Bob Collins
The clocks changed this morning because people listen to radio differently now. NPR’s national newscasts are more frequent now Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for November 2014
Paul Tosto
The Red Bulls will spend six months in Liberia, starting in April. They’ll provide support to U.S. military forces but will not be responsible for treating Ebola patients. Read more →
Every year around this time the NewsCut tradition calls for a sharing of our proposed taxes for the new year, the notices for which should be arriving soon if it hasn’t already.
Let me know in the comments section what the tax hit is for you in 2015 and indicate the location.
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Matt Taylor made the mistake of wearing a shirt showing women in bondage when he took part in a briefing on the Rosetta mission, which this week landed a spacecraft on a comet.
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Eric Ringham
Jack Reuler is frustrated to the point of incoherence because he can’t get police or anyone else to listen to him about an abduction he witnessed. Read more →
Forty percent of the young people in America ages 16 to 24 don’t have a job, according to data from Pew Research released today.
That’s certainly an eye-opening statistic. Here’s the befuddling one, at least to those of us who drag ourselves out of bed and out the door on a near daily basis: Many of them don’t want jobs. Read more →
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness and heartbreak.
It’s Chris Picco of Loma Linda, Calif., playing music for his dying son.
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Westminster, Massachusetts, a little rural town deep in the heart of the ancestral homeland of NewsCut, became a national battleground in smokers’ ‘rights’ this week when it was poised to become the first community in the country to ban the sale of tobacco products. Read more →
The big news in science today is that a guy smart enough to help land a spaceship on a comet was dumb enough to wear this shirt to talk about it.
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Myron J. Schober, 78, has died. Schober was an old-school newspaperman and says the most important words ‘I ever did’ were these. Read more →
Today’s must-read comes from the Washington Post where a woman who says she was raped — twice — by Bill Cosby asks important questions that she’s had for 30 years: Why didn’t anyone believe her?
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Add the Star Tribune editorial to the list of journalists who find no redeeming quality in Jay Kolls’ sloppy expose of Mayor Betsy Hodges door-knocking campaign in which she was alleged to have flashed gang signs. Read more →
Justus Belfield, 98, of upstate New York, had his moments of fame this week when this picture of him saluting in uniform from his nursing home bed raced around social media. Read more →
John Doar was “one of us” in the classic way we proudly claim ownership of legends. But his contributions to the world were often overlooked, especially here, for some odd reason. Read more →
Politifact is making a big deal today out of finding out this meme on social media is actually true. Read more →