Bob CollinsThe state’s highest court has resuscitated the case of a woman who blew the whistle on financial irregularities in Minneapolis Public Schools only to have her job eliminated.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
Lawsuits against Jason McLean, who owns Dinkytown’s Varsity Theater and Loring Pasta Bar, are prompting a social media-fueled boycott of the locations. Read more →
The creeping — and creepy — intrusion of business and government on people’s personal Twitter musings has taken a step forward in Wisconsin where a high school player has been suspended for using profanity in a tweet on her personal account. Read more →
Somebody shot a county commissioner of Meeker County and a local newspaper is running up against a law on data in Minnesota in its effort to find out who.
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A judge in Louisville has reversed himself after Adam Satterly apologized for calling him a ‘punk a– ni—er’ on Monday. Read more →
Truer words were never spoken than the ones from a Transportation Security Administration officer when a man’s daughter underwent a two-minute pat-down because she had a juice box in her carry on.
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Demanding that Sandy Hook parents prove their children were once alive was just too much even for Florida Atlantic University. The school fired instructor James Tracy last night. Read more →
The U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down mandatory life sentences for juveniles has reached one of Minnesota’s most heinous crimes — the 2010 killings of three innocent people at Seward Market.
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Few TV documentaries have gripped the nation harder and quicker than Netflix’s “Making a Murderer,” which has raised questions about whether Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man convicted of a 2005 murder of a woman in Manitowoc County, Wisc., was railroaded by prosecutors. Read more →
It’s likely only coincidence that on the same day, the BBC has aired a visit to an American gun show on the same day President Obama tightens restrictions on gun sales. Read more →
If ‘feel what it’s like to get Tased by cops’ is in your 2016 resolutions, you’ve got only a day to wait to respond to the Eagan Police Department’s solicitation for its Citizens Academy. Read more →
Ten years ago today, Daniel Jay (apparently not his real name) went to a Christmas party, got drunk, then hit the road. Then he hit Emily Pothast’s parents. Her mom died instantly. Her dad bled to death in the hospital.
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If we can defend the right to burn a cross in St. Paul, we can surely defend the right to post a message on Facebook, or to be compelled by the government to post something on Twitter. Read more →
Just a week after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, Billy Glaze died this morning, the Star Tribune reports. He was convicted of a series of murders of American Indian women in Minneapolis in the 1980s. But he may have been an innocent man. Read more →
This is the Christmas card we should all be getting before we go off and do what too many of us around here seem to do.
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