University of Minnesota Duluth is one of the most expensive colleges in the country, according to a recent analysis cited by the UMD Statesman. Between 2010 and 2012, the U.S. Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center ranked UMD within the top twenty most expensive four-year public institutions in the nation for net cost. Read more →
The Department of Natural Resources says an Aitkin County woman is OK after being involved in something that almost never happens in Minnesota — an attack by a black bear. According to the DNR: …the incident on Monday began when the woman let her dog outside after checking to make sure the bears, which had Read more →
It was 45 years ago today that Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Robert F. Kennedy after a celebration over Kennedy’s win in the California presidential primary. Read more →
The last walk, the business of bad news, the flag burners of Willmar, what black men and women want, and bob Dylan’s honneur. Read more →
Did the IRS want to know the content of prayers? An insanity plea in the Colorado theater shooting case. The widest tornado ever. Why are blacks more likely to be arrested for marijuana? Wisconsin rejects expanding Medicaid. And the not-yet-finished Crazy Horse monument turns 65.
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Be forewarned, politicians: It’s a lousy springboard to anything else, history says. Read more →
It’s getting increasingly hard for an old man, such as myself, to listen to the latest status reports on the state of the climate on terra firma and not think, “what do you want me to do about it?”, because there appears to be nothing I can do about it. The idea that the countries Read more →
It would be a shame if the story of Steve Knowlton’s run across America to raise awareness of Asperger’s and autism should include the word “fail,” because from all accounts, the guy is all guts. Mr. Knowlton, who hails from Prior Lake, had to abandon his run on Sunday in the hills of Utah, according Read more →
Regular NewsCut readers know how obsessed I am with well-written obituaries. Some of us go through life; others live it, and the well-done final tribute can be a call to recalibrate it. Today’s Star Tribune obituary of Harold Macoubrey Cragg is a perfect example and not to be missed. He died late last month at Read more →
Guilty until proven innocent? North Dakota justice. Jesse Ventura: Embarrassment. Dreaming trains. And songs to move the NPR headquarters by. Read more →
Minnesota has one of the highest home ownership rates and lowest jobless rates in the nation. That’s been consistently true in good economic times and bad. So it’s completely weird lately to read research arguing that, nationally, just the opposite is true — that rising home ownership in a state is a “precursor to eventual sharp Read more →
Faced with a stinging weekend of criticism — I wrote about it on Saturday — the Cleveland Indians today relented and agreed to give new tickets to its fans who were forced to either go home or stay until midnight when a rain-delayed game got underway. Here’s the team’s statement today: The Cleveland Indians today Read more →
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision could expand DNA’s role because it allows warrantless DNA searches of people who are arrested, not just those convicted. Read more →
Because of Tim Samaras’ encounter with a tornado in South Dakota, we know a lot more about what happens when a tornado hits than the fact it sounds like a train.
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