Bob Collins‘It’s compelling and powerful to watch a black woman stare down the barrel of violent racism and say, ‘I forgive you,” a reporter who covers race says.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
No more entries, please. We have our champion in the contest for Most Canada Thing Ever.
How could it anything but this, eh? Read more →
When it was revealed that Cindy Stowell had died, weeks after taping an appearance on Jeopardy, we had no idea how well she did on the show, a lifelong dream, apparently.
Now we do.
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It’s fair to say that Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray is hardly liberal.
So when he wrote today about the scandal at the University of Minnesota football program, and the head coach who oversees the student athletes, it’s going to be harder for the few still on the ‘what’s the big deal?’ bandwagon to hold on. Read more →
Being a Catholic, Cecilia Latorre, of Edmonton knows it’s sacrilegious of her to set up a little nativity scene in her home featuring Prince. ‘But it’s important to me,’ she tells the CBC.
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Here’s a video to remember the next time you look in your rear-view mirror and see a semi that’s pulled up within a few feet of your rear bumper while you’re barreling down the highway. Read more →
I was going to just post some videos of penguins here so that you didn’t come here for nothing today, but let’s do that December thing instead and reveal the top 10 blog posts for NewsCut for 2016.
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The Fargo Forum got plenty of pushback earlier this month when it reported the death of a man in a Fargo house fire. Nickolas Pulicicchio, 38, died in a fire November 30. “Puliciccio was sentenced to 60 days in jail in 2014 for stealing $60,000 in coins from a UPS shipping center in Fargo. The Read more →
The Internet’s power was supposed to be giving a voice to the voiceless. They had their chance and, a casual walk through the comments section of most websites reveals, they botched it. Read more →
Can we give it up, please, for Rick Oglesby, of North Mankato, and all the people like him who usually get no public credit for what they do each day? They’re the type to pick up your trash along the side of the road. Read more →
The sports fans of Cleveland are mad — really mad — that their football team stinks again. So, they’re going to throw them a parade.
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The U.S. ambassador to Norway, a woman who gained fame in Norway for finishing second in Norway’s version of American idol, and Norway’s most famous TV news anchor, drive around Oslo singing Christmas songs in Norwegian in this video provided by the U.S. embassy in Oslo. Read more →
Among the more absurd observations in the wake of last week’s ‘boycott’ by the student-athletes of the University of Minnesota football team, was this in Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse’s column on Saturday.
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Somewhere out there is a driver of a semi who swerved into the wrong lane on I-94 near Dalton, Minn., and causing 18-year-old Zach Kvalvog to overcorrect. Zach and his 14-year-old brother, Connor, died in the crash.
The truck driver kept on going, and apparently is willing to let a number of other people take the fall. Or was there a semi at all? Read more →
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety this afternoon released this video, shot from the dash of a State Patrol cruiser, to remind people to slow down in icy conditions. Read more →