NewsCut

A hero’s last day

Bob Collins December 30, 2011, 10:50 AM Dec 30, 2011

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An innovative program to help the most vulnerable among us closes today.

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Wait!

Bob Collins December 30, 2011, 10:21 AM Dec 30, 2011

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One of these days, I will set up a NewsCut category, ‘Public Radio references in popular culture.’

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Five by 8

In praise of young people (5×8 – 12/30/11)

Bob Collins December 30, 2011, 7:03 AM Dec 30, 2011

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The brilliance among us, the issues of Iowa, staying home with the kids, the church of the gay nativity, the oil patch isn’t for everyone, and Minneapolis by air.

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Whatever happened to that kid?

Bob Collins December 29, 2011, 3:00 PM Dec 29, 2011

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The last week of the year is a challenge for anyone in the news business; there’s simply very little news going on. So it’s a good time to waste time — cleaning out the e-mail for example.

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Christine Rosholt and the music she loved

Bob Collins December 29, 2011, 2:48 PM Dec 29, 2011

Longtime Minneapolis singer Christine Rosholt died unexpectedly this week, just a week before her 47th birthday.

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‘The khaki season’

Bob Collins December 29, 2011, 1:07 PM Dec 29, 2011

It’s no surprise at all that Leif Enger has coined the perfect name for the winter we’re having:

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Canoeing Bemidji

Bob Collins December 29, 2011, 12:11 PM Dec 29, 2011

We interrupt this not-really-any-season in Minnesota for a flashback to when nature had a clue.

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Regional history

Vanishing icons

Bob Collins December 29, 2011, 11:34 AM Dec 29, 2011

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What will happen to the Swany White flour mill smokestack.

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Five by 8

Words and phrases that should die in 2012 (5×8 – 12/29/11)

Bob Collins December 29, 2011, 7:35 AM Dec 29, 2011

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Tidying up the language, the winter that wasn’t, faceless, breastfeeding backlash, and last call for a polar bear.

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Trio hopes squirrels will lead to Super Bowl

Bob Collins December 28, 2011, 1:41 PM Dec 28, 2011

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Some pictures just scream,’What’s the story here?’. This one qualifies.

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Supreme Court: Challenge to Red Wing rental law is appropriate

Bob Collins December 28, 2011, 11:41 AM Dec 28, 2011

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The Minnesota Supreme Court today cleared the way for a constitutional challenge to a Red Wing ordinance that requires the inspection of rental properties.

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Five by 8

Walking drunk (5×8 – 12/28/11)

Bob Collins December 28, 2011, 7:05 AM Dec 28, 2011

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Is it safer to walk drunk than drive drunk, dispatches from the season of peace, the look of wasteful spending, the department of ‘what did he say?’, and the death of Cheetah.

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Reporter: ‘Why blogging ain’t reporting’

Bob Collins December 27, 2011, 3:30 PM Dec 27, 2011

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It’s pretty unusual to see journalists sniping at each other across the country, but that’s happening today between reporter/blogger Christine Negroni and a blogger at the New York Times.

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The cozy deals between medical companies and doctors explored

Bob Collins December 27, 2011, 1:05 PM Dec 27, 2011

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When it comes to writing research papers, doctors are the medical equivalent of journalists. In the ethics department, the two often couldn’t be further apart.

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Grocery shopping like a man

Bob Collins December 27, 2011, 11:24 AM Dec 27, 2011

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Men are taking over grocery stores.

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