Bob CollinsAn announcement today really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to public radio watchers but the descendant of the show that put St. Paul on the national map is heading for the bright lights permanently. Read more →
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To see an example of how humans hate the disruption of change, look no further than the comments attached the New York Times’ story on the new Morning Edition music for NPR. Read more →
The 100th anniversary of the birth of Pete Seeger is Friday. A remembrance is tentatively scheduled for today on All Things Considered, which reminded me of a distant NewsCut post on the subject. Read more →
It’s one thing to honor Prince; it’s another to make him part of a business model, John Shipley of the Pioneer Press says.
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Public Radio listeners, appropriately so, are sticklers for accuracy. So it’s at least a little amusing to read this week’s NPR Public Editor (formerly ombudsman) column which tackles the complaints of listeners who object to reporters and hosts pronouncing things correctly — specifically, non-English names.
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Jay Johnson inherited from his mom a priceless home full of buried treasures that have consumed his later years and kept him where he says he’s been all his life: poor. She left him something else: a keen interest in history, and a desire to tell the family story by preserving her grandfather’s Old Prospect Inn. Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League, the organization that controls high school sports here, is giving up its opposition to allowing boys to be on competitive dance teams in high school. Read more →
Unfortunately, we still don’t know who they are. Brooke Windsor tweeted the father and daughter wish to remain anonymous. Read more →
Sure, a local bookstore is a business, but when an owner — especially a new owner — shovels sand against the economic tide, it stands as a challenge to the rest of us: are we willing to do anything to keep local businesses and industries in our community and if so, what?
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Dylan doesn’t allow pictures to be taken during his concerts but the smartphones were out at a concert in Vienna and so Dylan stopped singing Blowin’ in the Wind and let the crowd have it.
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Chris Wenzel, a tattoo artist in Saskatoon, died last year of heart failure at 41. His wife, Cheryl, and he ran a tattoo shop.
She says he didn’t see much sense going through the process of getting a tattoo if they were just going to be buried with him, and he would’ve wanted Chris’ body of work to be preserved.
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It’s been four years since David Carr, the New York Times media columnist, died after collapsing in the Times’ newsroom. That’s four years we’ve have had to think countless times ‘I wish Carr were still around to see this.’ Read more →
The Kern Bridge, which has spanned the Le Sueur River in rural Mankato since 1873, somehow has survived its 145th winter and spring flooding season. Soon, it will be gone. Read more →
This is a pretty incredible photograph from Associated Press White House photograph Pablo Martinez Monsivais. Read more →
WordPress was down for most of the morning, so I couldn’t give you the benefit of my usual routine in the morning. Instead, I just went live on Facebook while I read the paper. Boring, I know, but this is gestational character of NewsCut. Read more →