Bob CollinsIn Prince George’s County, Maryland last week, a young woman with a 1-year-old girl had finally had enough of domestic violence, which far too often is a choice between being beaten and being homeless. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
If art is supposed to generate a reaction and generate discussion, Nick Rindo’s cropseed portrait of Bill Cosby is art. Read more →
Question: Why isn’t there always a crackdown on things that are against the law?
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If spectators are required to show a photo ID to attend a trial in Minnesota courts, does it violate a defendant’s right to a public trial?
Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled it doesn’t while warning judges to be careful with the practice. Read more →
You get up in the morning, you go to work, you’re on the street doing your job , and then people are dead. Just like that.
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Snake River Shooting Products and Consulting Inc., has unveiled ammunition specifically designed to shoot down drones. Read more →
A Minnesota Court of Appeals panel today ruled that surveillance video on Metro Transit buses is public information and ordered them released to a Twin Cities TV station. Read more →
Jacob Miles Solberg, of Erskine, Minn., is probably going to spend more time in prison for raping a co-worker in 2013 because the Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled that being remorseful isn’t enough to get a break on his sentence. Read more →
On June 25, 1996, Daniel Danais got good and drunk, got in his car, and plowed into David Scannell, then 39, as he rode his bike in Quincy, Mass.
Scannell suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him in a coma until last Monday, when he died at age 58.
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It shouldn’t be that easy to hide a restored classic 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass, but at last report there’s still no sign of the car, which was supposed to be raffled off to help the Caledonia, Minn., fire chief.
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If you’re looking for some easy money, be a search firm.
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Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch offers no names in his column today detailing just how common it is for female sportswriters to be sexually harassed by the men they cover.
Some of the players in incidents he details required the willful assistance of officials of the teams for which the athlete played. Read more →
A statement from the University of Minnesota today carries a disturbing piece of information about the actions of the local news media. Read more →
Minnesota may be about to acknowledge, finally, that cameras and microphones in the courtroom do not destroy the legal process. Read more →
I’m not embarrassed by Teague because he brought shame to a university I embrace, or a state I love. I’m embarrassed because I’m a man.
Aren’t you? Read more →