Bob Collins
Five men, all over 60 years are biking to raise money for wounded soldiers. Read more →
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Archives for July 2013
One statute’s stood the test of time in Minnesota: You can’t sell booze to a minor. Period. Read more →
MPR this weeks digs into the state’s mental health system. Read more →
When Mary had to drop her passion, for the love of baseball, a new bike for Shaina, from the mean streets of New York Mills, and with this ring I thee reclaim two lives. Read more →
You had to figure after Seth Collins reached Milwaukee in his quest to leave a big tip for an unsuspecting server that Minnesota was next. Last week, I told you about Collins, who is traveling the country in honor of his brother, who died and left a suggestion for his family that they make someone’s Read more →
The gardening season of 2013 is going to go down as the one in which people sunk to the lowest level possible. It has become common this year to take flowers, trees, and potted plants from other people who did all the work. Can chaining up flower pots and bushes be far away? The latest Read more →
Helen Thomas died this morning. She was no friend of a lot of sitting presidents; she asked tough questions. President Bush refused to call on her for that reason. She once went three years without being able to ask a question.
“Older” woman walks into a drum shop and shows the kids how it’s done. Who is she? Read more →
Nothing brings out the good like a bad break. Shaina Briscoe, a volunteer at The Current, a grant administrator for the McKnight Foundation, and a pretty well-known person in the Minneapolis bike community, was badly hurt last Saturday when she collided with a car while racing in downtown Minneapolis. She’s been in a coma at Read more →
Word reached me through the usual channels last week that the first journalism teacher I ever had — Anne Masse — passed away. Until it did, I didn’t know that much about her, really, other than she was the one who encouraged me that this journalism thing could work out. In 1971, she sent me Read more →
Think you’re smart on the news? Take the quiz! Read more →
Lessons from summer camp, another side of Tsarnaev, the people who make ‘play ball’ possible, together again in Duluth, and Cheerios’ new ad. Read more →
The suit to stop the unionization of Minnesota home day-care operators, the unemployment rate drops in Minnesota, how those little memory slips might suggest Alzheimer’s, a man who wanted to testify against Whitey Bulger turns up dead, and the 76-year-old Milwaukee man who doesn’t feel “that bad” about killing a 13-year-old. Here’s today’s news conversation Read more →
Haven’t heard Officer Javier Pagan’s story of the Boston Marathon bombing? You should. Read more →
The British Open began today in Scotland. It’s a time to honor the worst game ever invented.
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