Bob Collins
We are desperate for human contact. We are desperate for friendship.
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‘The best a man can get’, the long-time advertising slogan of Gillette, is being turned on its head in the #MeToo era. Read more →
Michelle Messer of Big Lake, Minn., a big fan of Ellen DeGeneres, didn’t know the fix was in to get her on the show, which airs today. Read more →
There are plenty of critics about the value of passion when it comes to employment. We’re looking at you, Mike Rowe, who’s made a good living following his. So we were heartened to read a sweet little story today in the Kanabec County Times about Donald Erickson, whose passion is grocery stores. Read more →
It’s unlikely we’re going to find out who the grumps are in Richfield who complained about the memorials at a bench built to honor a man who was killed in 2017. But from the sound of KARE 11’s report, there are plenty of them. Read more →
A growing trend on the slopes makes so much sense, it’s surprising nobody thought of it before: chairlift speed dating. Read more →
Matt MikusMinnesota tops another state-ranking list, this time looking at which state is best to raise a family. Read more →
With the benefit of hindsight, Jane Lowe, of Halifax, N.S., realizes that she shouldn’t have asked her husband, Jim, to hide her good jewelry in case someone broke into their house while they were away.
In hindsight, Jim probably shouldn’t have stashed it in a bag of clothing. Read more →
Hustisford, Wis. starts each year with the toilet bowl, a chance for people to throw cheap rolls of toilet paper at each other. Read more →
The Angle, for those of you who’ve not studied maps of Minnesota, is a spit of land in Lake of the Woods County that is north of the line that generally defines the U.S. border and belongs to the United States. It is — other than Alaska — the only U.S. territory north of the 49th parallel — i.e. the border.
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The struggle is real in rural Minnesota, people. Oh, sure, you city slickers have it pretty easy when you need a bunch of crickets for whatever you need crickets for. But in rural Minnesota? It’s cricket eat cricket out there.
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A lot of people had to work over Christmas and it’s not much fun being away from family on the holiday.
Hal Vaughn would have none of it for his daughter, Pierce, who is a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. Read more →
Snickers salad? Why, it screams ‘charming 88-year-old family matriarch.’
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But here’s the big question we have: How many stinking pictures of a guy talking on the phone do the White House press photographers need to take? Read more →
I wrote last week that I’m not posting the most viewed stories of the year on NewsCut this year, but I will post the story of the year — the one I wrote about on this date in 2015. Nothing much has changed. My story of the year in 2018, is the same one it was in 2015 Read more →