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Trash hauler unloads in deadbeat customer’s driveway

Trash hauler unloads in deadbeat customer’s driveway

What do you do if you're a trash hauler with customers who don't pay their bills? In Red Wing, you give them some trash back.
by Bob Collins

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The price of a free baseball

The price of a free baseball

It is an ill-kept secret that your NewsCut host wants to catch a baseball (foul or fair; doesn’t matter) at a major league game before he expires on the planet. Like this guy almost did in the upper deck at Target Field during the Home Run Derby the other night. Jordan Jacobson stuck out his…
by Bob Collins

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Your own, affordable jet? WI firm ushers in new era

Your own, affordable jet? WI firm ushers in new era

Most of the publicity around small jets for people has focused on Duluth-based Cirrus, which has put a lot of its future in the hands of the VLJ, the very light jet concept. But at nearly $2 million apiece, that’s not an aircraft for typical people. That’s an aircraft for corporations and businesspeople who don’t…
by Bob Collins

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Study: Political reporters are stenographers at debates

A new study analyzing reporting of political debates finds that political journalists are more stenographers than journalists, depending on how you view the word "objectivity."
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Wally’s All-Star moment

It probably didn’t get much notice at last night’s All Star game, except, of course, by the people who were at Target Field. But on Twitter last evening, Eileen Smith posted a pretty poignant moment on the Jumbotron. WWII and Korean War vet on the jumbotron at the #ASG. #mlb #hero @twins usher for 14…
by Bob Collins

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In Moorhead, a fear of ‘those people’

If a homeless person has an apartment, are they still a homeless person? If a person isn’t a homeless person, should a neighborhood still be afraid? These are the questions that aren’t being asked in Moorhead in the unfolding drama surrounding a neighborhood’s attempt to boot out a church-sponsored project to build housing for the…
by Bob Collins

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Evidence the Green Line is a transit success: Soucheray likes it

Who are you and what have you done with Joe Soucheray? The most famous crank in the newspaper business in the Twin Cities and long-time opponent of the Central Corridor light-rail project has seen the light in, perhaps, the biggest turnaround in transit history. In his column in the Pioneer Press today, Soucheray took the…
by Bob Collins

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Iron Range gets a little national exposure, too

Iron Range gets a little national exposure, too

Lost around here in the spotlight on Minneapolis last night was another case of local kids making good when Trampled by Turtles made its second appearance on the Letterman show. Which, of course, led to a short discussion on taconite.
by Bob Collins

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Whales on the runway

Whales on the runway

Don’t you just hate it when your flight is about to land and a whale surfaces on the “runway? (warning: obscenity) It happened late last week in Alaska, of course. (h/t: John Olson)
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