Few TV documentaries have gripped the nation harder and quicker than Netflix’s “Making a Murderer,” which has raised questions about whether Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man convicted of a 2005 murder of a woman in Manitowoc County, Wisc., was railroaded by prosecutors. Read more →
The new year is looking pretty much like the old year in the Fargo school district where this proposed picture in the school yearbook remains an issue for some people. Read more →
Every year around this time, the Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival gets is underway in China, which causes the rest of us to wonder whether we’re doing winter right. Read more →
This is what it looks like to be rescued from a gondola by a helicopter.
Not shown: the guy who couldn’t put his cell camera down during the rescue.
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It’s likely only coincidence that on the same day, the BBC has aired a visit to an American gun show on the same day President Obama tightens restrictions on gun sales. Read more →
Everyone’s got an opinion of teachers but in North Dakota, only one person who wasn’t already a certified teacher wanted to try being one. One. One who wasn’t qualified.
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If ‘feel what it’s like to get Tased by cops’ is in your 2016 resolutions, you’ve got only a day to wait to respond to the Eagan Police Department’s solicitation for its Citizens Academy. Read more →
The Bartz boys of New Brighton are at it again. Read more →
The social media landscape has given rise to a new art form: the ‘why I quit’ treatise. You’ve probably seen them from time to time. Someone doesn’t want to work somewhere anymore, quits, and then bares all of the faults of the workplace with the innuendo that its time is up. Read more →
Anyone who’s delivered newspapers had to chortle a little bit over the weekend when the Boston Globe announced its reporters and employees would pitch in to deliver the newspaper because of widespread distribution failures.
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How you feel about a new study on telecommuting might well depend on whether you’re anxious to get back to the workplace today after the holiday break, or whether you’d like to stay put and work from home.
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Seinfeld fairly nails it when he notes that when the ’63 Stingray came out, America did things without having a reason to do it and a knowledge how.
That was back in the day when it could also have an occasional chuckle.
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None of these will make the news, although they reveal the nature of us. We put one foot forward, then the other, and exhibit a quiet dignity and strength whether we succeed or whether we fail. That alone is uplifting and worthy of our attention and gratitude. Read more →
It’s not every day that a Vatican entity longs for more evil in the world. Read more →
When I started NewsCut eight years ago this month, one of the things I wanted to do was provide the occasional behind-the-scenes look at MPR News, an area most people never get to see unless you take one of my patented two-hour in-person tours.
I never got around to it but being called out of radio talk-show retirement in the last couple of weeks to fill in for Kerri Miller reminded me again that radio is an iceberg, most of which lies beneath the surface. Read more →
Bob Collins