Bob CollinsThis is the part of #pointergate that has been lost in the brouhaha over one incident and one indication of police attitudes toward residents of the city. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
A deer hunter in Northfield isn’t doing much for the image of the sport.
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The Minnesota journalism community has been surprisingly silent on #pointergate, KSTP’s botched police-union-planted story contending that Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges was flashing gang signs during a north Minneapolis get-out-the-vote effort last month. Read more →
Minnesotans spend an inordinate amount of time looking for new ways to belittle our neighbors to the east.
Vox today provides all the jokes you’ll ever need with this map of the most-stolen cars by state. Read more →
Gallup has released a poll today that isn’t surprising at all. Non-whites are less likely to believe that police will protect them from violent crime than whites are. Read more →
As the Minnesota Vikings season headed for the rocks, it seemed a lot of the attitude toward Adrian Peterson shifted too.
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Eric Ringham
Jack Reuler is frustrated to the point of incoherence because he can’t get police or anyone else to listen to him about an abduction he witnessed. Read more →
Today’s must-read comes from the Washington Post where a woman who says she was raped — twice — by Bill Cosby asks important questions that she’s had for 30 years: Why didn’t anyone believe her?
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Add the Star Tribune editorial to the list of journalists who find no redeeming quality in Jay Kolls’ sloppy expose of Mayor Betsy Hodges door-knocking campaign in which she was alleged to have flashed gang signs. Read more →
Last month, Zoe Galasso was shot and killed at a lunch table in the school cafeteria in Marysville, Washington.
Of the people who were shot by her classmate, Jaylen Fryberg, Zoe was the first to die. Fryberg took his own life.
Fryberg’s mother stopped by the Galasso household a few days later. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today settled — for now — the ongoing role of school boards when it comes to campaigning for passage of levy referenda. Read more →
The snowstorm couldn’t have come at a better time for KSTP in the aftermath of its ill-fated decision last Thursday to run a police-union-inspired story claiming Mayor Betsy Hodges was flashing gang signs with Navell Gordon, a young man with whom she was participating in a get-out-the-vote door-knocking effort.
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AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been arrested in New Zealand and charged with attempting to hire a hit man.
The Washington Post gets right to the main issue: What does this mean for the band? Read more →
Public safety officials can probably cancel the PR campaign against texting and driving and concentrate instead on making drivers pay a stiff price for doing it, if a survey out today is any indication. Read more →
Arnold Abbott might go to jail for making sure the hungry and homeless have something to eat in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Read more →