For the rest of this week, this is going to be the official NewsCut office. When you’re a fan of a baseball team that hasn’t won a World Series in your lifetime, the window of hope in a given season is pretty short, so I’m heading to Arizona to watch some spring baseball while there’s still hope. Read more →
Windham, who died last night, was as good a person character-wise as you’ll ever find in a newsroom as evidenced by his work with young people, with whom he led overseas mission trips. Read more →
A new Minnesota man won’t be able to collect $17,000 in medical payments incurred in a car accident because his out-of-state insurance company isn’t allowed to write insurance in Minnesota. Read more →
If your company wants to document people who have made a difference in society, it’s better to just to ignore people who made a difference in society because society rarely changes calmly.
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If the party leaders are wrong and Trump should win the White House, nine months from now journalists will be writing stories about how they gave him a free pass. Read more →
Given that he was laid off during the Great Recession, it’s unlikely that Ryan McCuen, of the Clinton Township Fire Department in Michigan, has a lot of money to just throw around, even if he did start a lawn service before he was hired back last year. Read more →
Trying to pull your truck out of the ice? Lake Onalaska — the part of the Mississippi River separating La Crosse, Wis., from Dresbach, Minn. — is a lake that makes you work for it. Read more →
Nothing stirs up a Friday like an op-ed column suggesting people on bikes get/don’t get a little break from time to time. Read more →
Here’s today’s moments of bittersweetness, parental-guilt edition. Read more →
It’s hard to tell whether the long lines at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport are because of spring break or because authorities have broken something that wasn’t broken as much. Read more →
The robocalls to Minnesota households from the American National Super PAC explicitly state that they’re not sponsored by Donald Trump.
The calls are urging a vote for Trump, joining former KKK grand wizard David Duke embracing the policies that have earned Trump frontrunner status for the GOP nomination. Read more →
In the waning days of Black History Month, Debi Thomas should get a little attention for proving, as she did at the 1988 Olympics, that an African American can succeed at figure skating while acing college exams. Read more →
We shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves. We shouldn’t be so hard on each other. Read more →
After shaving six minutes off the time of a game last year, Major League Baseball is trying more ideas to speed up the game. Read more →
The decision to shutter Al Jazeera America recently was met with a general shoulder shrug. It was hard to find the channel on cable TV. It was easy to find its website, but not enough people were interested in finding it. Read more →
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