Bob Collins
‘Comfort Dogs’ have begun arriving at the scene of Sunday’s mass killing. They’re doing what they do best: be dogs. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
A Boston restaurant is getting a little attention today for solving the growing question surrounding mens and ladies bathrooms and who should be allowed to enter which one. Read more →
After three successful attempts to land a booster rocket on an ocean barge — to be used again later — it exploded on a fourth attempt by SpaceX today. Read more →
It is a truth, of course, that nobody gets out of life alive, which puts coffee drinkers today in a position to evaluate the meaning of life in very real way: Is life worth living if we don’t enjoy what might make it shorter? Read more →
The week is either horse racing with a side show of fashion, or a fashion show with a side show of horse racing. Read more →
Is it still possible to come up with a regional and professional transportation policy in the Twin Cities?
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There were two interviews in the media on Tuesday which deserved the attention in this space.
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Michael Thomas, the interim superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools, did the incoming permanent superintendent a huge favor when he cleaned up the mess created by the system’s human resources department, who moved to fire a teacher who was arrested while monitoring the arrest of a black man last month. Read more →
Target employees and customers at a store in Connecticut are getting applause after coming to the defense of a woman who was breastfeeding her baby.
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They had to liven up Kiester, Minn., a bit to make an ad for Preparation H a little more lively. That’s the way things are in Kiester these days; it takes a hemorrhoids ad to get it some action. Kiester, population 501, needed some ringers for the ad, Mankato Free Press reports. It showed, for Read more →
Unable to reconcile all of this on the question, I’m comfortable dropping the phrase in recognition that it can obscure a more important point: we’ve been really good at killing innocent people in this country for a long, long time.
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You’ve probably noticed that the comment “balloons”have read “0” for some time, giving the indication that there is no underlying discussion taking place on any of the NewsCut posts. It’s not true. A few weeks ago, some tinkering with the guts of Word Press destroyed some of the key features that you see on NewsCut Read more →
When former NFL player Steve Gleason’s son, Rivers, was born, he began a series of personal video journals ‘as a way of sharing my life, who I am, and love for him,’ he writes. Read more →
The coverage of the aftermath of the mass killing in Orlando is following a well-worn path — we’ve gotten pretty good at developing the template in these sorts of things.
We’ve now reached the ‘don’t name the shooter’ debate. Read more →
It’s Flag Day, the annual NewsCut tradition of which requires us to cite — and maybe mock a bit — the way people show their love for the American flag, often by abusing it. Read more →