Bob CollinsSo, there was this snowy owl minding its own business on a light pole in Duluth at dawn this morning, Richard Hoeg writes on his blog, 365 Days of Birds.
A little while after Hoeg found the owl, so did the crows.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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Predictably, perhaps, we’ve waited until the last couple of days of 2016 to apply the brakes to the “2016 is the worst year ever” movement.
I’m a glass-half-full kind of guy so this video today reaffirmed something I’ve long believed: If something’s getting done, it’s probably science. Read more →
As 2016 exits, we’ll take hope anywhere we can find it.
Today we find it in Bahrain, a Muslim-majority monarchy.
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My goal for 2017 is to be more like Daniel Alvarez, and write about more people like him . 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 →
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 →
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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Real Minnesotans? They’re the ones who’ll stand along the canal in Duluth when an ice-laden ship like the Great Lakes Trader comes in from the netherworld of lake Superior as it did today. Read more →
It appears suckers are now being born at a greater rate than every minute. Read more →
‘Live your life without regret,’ the self-help charlatans advise in their absurd and simplistic way.
Better? Give yourself a break for being a kid.
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We’ve got another escalation in the ‘arm’s race’ of marriage proposals, each needing to be bigger and more spectacular than the last one that went viral. A quiet dinner and a private moment? So yesterday. Read more →