at least if you’re a student. Read more →
Donald Kundel, 79, died in the 2012 incident in Laramie, Wyoming. He had left Duluth several hours earlier to visit his son. Read more →
There are a couple of “stories” today about the last moments of public people that are well worth your time.
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For most of this year, a spirited group of Concordia University students has been learning more about the legislative process by championing a bill they said would strip lawmakers of immunity if they’re arrested for drunk driving during the session. No doubt it’s been a great learning experience but yesterday’s lesson came from attorney general Read more →
Unless you think ‘the retard room’ is how you think kids should refer to classrooms for special needs students, there’s not much to discuss about an effort to remove a nearly 30-year-old book called ‘Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You’ from Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan schools. But it’ll be discussed anyway. Read more →
This is the face of unemployment. A 10 year old girl so worried that her dad hasn’t been able to find work for the last three years, that she hands his resume to the wife of the president of the United States.
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Ken E. Nwadike Jr. of Los Angeles, says he failed to qualify for the Boston Marathon by 23 seconds. He’s a race event coordinator who raises money for charities. He says he started running while homeless as a high school student. He went to Boston anyway. To hug people. Read more →
Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher at the center of a high-profile fight with the federal government over grazing and the seizure of cattle, let his inner racist out, and that has Republicans who embraced him scurrying.
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Off-duty bus driver Surjit Singh Virk took these pictures Saturday near Vancouver when he saw something he thinks the rest of the world should see. Read more →
You’d recognize a relative if he/she was one of the homeless people on the street or skyways, right? Of course you would. Who wouldn’t?
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You spend tens of thousands of dollars pursuing a college degree. You’ll be saddled with crushing debt which likely will keep you from owning a home or maybe even getting ahead. You’ll be entering a terrible job market. Is it really so bad if you want to take a selfie of you getting your diploma? Read more →
This is how every mother’s birthday should be. Read more →
For the most part, Americans got all glassy-eyed when the tech types tried to whip up support for “net neutrality,” which treats everyone as equal on the Internet. Now, we’re about to pay the price — literally — for our indifference.
Netflix announced to investors this week that it will raise its monthly price, hardly surprising after the shakedown Comcast staged by throttling Netflix content, causing buffering and angry customers to the point where Netflix had no choice but to pay Comcast more money to clear the roadblock.
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