Moschino? More like NOschino, at least at Nordstrom. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for October 2016
In St. Charles, Minn., gateway to Whitewater, there lives a young woman who was raised properly. Read more →
The coach of Red Wing High School’s football team has resigned, just a few days after a GOP politician said his son was punished for his politics.
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It was a shocking moment the other night when someone threw a can of beer at an outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles, just as he was about to make a catch on a deep fly in the wild card play-in game. Read more →
The weather of the last week has reminded me that there’s no good reason to stay in the official NewsCut cubicle, given that in a few months we’ll be paralyzed by flurries. There’s something about fall in Minnesota that gives me journalistic wanderlust. Read more →
Apollo 8 wasn’t a moon-landing mission; it was a test of whether the spacecraft could get there. So Frank Borman never got a chance to do what only 12 humans have ever done: walk on the moon.
Here’s the thing. He didn’t want to. Read more →
A crowd of mostly white, mostly Christian residents of Detroit Lakes wanted nothing to do with an anti-Muslim speaker who disrupted a ‘Meet Your Muslim Neighbors’ night in the city this week. Read more →
For the second time in a week, a college campus is getting a lesson on constitutionally protected speech that many find distasteful.
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World Clown Association president Randy Christensen has one thing to say about people using the clown costume to scare the public: “Anybody doing that is not a clown.” Read more →
Anyone who’s ever raised a teenager can tell you a truism: Teenagers can be really stupid. It comes with the territory.
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The Crystal Police Department says on its Facebook page today that it’s not out to shame the driver who wouldn’t get out of the way of an ambulance. Fortunately, NewsCut is under no such constraints. We’ve had our fill of knuckleheads on our roadways. Read more →
Brandon Bakke, a sixth grader, is adopted and he never met his father. But he found out his biological father died in Chicago and is buried in an unmarked grave. Read more →
Last night, in their first exhibition game, the Boston Celtics released and played a video. The players and coaches then locked arms and bowed their heads during the National Anthem. Read more →
Perhaps if someone in Aleppo dressed as a clown, the horrors taking place there could get a little attention. Read more →
KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert, of course, has found another angel walking among us and, as it turns out, he owns a bus company.
He’s Jon Held, who has the bus contract for the Kenyon-Wanamingo School District. Read more →