Bob Collins
A report from the Minneapolis Bike Coalition says black bicyclists are stopped by police more often than their white counterparts. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
We’re rather eating up the opportunity to hear behind-the-scenes stories afforded by the new book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The book is published by a division of CBS, so CBS News has gotten two days of exclusive interviews out of the deal.
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We get it, housing inspectors have a job to do. And, yes, the structures are not built to the code of St. Paul, but shutting down neighborhood haunted houses still has an ‘are you kidding me?’ ring. Read more →
Tracy Mumford
World Clown Association president Randy Christensen has one thing to say about people using the clown costume to scare the public: “Anybody doing that is not a clown.” Read more →
Anyone who’s ever raised a teenager can tell you a truism: Teenagers can be really stupid. It comes with the territory.
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The Crystal Police Department says on its Facebook page today that it’s not out to shame the driver who wouldn’t get out of the way of an ambulance. Fortunately, NewsCut is under no such constraints. We’ve had our fill of knuckleheads on our roadways. Read more →
We’re not exactly Ground Zero when it comes to clowns but Minnesota is, nonetheless, well represented in the sudden, weird fascination with dressing up as a clown and frightening the landscape merely by being a clown. Read more →
The chances are pretty good that when you stopped in for your coffee this morning, you didn’t get approached by federal agents. Read more →
‘All you need is love,’ John Lennon wrote in his song that people often gather and sing during particularly troubled times.
He was wrong. Read more →
This afternoon, Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek released a study showing half of the inmates at the Hennepin County jail would benefit from or are in need of mental health services. Read more →
In its editorial, the St. Cloud Times is stating what shouldn’t have to be stated: the obvious. It’s not a time to turn on each other in the wake of the weekend stabbing attack at a mall in St. Cloud.
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Hate speech, free speech, or both? Ground zero for this debate is the East Side of St. Paul, where some teenagers burned a cross at the home of a black family in 1990. Read more →
There’s nothing wrong with an FBI agent posing as a journalist for the Associated Press, according to the United States Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General. Read more →
Acknowledging that authorities had little choice but to take the report of gunfire seriously, we are nonetheless forced to accept that we’ve entered a new era of fear in America when bubblewrap causes the lockdown of schools.
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The owner of Hillcrest Terrace sued then Star Tribune reporter Paul McEnroe following his April 2013 story that the facility left a man with developmental disabilities and mental illness ‘alone and sitting in filth.’ The story was based on a not-yet-released Minnesota Department of Health report that was leaked to McEnroe. Read more →