Bob Collins
The world’s oldest wild bear has died without the benefit of ever having a name.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2013
Social networks can sometimes — more often than we’d like, really — illuminate just how uninformed people are.
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Are you sending your kids to school, how not to get attacked by a wolf, pawn shops are the new banks, the man with no arm meets the girl with no hand, and this one is for the lovers. Read more →
Minnesota native Karen Nyberg took am amazing photo of the Yosemite wildfire from her perch on the International Space Station. Read more →
Sindy Hooper, 50, finished the Ironman Triathlon in British Columbia yesterday, just under the maximum time allowed in the race: 17 hours. She finished in 16 hours and 24 minutes. While undergoing chemo. Read more →
Other than 9/11, I can’t recall a sadder day in the Twin Cities than the one that happened 19 years ago today. Police received a call around 7 a.m. that a man was sleeping in a car in the parking lot of Sacred Heart Church at E. Sixth and Hope Streets. Ron Ryan, a 29-year-old Read more →
Being mentally ill will not get you a break under the mandatory five-year prison term for illegally possessing a firearm. Read more →
Interviewer Dick Gordon is calling it quits as host of American Public Media’s The Story. Read more →
People don’t really love their dogs more than humanity, it’s not the heat; it’s the fire, the FAA grounds journalists, when Hollywood is real, and why are there shoes on power lines? Read more →
Linda Ronstadt has revealed that she can no longer sing a note; she has Parkinson’s. She ushered in a pretty fair era in music in the late ’60s and early’70s, along with James Taylor, Carole King, and the Eagles: folk rock. She was the decade’s highest-paid female singer and it wasn’t because of the high-glitz Read more →
Honored guests surprised MPR’s Cathy Wurzer at the State Fair. Read more →
Not much news but lots of good at the State Fair. Read more →
Paul TostoPaul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association and one of the great American tinkerers, died Thursday. Read more →
The well-heeled neighborhoods of Saint Paul lead in recycling; the working-class neighborhoods are at the bottom of the heap Read more →
Wired.com has noticed that Best Buy’s stock has tripled so far in 2013, suggesting that it’s back from its near-death experience. Read more →