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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Heartbreaking, doesn’t do justice to the story of a Minnesota family who were included in last night’s CBS’ 60 Minutes broadcast, which focused on a little known brand of dementia called frontotemporal dementia.
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To see an example of how humans hate the disruption of change, look no further than the comments attached the New York Times’ story on the new Morning Edition music for NPR. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear on Monday on MPR News. Read more →
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No NewsCut today. Day game at Target Field. Thursday May 2, 2019 (Subject to change as events dictate. This page is updated throughout the day.) 9 a.m. – MPR News with Kerri Miller On Tuesday afternoon, a jury of 10 men and two women found former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor guilty of third-degree murder Read more →
t the University of Maryland Medical Center, a woman received a kidney for transplant that was delivered by drone.
It was test, but it was a real kidney being used to bring it to a real patient who needed it, the New York Times reports. Read more →
The sports marketing world went briefly to DEFCON 1 on Tuesday after it was revealed that the NFL had applied for a trademark on the name Duluth Eskimos, the professional football team that played for a few years in the ’20s when the game was still developing. Read more →
The 100th anniversary of the birth of Pete Seeger is Friday. A remembrance is tentatively scheduled for today on All Things Considered, which reminded me of a distant NewsCut post on the subject. Read more →
Sometimes it takes bullying to recalibrate the arrogance of the majority and pull a civilized world out of the darkness of its ignorance. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear on MPR News on Wednesday. Read more →
I can’t recall ever seeing a perspective like this of a tornado, but it happened today in Sulphur, OK when someone launched a drone to follow it. Read more →
According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, teenage suicide spiked 28.9% after the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” premiered in 2017. That’s 195 dead kids more than would have been expected. Read more →
Someone hacked the website of the group trying to restore the name of Bde Maka Ska. Read more →
It’s one thing to honor Prince; it’s another to make him part of a business model, John Shipley of the Pioneer Press says.
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