Bob CollinsIs it still possible to come up with a regional and professional transportation policy in the Twin Cities?
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for June 2016
There were two interviews in the media on Tuesday which deserved the attention in this space.
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Michael Thomas, the interim superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools, did the incoming permanent superintendent a huge favor when he cleaned up the mess created by the system’s human resources department, who moved to fire a teacher who was arrested while monitoring the arrest of a black man last month. Read more →
Target employees and customers at a store in Connecticut are getting applause after coming to the defense of a woman who was breastfeeding her baby.
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They had to liven up Kiester, Minn., a bit to make an ad for Preparation H a little more lively. That’s the way things are in Kiester these days; it takes a hemorrhoids ad to get it some action. Kiester, population 501, needed some ringers for the ad, Mankato Free Press reports. It showed, for Read more →
Unable to reconcile all of this on the question, I’m comfortable dropping the phrase in recognition that it can obscure a more important point: we’ve been really good at killing innocent people in this country for a long, long time.
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You’ve probably noticed that the comment “balloons”have read “0” for some time, giving the indication that there is no underlying discussion taking place on any of the NewsCut posts. It’s not true. A few weeks ago, some tinkering with the guts of Word Press destroyed some of the key features that you see on NewsCut Read more →
When former NFL player Steve Gleason’s son, Rivers, was born, he began a series of personal video journals ‘as a way of sharing my life, who I am, and love for him,’ he writes. Read more →
The coverage of the aftermath of the mass killing in Orlando is following a well-worn path — we’ve gotten pretty good at developing the template in these sorts of things.
We’ve now reached the ‘don’t name the shooter’ debate. Read more →
It’s Flag Day, the annual NewsCut tradition of which requires us to cite — and maybe mock a bit — the way people show their love for the American flag, often by abusing it. Read more →
A teacher at Washburn High in Minneapolis was threated with being fired because she stopped to monitor the arrest of an African American man by Minneapolis police and then was arrested for obstructing justice. Read more →
Jimmy Greene’s and Nelba Márquez-Greene’s Facebook post shows that they relive their day of horror every day there’s another one for someone else. Read more →
Back in 2012, things were going pretty well for Kevin Burkart of Prior Lake to hit his goal of jumping out of an airplane 300 times in one day to help raise awareness and money for research of Parkinson’s Disease, an affliction that affects his dad.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that housing inspectors in a Twin Cities suburb can search rental housing units for code violations even if there’s no suspicion that any exist. Read more →
The Twins don’t appear too interesting in making the same mistake the Minnesota Timberwolves made when they slashed ticket prices to get people to show up at the arena. Read more →