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June 19, 2013
Unfit for Print seeks to further the Editorial Board’s thoughts on news with editorial ideas that might not make it in the paper. Also expect random missives on local, national, international or plain odd news.
Tue, 6/7, 9:14pm (2 years ago)
Who’s next? That question, unfortunately, is becoming the only sensible reaction to the seemingly endless procession of political sex scandals.
In the last few years alone, we have Mark “Hiking the Appalachian Trail” Sanford, Larry “Wide Stance” Craig, Eliot “Client Number 9” Spitzer, and Chris “Look at My Upper Body Strength”…
Tue, 4/12, 10:46am (2 years ago)
The 2012 presidential election is becoming a gossip extravaganza thanks to one man’s ridiculous claims. Donald Trump has no business in politics in the first place, but he is taking his quest for attention too far by attempting to discredit President Barack Obama.
Mr. Trump has been dominating the…
Mr. Trump has been dominating the…
Fri, 4/8, 8:20am (2 years ago)
On Thursday, the editorial board threw our support behind a small tax that could go into effect for the host community of a new Vikings stadium.
I'll be honest, I thought we'd get more than a handful of comments (5 at the time this was posted) admonishing us…
I'll be honest, I thought we'd get more than a handful of comments (5 at the time this was posted) admonishing us…
Fri, 4/1, 11:44am (2 years ago)
Two questions: Have we had enough of Rebecca Black's "Friday"? Can you get enough of Rebecca Black's "Friday"? The hit song, for there is no other way to describe it, has been defended by Rolling Stone (among other things), "read" as a radical text and taken down by the Daily's…
Wed, 3/30, 3:06pm (2 years ago)
As you’ve heard by now, there is a small pack of activists holed up in the Social Sciences Building on the West Bank protesting … something. Their list of demands lacks focus and the whole event reeks of the classic college syndrome of protesting for protesting’s sake.
This group is not…
Thu, 3/24, 2:20pm (2 years ago)
Giving is a wonderful thing, especially when it can benefit an entire state that has a $5 billion deficit.
Last week, Minnesota health insurance company UCare cut a $30 million check in an effort to close the projected shortfall. The donation makes up less than one percent of…
Last week, Minnesota health insurance company UCare cut a $30 million check in an effort to close the projected shortfall. The donation makes up less than one percent of…
Wed, 3/23, 4:57pm (2 years ago)
The definition of a pedophile or sex offender is pretty self-explanatory but since people are complex and diverse, opinions differ. Someone who takes naked pictures of kids is most likely going to be labeled as a sex offender. Someone who inappropriately touches a child — also a sex offender. Bob…
Mon, 3/21, 6:07pm (2 years ago)
Ian Byrne here. This is my inaugural Sarah Palin post, and hopefully my last. Aside from watching television and hanging out with Charlie Sheen over break, I read a little news here and there. The best headline I read: Among Independents, Sheen Would Beat Palin in Presidential Race (TIME Magazine). Regardless of my…
Tue, 3/15, 10:51am (2 years ago)
Hello Daily readers, Ashley Bray here. I am writing in response to a letter to the editor “The high cost of University parking” (03/08/11) that was published last week in the Daily. Like many students on campus the author of this letter is clearly frustrated by what she calls “outrageous”…
Thu, 3/10, 1:26am (2 years ago)
Ian Byrne here. If you haven’t heard, the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday evening to strip public workers’ bargaining rights (Star Tribune, NYT, Fox News). Policy stances aside, the way this whole thing went down was bad for everyone.
The battle going on next door has been representative of a larger national…
Sat, 3/5, 1:54am (2 years ago)
Ian Byrne here again. Before you make fun of me for posting after midnight on a Friday night, do know that I’m writing from a hotel room in Decorah, Iowa. Hold off on our beloved football chant for now though. I’m attending the Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Luther College.…
Wed, 3/2, 10:52pm (2 years ago)
Hey everybody. Ian Byrne here. We on the Ops/Ed page have recently been given the option of blogging on Unfit for Print at our leisure. I've decided to start blogging to dethrone "Twin Cities lag on transit spending." It's time for its two and a half month heyday to end.
I…
Tue, 11/23, 12:01pm (3 years ago)
Until the weather went south, a walk around campus made the place look like a paradise of alternative modes of transit. Racks were brimming with bikes, buses abounded, and neon-bright Nice Ride stations dotted the landscape. We wrote about Nice Ride’s successes and the Twin Cities transit landscape in a…
Fri, 11/5, 4:44pm (3 years ago)
There’s not much more to say about Heidi Collins’ painful interview with Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, as Twin Cities media critics roundly condemned it. David Brauer of MinnPost.com and Neil Justin at the Star Tribune, noted, respectfully, that it “fell short of professional standards” and that former CNN anchor…
Fri, 10/15, 1:55pm (3 years ago)
Our October 7 editorial argued the University needs to establish consistent, clear and reasonable rules for cyclists on campus. Since then, letters to the editor and e-mails have been filling up our inboxes, and we thought it'd be useful to publish some of the research that went into the editorial.
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