Just checking in on the Denver sportswriter who criticized Minnesota Wild fans last week after the Colorado Avalanche appeared on the version of wiping the local team off the playoff map. He said Wild players were bellyachers, calling the coach duller than a fence post, and seemed to mock ‘The Great State of Hockey.’ Read more →
At last official count, there were only 699 residents of Hendricks, Minnesota, aka ‘The Little Town By the Lake,’ so the idea of a “flash mob” isn’t a practical notion, especially given the weather these days.
Our pal in the town, Steve Hemmingsen, gave it a shot anyway today, sending out an e-mail to town residents urging them to head for the drug store. He didn’t say why, other than it would be fun.
He said in a follow-up email to residents that about 5 percent of the “ambulatory population” of the community showed up. Read more →
In upholding the constitutionality of Minnesota’s law allowing a 50-year order for protection for victims of domestic abuse, the Minnesota Supreme Court was sharply divided today on the question of whether abuse or stalking of a mother constitutes abuse of the children when it comes to deciding whether parenting time should be restricted. Read more →
While it considers new regulations on quadcopters, the Federal Aviation Administration is taking on a role of the 2014 version of Prohibition’s revenuers. Read more →
Two news stories today involve people who helped people they’ve never met. As a result, a boy in Kabul is going to school and a two-year-old in Pine City is getting a kidney. Read more →
There’s no nice way to describe what happened in Oklahoma last evening, where for weeks people have been trying to tell a state that attempting to execute two men using experimental drugs was a bad idea .
No doubt, some people will say, ‘good, let ’em suffer,’ but public policy shouldn’t be dictated by people without a functioning soul. Read more →
People were shut out of buying Paul McCartney tickets over the last week and, not unexpectedly, scalpers are in the crosshairs. It’s not fair, they said, that scalpers were able to get their hands on tickets, while they had no chance of seeing the oldtimer from Liverpool. Read more →
The NBA’s punishment for Donald Sterling has to hurt, right? Hardly. Read more →
The other day on NewsCut, you may recall, we discussed the growing number of admonishments to graduating seniors in high school and college to cut the gymnastics and selfies.
Not everyone at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Michigan got the word. Read more →
A southeasterly wind and breaking ice continue to plague a few homeowners on the west shore of Lake Mille Lacs.
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What are the odds that a special education teacher would go on a nasty rant about her students, while she ‘pocket dialed’ her phone, and the call went to the parent of a special education student? Read more →
The Hermantown School Board last night caved to the public outcry it prompted by cutting $2,500 from the cheerleading program. The elimination of two elementary school teachers remains in force.
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Let this be a lesson: pay your taxes on time. Read more →
Ryan Larson, the man falsely suspected of killing of Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker in 2012, might have a struggle in court proving his defamation suits against — so far — WCCO and KSTP, but with any luck, he’ll succeed in getting local news media to take a step back and a deep breath in similar stories in the future. Read more →
When you’re facing elimination in the Stanley Cup playoffs, you’ll grasp at anything.
The Wild was on the edge last night against the Colorado Avalanche, having coughed up a two-goal lead. The Minnesota sports fan was sure this would end badly. How could it not? It’s Minnesota sports. Read more →
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