Bob Collins
It’s a stunning display of courage in the interest of journalism turned in by a photographer for the Associated Press today. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
We haven’t played You Are Editor in a long time. Let’s play. Here are three scenarios about the news and social media. You make the call. Read more →
Today’s daily dose of sweetness comes from Concord, Mass., where Noah Kieran, of nearby Littleton, celebrated his 6th birthday and got a bunch of presents. Read more →
The claims of voter fraud across the nation have been debunked by authorities, but that has never come close to stopping the assertions, nor the attempts to make voting more difficult under the assumption that it exists. Read more →
What if Donald Trump’s biggest accomplishment turns out to be the fact he made Saturday Night Live funny again? Read more →
Jake Nyberg, a writer and interactive marketer in Minneapolis, apparently wanted to embarrass the Minnesota Vikings and force the team to deny they would help homeless people. So he started a rumor on Twitter that they were providing shelter in the new stadium, hoping the fake news would spread and force the team to appear to turn its backs on homeless people. Funny stuff, indeed. Read more →
… make snowballs. Read more →
When it comes to health care, Minnesota is the nation’s teacher.
The Boston Globe reports that a contingent from Massachusetts, a state that usually ranks fairly high in health care innovation, is finishing up two days of meetings with experts in Minnesota to figure out what this state knows that others don’t. Read more →
North Carolina is the latest location to provide an example of bare-knuckle politics that leads to the kind of cynicsm among voters that politicians like to criticize Read more →
The players have boycotted practice and are threatening to sit out the team’s bowl game, apparently a move to try to pressure school officials to ignore whatever was in that 82-page report.
There can be only one reasonable reaction: Go ahead.
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There is no news value in what you’re about to read. I wouldn’t want anyone to think that I was elevating a personal story to the rarefied air of a NewsCut topic. But it provides some background for why posting will be light here today and also closes the book on a chapter of NewsCut that occasionally surfaced here: the time I built my own airplane in my garage. Read more →
When he died last Friday, Chris Connors, of York, Maine, was said to have expired from a combination of stubborness and whiskey. Also ALS and pancreatic cancer.
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Will someone please try this with Minnesotans? Read more →
Edwin Benson has died and with him a language may also pass on. Benson, of Twin Buttes on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in west-central North Dakota, was the last living person who could fluently speak Mandan.. Read more →
The story of the child who died in the arms of Santa Claus, posted earlier this week, was so poignant and unusual that there had to be doubt whether it actually happened. But those sure looked like real tears that Eric Schmitt-Matzen — Santa — was shedding in his interview with the Knoxville News Sentinel when he was telling it. But now the paper says it might all be a fake.
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