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Re: frites & fries — Blind item: Which MN chef kicked a restaurant...

Jason DeRusha — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:54:25 -0000

Great comments, I agree with many of them! I would say that people don't generally read the reviews that are being written - Dara just reviewed Minari and said that the dim sum carts were mostly a fail. Jon is awesome- I wish he wrote more. By my count he did 7 reviews in 2024. It's expensive!! Funding 3+ visits is a massive budget lift.

Influencers are calling things "hidden gems" because tiktok has become a search engine, and people are searching for hidden gems. We barely have any reviewers - it's expensive to do, people don't click on articles, so it just doesn't make sense. We sort of get the coverage we want - if people really wanted critical writing and reviews, they'd read it. They don't.

Re: Long ride ends for Minnesota Lynx

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 08:35:09 -0000

I don't watch sports, I don't watch news, I don't read the paper, but I'm hugely disappointed with the reporting. Come on, John! Women's sports should get more coverage for sure. As of the WNBA: the one-game playoffs, the short seasons (only 34 games), the relatively few numbers of teams in the league (12) along with the undeniable male-focused and male-dominated sports journalism world are factors here.

Re: Changing the world one baseball at a time

Jason DeRusha — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:32:07 -0000

Great job Jana!

Re: Settling old scores on the obituary page

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:34:00 -0000

Easy for me to judge, but it appears their mom got married at 18 or 19 and had an affair with her brother-in-law at 24. Perhaps Mom was awful their whole lives - but wow. Makes me grateful for my super-boring family life.

Re: Some object to Metro Transit ad-clad pink bus

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 21 May 2018 08:48:57 -0000

It's an ad for a medical office and a pharmaceutical. I don't see the issue. Kids see the endless Viagra and Cialis ads during pro-sports broadcasts, so this isn't any more "in your face" than that.

Also the people getting mad are providing the ad even more exposure, so there's that.

Re: St. Paul bar releases the hounds on innocent Woodbury man

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:36:33 -0000

If it were my business, I would share images/surveillance video on Facebook and Instagram, though. But I would not respond to comments. Let people suggest tips and leave it at that.

Re: St. Paul bar releases the hounds on innocent Woodbury man

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:22:51 -0000

It's tricky business, because police departments have essentially said they're not going to investigate these cases. So I don't blame the business owners for trying to shame people and get their stuff back. When you as a business go after an individual and tag their employer - based on a comment in a FB thread - that's dangerous stuff.

Re: They’re killing ‘Circle Me, Bert’

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:21:25 -0000

The Lottery sponsored Circle Me Bert last year... I can see why FSN wants a bit that all of its analysts can do. That said, they did this totally wrong (as broadcast networks often do, I should set up a consulting agency to stop these things). They should have not told Bert that Circle Me Bert is done- they should have said they've removed the Lottery sponsorship so he can hereby circle whoever and however he wants. And then two weeks later announce the addition of this new Lottery thing.

Re: Do we still need the United Way?

Jason DeRusha — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 08:29:21 -0000

We've tried different approaches: and my wife still gives to United Way in her workplace campaign. We used to do $100-$200 to about 10-20 different charities, but we've narrowed in on a couple bigger gifts to a couple charities. I also wonder how many people think that giving to Go Fund Me campaigns is their charitable giving - so people are directly helping friends and neighbors who are sick, or victims of a fire or flood - and with stagnant wages there isn't much left over to donate to nonprofits. It's a real issue.

Re: Sexual harassment firings a ‘reckoning that had to happen’

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:14:25 -0000

Thanks Bob.

Re: Timberwolves take a giant step forward

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:45:47 -0000

And Alan does it without an analyst. He is the best, I totally agree.

Re: NewsCut at 10

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:25:49 -0000

Thank you for all you do here, Bob. NewsCut has been a source of many story ideas for me at WCCO, but better than that it's been a source for a lot of thought and reconsidering of my views or positions on issues. Plus we've met a lot of amazing people along the way.

Re: Goodbye, Columbus

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 08:19:50 -0000

Much like Lincoln and Washington's Birthday has been combined into a President's Day Holiday, I don't see why we don't make Columbus Day into Explorer's Day. Honor the astronauts, Leif Erickson and yes, Columbus too. Honor the spirit of exploration.

Re: Why should we have to pay for credit reporting firm’s blunder?

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:35:18 -0000

From the Equifax FAQ: "To confirm, enrolling in the free credit file monitoring and identity theft protection products that we are offering as part of this cybersecurity incident does not prohibit consumers from taking legal action. We have already removed that language from the Terms of Use on the site www.equifaxsecurity2017.com. The Terms of Use on www.equifax.com do not apply to the TrustedID Premier product being offered to consumers as a result of the cybersecurity incident. Again, to be as clear as possible, we will not apply any arbitration clause or class action waiver against consumers for claims related to the free products offered in response to the cybersecurity incident or for claims related to the cybersecurity incident itself."

Re: Why should we have to pay for credit reporting firm’s blunder?

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:24:30 -0000

1) Yes. https://www.washingtonpost....

2) No. They removed that language after outcry. https://www.equifaxsecurity...

Re: No Pride for area police

Jason DeRusha — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:46:57 -0000

I would think being an openly gay police officer might be a bit of a career risk, at least historically, so the inclusion of uniformed officers and departments in the parade always seemed inspiring to me. They are proud to be who they are, they want to inspire others to know they could be an officer too. Glad to hear the departments will still have a booth and will be reaching out and recruiting inside Loring Park.

Re: After clear-cutting trees, Mac Hammond ordered to restore bluff

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:37:47 -0000

FWIW, Mac Hammond buys a 60 second ad spot on WCCO called "The Winner's Minute," he doesn't have a gig with WCCO.

Re: Former White House photographer trolls Trump hand-holding

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 24 May 2017 11:44:45 -0000

I feel the same way. It's amusing often, but somehow seems beneath a brilliant photographer who was the freakin' WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER. It makes me a little sad.

Re: Minneapolis’ purple lights throws shade on St. Paul

Jason DeRusha — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:22:44 -0000

Saint Paul is a little lame in the LED lighting category, for sure. What could be lit up?

Re: As predicted, Vikings stadium is killing field for birds

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:48:02 -0000

True, which makes it more challenging to compare this to other buildings. Saying it's the most deadly building... well, it's giant. So I guess I'd expect that.

I wish all the parties were just more honest about what's happening: The stadium people didn't like the look of the bird-resistant glass, that's why they don't have it. The cost is nothing relative to the total cost of the building. They could afford it. They didn't want to. Not because they hate birds, because they were going for a certain look.

The bird people always said it was going to be a death trap for birds, and now they've produced evidence of 60 dead birds proving their belief that it is a killing field. Certainly it is having an impact on birds - how profound of an impact is what I'm trying to get a better handle on.

Re: As predicted, Vikings stadium is killing field for birds

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 08:55:34 -0000

Enlighten me, Bob.

Re: As predicted, Vikings stadium is killing field for birds

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 08:42:49 -0000

I guess an average of 3 per day would add up to nearly 1100 dead birds in a year. That would be bad. The argument was that the stadium was worse than a skyscraper, worse than another building because of it's location along the migration route. Any construction anywhere with windows is going to lead to the deaths of some birds. The argument was that this was worse. Is it worse? I don't know. I don't get an answer from what I've read in this story.

Re: As predicted, Vikings stadium is killing field for birds

Jason DeRusha — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 08:33:03 -0000

So 60 dead birds, and an assumption that there are more dead birds = "killing field." ok.

Re: The big lie: Baseball attendance

Jason DeRusha — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:28:25 -0000

It's like movie sales revenue. A meaningless metric - as if we should all care how much money a movie makes. # of tickets sold makes sense for movies. Actual attendance makes sense for a sporting event.

Re: Get your love off my Jumbotron!

Jason DeRusha — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:19:29 -0000

I certainly did not propose on the jumbotron, but I'm pro-love.