Nancy YangProtip: It’s usually not a good idea to brag on social media about how wealthy you are and then mock someone for not being as rich as you. Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, found that out the hard way after being criticized for an Instagram post in which she hashtagged basically Read more →
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Archives for August 2017
Cody NelsonThe lawyer is out of a job now. Read more →
So there’s this total solar eclipse thing happening across the United States today but we don’t care anymore — a dog just casually went grocery shopping over the weekend and we can’t stop watching the video. I'm still shook pic.twitter.com/TPYLRNHDP0 — ashleen🌺 (@ashleenn_) August 20, 2017 This is going to be the real distraction today.
Today’s the day the total solar eclipse distracts America from, well, everything. The better-enjoy-it-now spectacle will cost the United States almost $700 million in lost productivity during the “roughly 20 minutes that outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimates workers will take out of their workday on Monday to stretch their legs, head outside the office and Read more →
Steve Bannon says he will return to the helm of Breitbart now that his tenure in the White House is over. Read more →
Given the recent discussions on removing controversial or offensive statues across the U.S., we wanted to ask what statues people actually like here in Minnesota. Take a look. Read more →
Bob Collins
Maine’s governor says the effort by communities to remove Confederate monuments is like taking down a 9/11 memorial. No it’s not.
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My 45th high school reunion is in October and it seems like a good time to show up, if only to brush up on my small-talk ability to avoid actually saying, ‘man, you got old.’ Read more →
Being a photographer is hard work. Just ask Tony Capobianco, a newspaper photographer, who was out of the line of fire for the ceremonial first pitch at Boston’s Fenway Park last night. Until he wasn’t. Read more →
The aftermath of the terrorism in Charlottesville has presented the greatest challenge to support for the breadth of the concept of free speech in years, and it appears to be softening.
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We interrupt the ongoing horrible news of the day for the NewsCut version of a hit of oxygen: a story about kids and baseball. And a dangerous city. And a man who tries to make a difference in what is probably a lost cause.
Because what other choice do we really have?
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One can hardly blame the airline for decision, reported by the Star Tribune today, to follow the path of the cheap airlines that advertise low fares and then add fees for every ‘frill’ the customer wants. Frills like overhead bin space, and the option to carry on luggage. And leg room. The airline is planning to put more seats in its planes. Read more →
‘This is my country. My flesh has mixed with the soil of this continent for almost 400 years,’ Eric Chandler, of Duluth, writes. ‘My family helped build and defend a form of government that allows us to lurch forward to a better world. One where we are all created equal. That’s my heritage.’
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This picture, from Saturday’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, has started a mini-debate that is as old as journalism itself: When should journalists step in to help the subject of a story or photograph?
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A report by a law firm hired by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents says the university followed its own rules and the law when it suspended 10 football players last year in a Title IX investigation of the sexual assault of a woman.
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