A lot of us laughed when an off-season statistics calculation predicted the Minnesota Twins would win nearly 80 games this season, even though the franchise did almost nothing in the off-season to boost their roster, which lost more than 100 games last season.
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Yes, we’re fully aware that NewsCut has its share of readers who will say, ‘what are these kids learning by intentionally striking out so Braydon Gero, 12, a kid with Down Syndrome can have a happy moment in his last Little League game of the season?’
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Andrea Pitzer, a writer for Slate, says Dylan lifting the work of others is nothing new and checking his work has sparked a cottage industry.
Dylan got $923,000 for his lecture as part of his Nobel Prize in literature. Pitzer says he should give some of it to the authors of the work he used. Read more →
The future of Obamacare is being decided in a back room somewhere in Washington, from what we’ve been told, but maybe its immediate future is being decided in some cubicles in the Twin Cities.
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What’s another day in June without a yearbook controversy in the nation’s schools?
This time it’s Wall High School in New Jersey where student Grant Berardo noticed a difference between the photo he submitted and the one that was printed, according to the Asbury Park Press. Read more →
Where is the next generation of pilots coming from? Sometimes, they come from the garage; they’re the little kids building airplanes with a grown-up. Read more →
If you’re a veteran and you want the government to honor its committment to provide health care coverage, it helps if you can get your story told on a local TV station. Read more →
If you stuck up a bank and walked away with a few hundred thousand dollars — several times — how long do you think you’d be in prison?
The case of a White Bear Lake man provides an instruction for how to steal money properly: do it with a white collar.
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Parking lot attendants in Fargo are finding out what most cities have already learned. The world doesn’t need parking lot attendants anymore. Read more →
If you’ve watched sports stadium debates over the years, you might recognize the technique. Nothing’s ever dead except for people’s interest in opposing it. Read more →
Peteris Sahurovs, 28, of Latvia has finally appeared in a Minnesota court years after being indicted for a scheme that put ‘scareware’ on people’s computers Read more →
In 2005, the Army recalled Martin Breaker, a reservist, and when he informed BSU that he intended to return in 2008, the state university said his previous positions had been eliminated. It offered him a temporary position at less pay. Read more →
Former University of North Dakota hockey player Carter Rowney won a Stanley Cup last night with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Read more →
Eighteen years ago, Phil Kiltie, a retired teacher in Alexandria, got a nice letter from Scott Lempka, who was once in Kiltie’s fourth-grade class, had grown up and become a teacher himself in Ohio.
Kiltie kept the letter. Teachers, we’re guessing, especially fourth-grade teachers, don’t get a lot of letters from their all-grown-up students. Read more →
School’s out! It’s a time to get inside and play! Read more →
Bob Collins