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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for March 2014

The jobs we do

For paternity leave, two weeks isn’t enough

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 1:46 PM Mar 25, 2014
11

Writer Theodore Ross got his first crack at parenting the same way most fathers do these days: During a two-week parental leave. His wife, using maternal leave, got 90 days.
Writing on Al Jazeera today, Ross says fathers deserve the same opportunity to bond with their children that mothers get and America’s workplaces should extend paid leave. Read more →

People doing good

Girl who shaved head in support of friend with cancer allowed to return to class

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 12:37 PM Mar 25, 2014
3

A school in Grand Junction, Colorado has determined that a little common sense still has a role in educating kids. Read more →

Sports

Twins’ Pelfrey punked by Gardenhire

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 12:18 PM Mar 25, 2014
1

Judging by the reports from Fort Meyers, the Minnesota Twins better get their laughs in while things are still funny. Read more →

Politics

MNsure reaches health coverage enrollment goal, sort of

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 10:58 AM Mar 25, 2014
2

While MNsure says it has exceeded its goals, it’s still far short of its original goals. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Crime and Justice

Barkhad Abdi dogged by past

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 8:43 AM Mar 25, 2014
2

Barkhad Abdi, the Minneapolis resident who played the pivotal role in Captain Phillips, has some explaining to do with Customs officials. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Busby the Buck is on the lam

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 8:25 AM Mar 25, 2014
0

Bemidji can’t have nice things, apparently. Busby Big Buck has been stolen, the Bemidji Pioneer reports. Busby is the fairly iconic deer sculpture that graces the entrance to the Bemidji Woolen Mills. Bill Batchelder, the owner of the firm, says the theft of the life-sized statue probably happened overnight on Thursday. Batchelder said the nearly Read more →

Sports

FiveThirtyEight: Ricky Rubio is as good as Kevin Love

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 7:47 AM Mar 25, 2014
5

Steals may be a bigger part of the game that is generally believed, a FiveThirtyEight statistician says. If true, it means Ricky Rubio is as elite as Kevin Love. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Video: Base-jumping the Freedom Tower

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 7:23 AM Mar 25, 2014
0

That’s some rock-solid security they’ve got at the new World Trade Center in New York. A group of base jumpers successfully got into the new skyscraper and jumped off it. One of the jumpers, James Brady, is a former ironworker on the building. It actually happened last September but police were unable to figure out Read more →

Death of an aviator

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 7:09 AM Mar 25, 2014
0

One of the great mysteries (for now) of aviation is how a talented pilot who can do this, flies into the side of a mountain while merely piloting a plane to another destination. Read more →

Weather

The ice-breakers arrive in Duluth

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2014, 6:49 AM Mar 25, 2014
0

Three Coast Guard ice breakers arrived in Duluth yesterday, sailing under the Aerial Lift Bridge in the closest sign of spring that we get around here anymore. Read more →

Weather

Video: Crashes on the Mendota Bridge

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 24, 2014, 4:44 PM Mar 24, 2014
5

Joe Mueller was in the right spot at a bad time today when a series of collisions closed the westbound lanes of the Mendota Bridge during a snowstorm. He was able to film the crashes that involved an estimated 60 vehicles. Read more →

Sports

NPR ombudsman: Time to stop using ‘Redskins’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 24, 2014, 4:10 PM Mar 24, 2014
2

Some years ago, the Star Tribune sports department decided to stop using team nicknames that people might find offensive. Out were the ‘Indians’ and ‘Redskins,’ for example, and in was ‘the team from Cleveland’ or the ‘team from Washington.’

It lasted for about a season and then the policy quietly disappeared.

Should NPR consider following suit? Read more →

Sports

At tournament time, little respect for women athletes

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 24, 2014, 2:30 PM Mar 24, 2014
5

With college tournaments well underway, we’ve reached the usual point in the winter sports season where people point out the obvious: Women’s sports aren’t getting anywhere near the attention of the men. Read more →

Daniel Alvarez reflects on his MN to Key West (and back) kayak trip

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 24, 2014, 10:56 AM Mar 24, 2014
1

With a little time to reflect on his journey, he’s been featured in this just-released TEDx talk at Florida State. Read more →

School newspaper publishes rape story, principal tightens editorial control

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 24, 2014, 10:39 AM Mar 24, 2014
1

At Fond du Lac (Wis.) High School last month, student journalist Tanvi Kumar’s article about the student body’s casual attitude toward rape included three victims of sexual assault at the school, a visit to an an abuse treatment center, and included evidence which she said showed the blame-the-victim culture. Read more →

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