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Did they check if Regis was available?
Presidential debates prompted a couple of NewsToons. First this one on the viewer's perspective. My desk neighbor thinks the debates could be livened up with a tag team format. But maybe a game show...
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Losing it
For every winner in next Tuesday's election, there will be a loser. And for every loser, there's that final act of humility, the concession speech. It's an impromptu, emotional, revealing moment when...
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A simple yes or no will suffice.
Confused by those ballot initiatives? Wish there was a "Yes, if," or a "No, but," or maybe a "Maybe" option? This will make things crystal clear: [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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Social media is hell.
The rise of online social media has proven to be a headache for a lot of authoritarian regimes. News that the Pope will be tweeting has proven especially vexing for one tech-phobic Luddite. [iframe...
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Happy Holiday Formerly Known as Thanksgiving
Over the river and through the woods to the mega mall we go. Retailers like Target are continuing to find ways to extend the Christmas shopping season. Black Friday now starts on Thursday. But...
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Happy Mayan New Year!
Still part of the 99 percent despite that ginormous half a billion dollar lottery jackpot? Don't worry. It's not like it's the end of the world. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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The Gift of the Magi, Revisited
It's not the thought that counts, it's the gift. At least according to this recent story in the Wall Street Journal. But we hope that this retelling of a classic short story is an exception. [iframe...
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Downton Abbey goes off the Fiscal Cliff
NewsToons offers this sneak preview of the third season of the smash PBS hit in which the denizens of Downton Abbey grapple with the government financial crisis. Yeah, there's a stalemate here too. But...
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Eve of Destruction
Everyone from business management consultants to cookbook publishers to the U.S. Geological Survey have sent us news releases recently with a tie-in to that pesky Mayan calendar. Which prompted...
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From St. Paul With Love
The Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt kicks off this weekend with the first clue being published online and in the paper on Sunday, Jan. 20. Which led NewsToons to wonder what would happen if the legendary...
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What the heck is NewsToons?
Click on the headline above and then hit play to find out what this new blog is about. [iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SqBfMnzAke8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen]...
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The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday…
[iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ObecoYJre98" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen] Strangely, we didn't win one. But maybe that's because there isn't a category for best...
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We don’t know about art…
...but understanding modern sculpture is hard enough without vandalizing it with cryptic graffiti as we reported here. [iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eeMbyTx475I"...
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HAL, why did you take the byline off my story?
Resistance apparently is futile. According to a Wired Magazine story a robot will win a Pulitzer in five years. But NewsToons are created by a humans. At least so far. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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Worst case scenario?
Just in case a Vikings stadium deal can't be worked out, maybe it might be a good idea to prepare ourselves on what to do if the team leaves the state. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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Not all twins are created equal.
That's what occurred to us when we thought about St. Paul's efforts to get a piece of the stadium pie. For your consideration, a cartoon with references to Jacob and Esau and Elvis. [iframe width="560"...
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Things are tough all over
Even on the moon, the three most important things about real estate are location, location, location. [iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A9wyiiq-tYU" frameborder="0"...
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There’s no place like home.
A cartoon that features Orson Welles, William Tell and a former presidential candidate named Michele. [iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FtRMz1nVbNo" frameborder="0"...
View ArticleWill it be Crashed Ice Flugtag?
Minneapolis officials plan to announce on Wednesday, May 23, a major event in 2014 that they say will involve the most out of town visitors since the Republican National Convention in 2008. We hope...
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
It's not you, it's us, the Minnesota zoo says to its dolphins. Saying goodbye is often awkward. But it helps if you have some lemon herring cupcakes to snack on. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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The patron saint of couch potatoes?
Submitted for your consideration: A tribute to Eugene Polley. Thanks to him, the channel surf's always up. [iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GfwPpNepRM8"...
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Do mosquitoes spread the zombie virus?
It's mosquito season again. Apparently it also might be zombie season as we've reported here and here. Which prompted this discussion. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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How hot will it be?
There's nothing that Minnesotans seem to like talking about more than the weather. But as Andy Rathbun recently reported here, we might have to learn some new vocabulary. If Minnesota is getting hotter...
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If a J-school student can do it, so can you…
For your consideration, a NewsToons submission all the way from LA from Graham Clark Stecklein, who is @hello_thankyou on Twitter, a journalism student at USC, and a son of Minnesota. His animation...
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Fair Food Fight
You can read HERE about the new foods that will be offered this summer at the Minnesota State Fair. Or you can watch this quiz show and see if you can guess which are the real State Fair foods and...
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Happy Fourth of July
Pursue a little happiness today by watching this NewsToon and consider making one yourself. It's easy. Ask us how at rchin@pioneerpress.com. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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A Story is Born
Where we take a visit to the sausage factory we call the newsroom and give a Schoolhouse Rock treatment to the birth of a newspaper story. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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To Boldly Go…
The St. Paul Pioneer Press has recently put the TCRover on the road, a customized, blinged-out, four-wheeled, social reporting tool. What the Wienermobile is to hot dogs, the TCRover will be to news....
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To Serve Man.
You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of corn dogs and midway rides, but of giant pigs and butter sculptures. A wondrous land whose boundaries are that of Snelling and Como...
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“It’s a cookbook!”
In order to be an official selection for the TC Rover State Fair Film Festival, I had to cut down the original version of "To Serve Man," according to John Brewer, the Rover commander. So now you have...
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Law & Order: SPU
New York City's recently approved ban on supersized soft drinks in eating establishments? Yeah, there's a "Law & Order" spinoff for that. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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Lincoln reacts to…
In honor of President's Day and the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 24, NewsToons looks at what happens if our 16th president's Oscar picks don't pan out the way he hoped. We call it...
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The Near Miss Is Near
Nuke tests by rogue states, near misses with meteors and asteroids, something apocalyptic called sequestration. It makes NewsToons wonder if someone is out to get us. [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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My Martian Marriage Mission
The tycoon who is proposing to send a married couple on a 501-day trip to Mars said he'll be selling media rights to the space mission. We sense a reality TV show in the making. But NewsToons thinks...
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Two Thumbs Down
After a long day of nuclear saber rattling, what better way for a supreme leader to relax than to catch a few flicks with a fellow rogue state leader? [iframe width="560" height="315"...
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The boys of extended winter
If it doesn't warm up soon, we'll need to rewrite the lyrics of baseball's theme song. Just follow the bouncing ball. [iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0t8m2P6eTLY"...
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Feeling chionophilic or chionophobic today?
Chionophile and chionophobe are terms used by scientists to describe animal or plant species as, respectively, snow-loving or snow-hating. Who you are today probably depends on what part of the...
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Code Name: PRISM
News that the spies at the National Security Agency have a secret program code-named PRISM to mine data from the major Internet companies has NewsToons wondering what kind of memes are popular with...
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