Bob Collins
Is the American Dream dead? Forgetting how to fly. The creeping corruption. Before I did. The urinal sink. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2013
A final tribute to the “hotshots,” is too much information being released about the San Francisco plane crash, Illinois becomes the last state to legalize carrying weapons, a new gig for the man the architect of the same-sex marriage amendment defeat, the Quebec train explosion, and the worst to-do list ever compiled for Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Read more →
The reporter who wrote a perfectly horrible review of the Minneapolis scene is acknowledging that he really didn’t spend enough time in the area to know much about the Minneapolis scene. That was much was certainly obvious in Mark Meadows’ “48 Hours in Minneapolis,” being distributed by Reuters. 10 a.m. – Eat breakfast at the Read more →
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says the same contributing factors that killed motorcyclists last year are killing them this year. Three bikers died on July Fourth alone. In a news release today announcing rider deaths are occurring more frequently than last year, the DPS says motorcyclist’s error and failure to yield the right-of-way are Read more →
A Minnesota man’s world fishing record still stands. Read more →
Living with breaking news immediacy, warts and all. Read more →
The Wrenshall girls basketball team mirrors the experience of so many small towns in Minnesota, where diminishing populations challenge the future of high school sports. Read more →
The art of being bumped, the big telephone disconnect, every killing has a story, the science of Cookie Monster, and what if the planets were as close as the moon? Read more →
An arrest in a bicyclist’s hit-and-run death, an appeal against a Wisconsin law requiring women to undergo ultrasounds before getting an abortion, why the flight attendants in the San Francisco crash are real heroes, and “Hug Me Jesus” replaces “Touchdown Jesus” in Ohio. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current.
Tomorrow marks the start of Ramadan, during which Muslims refrain from eating or drinking any liquids from sunrise to sunset, and focus on their faith. Don’t let that scare you, the Transportation Security Administration is advising in a press release today. Ramadan, a holy month for persons of the Muslim faith, begins this year approximately Read more →
We have a new addition to our growing list of favorite obituaries. Entsminger Scott E. Entsminger, 55, of Mansfield, died Thursday, July 4, 2013 at his residence. Born January 8, 1958 in Columbus, Ohio, he was the son of William and Martha (Kirkendall) Entsminger. He retired from General Motors after 32 years of service. He Read more →
A region stops to honor the dead of Yarnell Hill. Read more →
Republicans are more likely to get the majority of their news from TV. Democrats favor newspapers.
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We welcome the coming riff-raff; our secret is out. The people who care enough not to disappear after covering a story. The next philanthropists? One common hope in Carlton and St. Louis counties, and what will the driverless car do to our cities? Read more →
It’ll be a year before the National Transportation Safety Board releases a full report into what caused the weekend crash of an airliner approaching San Francisco. But there’s not a lot of mystery about the substandard approach, a plane that was allowed to get too slow and “behind the power curve,” the point at which Read more →