Bob Collins
The disappearing first-person history, bull run in Dakota County, when the carnies don’t show, when airline passengers disobey the rules, and sportswriters with short memories. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2013
It’s like old times between Russia and the U.S., why are politicians in Wisconsin so afraid of people who sing, what is H7N9 and why does it have Minnesota health officials concerned, a power outage update from last night’s storm, who’s the person in Mankato stopped for doing 148, and do you have Powerball fatigue? Read more →
Nate Minor
NPR had the story this morning of Amazon.com getting into the fine art selling business: … [San Francisco art gallery manager Danny] Sanchez was eager to partner with Amazon. “They redefined online shopping and I think they have the ability to do that for this new kind of marketplace for art,” he says. The audience Read more →
How the Vikings owner got out of a bad deal, Aaron’s last wish in Fargo, supporting the homeless troops at Fort Snelling, the Titanic violin debate, and quitting jobs to go do what you want to do instead. Read more →
Case “sort of” closed in the killing of Officer Decker, the latest on the Mideast terrorism panic, more proof of climate change, the python incident in Canada, and the man who escaped a falling coffin. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current:
Are comment sections tools for good or evil? Talk it out at the next Policy and a Pint. Read more →
It’s a rough year to be a business owner depending on tourists around Mille Lacs Lake.
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Despite there being no witnesses, no gun, no evidence, and no charges, police authorities and the media covering the killing of Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker last year all but indicted Larson for the killing. Read more →
Selling bikes or gender stereotypes? Read more →
The safety net you don’t know you have, after the attention disappears for ‘heroes’, the cancer game, writing your own obit, and why he can’t quit A-Rod. Read more →
T.D. “Tommy” Mischke, the quirky and well-loved radio host, announced on his WCCO-AM show last night that he’s leaving the station.
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For me, the canoe is staying at home this year and not heading to the Boundary Waters. Read more →
A new nationwide Gallup poll shows that beer and wine are roughly equally popular among drinkers.
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Freelance writer Michele Catalano, writing on Medium.com, relays the story of how six agents from a “joint terrorism task force” showed up at her house. Read more →