Bob CollinsA Shakopee man has canceled his annual toy drive in a dispute with the city over the ordinance that bans the metal storage container that’s in his driveway. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
The Minnesota Supreme Court struck down the conviction of a man who was supposed to register as a predatory offender when he entered Renville County in 2014. Juanel Anthony Mikulak’s defense? He thought he had a week and didn’t know otherwise. Read more →
If you’re the type that wants everyone else to like you, maybe you shouldn’t serve on a jury. Read more →
If ISIS can find an army of recruits using the power of social media, United Patriots of Minnesota 3% shouldn’t have much trouble, either. There are plenty of people around itching for a civil war.
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If we’re really interested in stopping mass murder, it’s well past time to start talking seriously about whether we take domestic abuse seriously enough.
Find a man who’ll beat up women and children, and you may well find a man capable of killing the defenseless. Read more →
Langendorff and his neighbor will be the poster boys for gun advocates, just as Kelley will be the focus of gun opponents.
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John Krenick, of St. Paul, has lost again, and so, too, has everyone trying to store old cars on their own property in violation of Minnesota law. Read more →
The apologists for sexual harassment were immediately out in force, questioning why NPR should suspend a person for something he did 20 years ago. Even questioning how a man could ‘slip his tongue’ into a woman’s mouth without a little bit of help. Disgusting, anyone? Read more →
Everything portraying the frustration and uselessness in efforts to curb drunk driving in Minnesota was on display in a courtroom in Le Center Monday when Kimberly Stangler got a year in jail for killing a motorcyclist last October.
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In Marshfield, Wis., a 38-year-old man went to the local Kwik Trip shortly before midnight to buy beer but somehow locked himself inside the cooler. He decided to spend the night drinking beer. Read more →
Typically, reporters and news organizations are reluctant to turn over unpublished notes and recordings when the justice system demands they do so.
But in the case surrounding the death of a man in a fight outside a bar in May, the Fargo Forum is making an exception. Read more →
Every now and again, we read a Minnesota Court of Appeals case involving warring parents and their child caught in the middle, and we wonder how it will ever be possible for a child to survive the damage of warring parents. Read more →
The stories being told as part of the #MeToo hashtag have been gut wrenching and should be an embarrassment to any man. Read more →
Where is the line between youthful pranks and criminal behavior?
Let the Jordan, Minn., police department be your guide. Read more →
For over a decade, Janecek and Lee and Diane Rosenthal have been neighbors and not at all friendly ones. Apparently the feud started when Rosenthal was cited by the city for renting out a third apartment in his house in 2011, which was zoned as a duplex. He blamed Janecek for blowing the whistle. Read more →