Bob CollinsIs there any other sport besides running marathons where winning isn’t a goal?
We have a special place in our NewsCut heart for people who run 26 miles with nothing but the intention to have a blast along the way. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
An East Grand Forks teacher who was suspended for criticizing Somalis who don’t show up for their English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classes says he wrote his letter to administrators to ‘brainstorm’ ways to teach the class. Read more →
It’s a silly notion, however, that a pilot would be able to read a registration number on a drone; I was too busy to try to read the “N-number” on the little Cessna filling my windshield, and those letters are as high as a drone is wide.
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NewsCut set a record for web traffic in October, although — when we stop to think about it — it wasn’t really a month for earth-shattering news. But interesting stories don’t need to destroy earth. Here are the ones you selected (in descending order) this month:
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There’s been another confrontation on the mean streets of Washington, D.C., between a police officer and the public. And a dance-off settled it. Read more →
Occassionally, we get fleeting ‘West Wing-style’ glimpses of what is possible, even if they’re usually mere rhetorical flourishes.
Today provided one of those moments when the U.S. House of Representatives elected a new speaker of the house.
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Maybe it wouldn’t kill you just once, ‘pathletes’ to take a lesson from the — ducking here — ‘burbs. Read more →
Thanks to John Millea at the Minnesota State High School League, we know a little more about the person responsible for stenciling a large #11 on the field at Cleveland High School last Saturday for its winner-goes-to-state game against Renville West. The number honored Brandon Limones, a Renville West player who died in March. Millea Read more →
Jerry Kill is fair game for the typical judgments of media, which needs to keep a hot story going somehow. But who are we to declare how other people live? Read more →
Thou shalt not pray at high school football games, at least if you’re a coach. Read more →
We don’t always know what we think we know. Read more →
You can probably get a pretty good deal on a professional football team most people in Minnesota have never heard of. Read more →
North Dakota State University is considering a significant change to its education program that would allow students to get credit in a subject without actually taking a course in the subject. Students would still be required to take some specific courses — English 102, for example — but other credits would be absorbed into other Read more →
If you live in a metropolitan area, there’s a pretty fair chance that you’ll pull up to an intersection today and a homeless person will be standing there with a cardboard sign.
You might throw a few bucks his/her way, but probably not. More likely, you’ll try to avoid eye contact, and feel fairly miserable in the process.
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It’s somewhat comforting to know that the book-spine trash talking between libraries didn’t end after the Toronto and Kansas City playoff series.
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