Bob CollinsNow that the Minnesota Legislature has gotten it together and banned the use of hand-held cellphones while driving, perhaps it’s time to turn attention to bowls of cereal. Read more →
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Nicholas Troller got permission a few years ago for the ASIMIL8 license plate, which is displayed in a ‘We are the Borg’ and ‘Resistance is Futile’ plate frame, based on the Star Trek story.
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Some PR agency figured out how to get NewsCut to pay attention to a press release: put dogs in it. Read more →
Let’s get to the good stuff first: the part about why we’re better than the rest of the nation. Read more →
Before we begin a week of telling you all the horrible things and despicable people in the world, this equal time (one can only wish) for a dissenting view.
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Find the spelling mistakes in these signs being posted around US Bank Stadium for this weekend’s NCAA Final Four basketball championship. Read more →
This is the darkness that is descending. Read more →
It was pretty tough finding news and information on TV monitors at La Crosse Airport on Thursday, what with the monitors showing pornographic video and all, according to reports. Read more →
People cannot possibly still be oblivious to the carnage from driving distracted, yet people still drive while texting. For decades, authorities have warned drivers not to try to go through standing water, and people keep driving through standing water and become the poster children for additional warnings not to do it.
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Ayd Mill Road is a metaphor for the entire transportation policy of Minnesota. For decades, it’s been a road in search of a vision. With officials and residents unable to agree on one, it collapses under the weight of its own existence. Read more →
It’s really not that people don’t want solid news reporting; they just don’t want to pay for it and they’re going to keep that insistence, apparently, until it becomes a moot point. Soon. Read more →
Now that the state is on the eve of banning the handheld use of cellphones, let’s talk pig, specifically driving with a pig on your lap. Read more →
All the passengers got on the plane thinking they were going to Germany. But the paperwork submitted to the pilots said Edinburgh. So Edinburgh it was.
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Among the many things on the NewsCut Bucket List is ‘don’t go on a cruise.’
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Nancy Barnes, the former editor and senior vice president at the Star Tribune, has laid out her vision for the future of NPR News, the network’s public editor reports. Last October, Barnes was tabbed to take the job once held by the disgraced Michael Oreskes, forced to resign as the result of a sexual harassment scandal in 2017.
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