Paul TostoMy youthful indiscretion with coffee might as well be part of my epitaph. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2013
Nate Minor
Former Kansas City Star sports reporter and SportsInReview.com editor Martin Manley shot himself in front of a police station yesterday morning. He also left a whole website explaining his actions. Read more →
You’ll never see a more detailed and intimate visual report on Chicago’s gun violence problem than in the Tribune’s “Under the Gun” series. Read more →
Bob Collins
Finding fault, more on the NPR ombudsman controversy, Jane takes more steps after the Marathon bombing, the anti-fracking nuns, and those darned hybrids. Read more →
Slate has posted a brutally intimate photo essay of the Ku Klux Klanby photographer Anthony Karen. Read more →
We will not be running with the bulls in Shakopee. Read more →
More than 750 ex-nightclub employees are entitled to damages from their former employers for being forced to make up cash register shortages from their tips, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled. The high court’s ruling reverses the state Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of now-closed party bars Drink and Spin Night Club. Minnesota Read more →
So why don’t you comment… really? Plus: the mystery of the amoeba, the difference between behavior and free speech, death of a Saint Paul neighborhood, and a pitch for Andre at Target Field. Read more →
Kyle Johnson is photographing, with a medium-format camera, every one of the 92 lookout towers in Washington state.
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How’s the pay for people who take care of our aging parents and, eventually, us? The pay is not great — startlingly so. Read more →
(Update: NYTimes.com is chugging back to life, as of about 12:15 CDT. The original post is below.) NYTimes.com is down, as of this writing. It’s the first widespread outage in recent memory. The Grey Lady’s official Twitter handle says it’s an internal issue: We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which Read more →
If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s that you can rarely count on a 15-year-old. The fact may cost Anthony Stokes his life. Read more →
There are only nine left in Glen’s Coffee Clique Last Man Club. Read more →
It’s nice to have someone at least talking about innovation, a typical year on the Minnesota farm, Star Tribune’s warning about those New Jersey businesspeople, why has the number of women in the workplace stalled, and more Minnesota moments. Read more →
Orange is the new “whitey,” the budget deficit keeps shrinking, protection for transgender students, is there a relationship between autism and inducing labor, another singing protest in Madison, and the big lie in New Ulm.
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