Bob Collins
Thirty-five years ago today, Eric Sevareid retired.
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Archives for November 2012
I want to make things all better for four kids in Cold Spring today and, of course, I can’t. I don’t know what to do and I recoil at the notion that there’s nothing any of us can do but cry out and move on.
The message a Michigan school doesn’t want kids to hear, a dad’s dream meets a dad’s reality, the declining tax burden examined, castle laws and dead teens, and the nationwide search for ‘the hat.’
Wait ’til the next next year
The consequences of a bad day at work
Why can’t Norway take a joke?I’ve written in the past about how most economic news seems to revolve around a basic fact that experts got something wrong. They do so with alarming frequency. If the market collapses today, it’s because someone’s earnings didn’t meet expectations. When the unemployment rate is news, is when it is above or below what was Read more →
If states seceded, what Duluth doesn’t get, the kid who puts ‘special’ in special ed, the true cost of our clothing, and a cop, a homeless man, and a new pair of boots.
A moon rock by any other name
It’s time for deep questions and Internet videos
The Little Falls shooting, Duluth goes silent on a racial incident, the fizzling FLEX plan, the Black Friday hall of shame, and ‘not right now, boss, I’m watching the lunar eclipse.’
In Madison, they’re done with Gilda Radner