News Cut: July 30, 2008 Archive

That burning smell...

Posted at 6:32 AM on July 30, 2008 by Tim Nelson (4 Comments)

I was driving my five-year-old son to school the other day in my truck. The windows were rolled up but something outside had clearly gotten his olfactory attention.

"Oooooooo. What's that smell?" he asked, but in a cruder, five-year-old way that I won't repeat here.

That smell was actually Ben Ransom. On his way to work. It took a little sleuthing to track him and the odor down.

Here's what I found when I caught up with him:

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Thirty-three days and counting

Posted at 4:34 PM on July 30, 2008 by Tim Nelson (0 Comments)

Organizers of the Republican National Convention have been at work inside the Xcel Energy Center for more than a week now. They took News Cut and an assembled media horde for a tour of what they've done with the place.

Here's a quick, 75 second slideshow:

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