Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
‘We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside. He took a hammer to the windshield,’ Michael Rich, a pediatrician and director of the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital. Read more →
Dolly Bauer, formerly of Durand, Wis., has dementia now and lives at a memory care facility in Eau Claire. Music and dance brings her back from the fog of Alzheimer’s. Read more →
Sometimes you get up in the morning and think there’s no hope in the world.
Today is not one of those days. Read more →
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Officer Joshua Bradley, a rookie on the Austin, Minn., police department couldn’t resist a challenge last week when he saw Taige Iverson, who runs 100 meter hurdles, practicing with her high school teammates.
Bradley did OK for an old guy of 21. Read more →
For obvious reasons, journalists get a lot more worked up about changes in the Associated Press Stylebook — the defacto writing guide for newspeople — than normal people, but occasionally a change signals a cultural or ethical shift in a buttoned-down profession. Read more →
The Boston Globe says vets are seeing more cases of people giving their dogs marijuana to treat what ails them. Read more →
Since 2001, Alice Jahnke has made 55 afghans, 831 caps and 405 bonnets for people who are undergoing radiation at Alomere Health in Alexandria, Minn. Read more →
Todd Palmer, an athletic director at Brown High School in Sturgis, S.D., was pretty excited that his daughter would be playing in the NCAA Sweet 16 basketball tournament for the South Dakota Jackrabbits in Portland, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader says. Just one problem: he couldn’t go. Read more →
It was pretty tough finding news and information on TV monitors at La Crosse Airport on Thursday, what with the monitors showing pornographic video and all, according to reports. Read more →
The ACLU had threatened a lawsuit against the Kenosha Unified School District after some parents and cheerleaders objected to the award and the New York Times wrote about. The coach circumvented the outrage, however, by announcing that parents would be excluded from the next team banquet.
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People cannot possibly still be oblivious to the carnage from driving distracted, yet people still drive while texting. For decades, authorities have warned drivers not to try to go through standing water, and people keep driving through standing water and become the poster children for additional warnings not to do it.
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Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
If we stopped referring to people who ride bicycles as ‘cyclists,’ would people who drive cars stop being jerks to them?
Let Australia be our guide. Read more →
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