Bob Collins
It’s county fair season in Minnesota, the time of year when some counties try so hard to keep something going that might’ve seen its best day.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2013
Chanhassen ranks high on Money magazine’s Best Places to Live list. Why? Read more →
Kids who make a difference, when an NPR journalist destroys NPR journalism, what go wrong with Ticketmaster’s entrance into the scalping market, watching the lights go out with Alzheimer’s, and the Islamic center proposal in St. Cloud. Read more →
The war in Vietnam only ended this week for Ho Van Thanh. Read more →
Obama says “there’s nothing more to see here” when it comes to domestic surveillance, there’ll be no Olympics boycott, a break — sort of — for people with high-interest student loans, no charges against racist Minneapolis police officers, who needs a $38,000 handbag, and the kid in Sartell who could teach a few things to the people who do. Read more →
The campaigns to get people to stop watching their cellphones while they drive often seem like shoveling sand against the tide; nothing seems to be working to convince people there’s danger in it. So AT&T, Verizon, Spring, and T-Mobile commissioned Werner Herzog, the German filmmaker, to produce a documentary, featuring four tragedies: A paralyzed young Read more →
A close encounter with a police license plate scanner. Read more →
Raise your hand if you’ve ever read a software license, credit card, or bank “agreement.” I didn’t think so. Read more →
39 years ago today, a president quit Read more →
The questions surrounding the Wilfs, it’s time for journalists to change how they tell stories, the brew farm, rapping scientists, the people who don’t give up, and not all heartless crooks are heartless. Read more →
Two soldiers who were shot testify in the Fort Hood trial, the Wilfs say don’t worry about that civil racketeering thing, meet the Powerball winner, the flooding in the midsection, the last King Family survivor dies, and the fungus of northern Michigan.
Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current. Read more →
Municipal courses looked great in the 1990s. Now, not so much. Read more →
Anoka is trending this afternoon on Twitter after a Ham Lake man won a piece of the Powerball jackpot. Apparently, plenty of people on Twitter are happy for Paul White, because it gave them a chance to dump on an entire county. The winning MN Power Ball ticket was sold in Anoka County. A Frank Read more →
There’s a reality in debates over public financing of sports stadiums that rarely gets acknowledged: You never really stop paying for them. Read more →
Wisconsin government declares, “Disperse ye Singers!” Read more →