Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
The now infamous Gillette ad audaciously suggesting that men treat women with respect and police the ones who don’t, has accomplished its mission of opening a discussion. It also required us — again — to listen to the sound of a million hissyfits by men who don’t have much to offer after ‘hey, baby!’ Read more →
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Her insulin supply has been restored. Her faith in people, too, perhaps. Read more →
Maybe Twitter would have eventually become an accepted source of news and information if Janis Krums hadn’t been on a ferry in the Hudson River when he was the first one to tell the world an airliner has landed in it.
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Child safety seats aren’t child safety seats unless you have them properly fastened to the car’s seat belts. Observe. Don’t do it like this. Read more →
Well, isn’t this sweet. Someone left a tip for a server at a sports bar in Sioux Falls on Saturday night and the message came through loud and clear. Read more →
We are desperate for human contact. We are desperate for friendship.
Why do we put so much energy into achieving just the opposite? Read more →
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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 →
A political party has been so effective at demonizing government that it’s asking a lot anymore to expect sympathy for the innocent victims of the collapse of a functioning government — government workers. But that doesn’t mean Mallory Lorge Bischoff’s story isn’t an appropriate reminder that beneath most headlines, there is a human story to consider. Read more →
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China today released the video of its lunar probe’s landing on the far side of the moon earlier this month.
Not surprisingly, at least for those of us who still are fascinated by space and its technology, it’s pretty cool. Read more →
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