Bob CollinsA baseball championship is just a baseball championship. Period. Everything else is just a sportswriter who needs a catchy lede. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for October 2013
Like many people, I’ve been following the stories of people who are losing their health insurance as insurance companies cancel policies because they don’t meet the standards of the new health care law. People insisted they “liked” their old policies. And maybe they did. But it’s time to demand we get a look at those Read more →
Andy Carvin has been offered a buyout from NPR, which is shedding 10 percent of its workforce. Read more →
Why you don’t have a choice whether to submit to drunk driving testing, the hungry people, a bumpy ride for Nice Ride’s supplier, Shave for the Cure in St. Cloud, and how Scandinavian are we really? Read more →
Blind fan Reggie Deal’s efforts to see baseball games in all 30 big league result in a telling video. Read more →
A “fat letter” to trick-or-treaters may be a joke, but the sentiment hits close to reality.
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The Redskins’ owner says the name represents “who we are.” That’s the problem. Read more →
Last of the small-town radio stations, claim: rate shock for health care is good, diversity and the Walker Art Center audience, when winter comes and you’re homeless, and the great Minnesota hunting ammunition shortage of 2013. Read more →
NSA boss says ‘everybody does it,’ Medicare boss issues the apology of the day, another lawsuit alleging priest abuse in the Twin Cities, ground is broken for a new Surly brewery, a reunion of Superstorm Sandy babies, and the death of the woman who never aged. Read more →
If you were around for the assassination of President Kennedy you may find conflicting feelings about the 50th anniversary.
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Apparently, we have a failure to agree on whether college graduates are as ready to go to work as they think they are.
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A couple of Twin Cities Millennials are getting some love on the Forbes website today for their Theater of Public Policy. Read more →
Profits don’t mean jobs, anymore. That’s the reality of the economy in the 21st century.
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Can the rural grocery even be saved or do people want to shop at the big stores? Plus: The endless debate ends, a broken promise on Obamacare, should LGBT renters be a protected class, the need for shopping takes a bite out of Christmas Eve, and a reward for a parent doing the best she can. Read more →
With the Fitzgerald and the Ordway within a stone’s throw, why does Saint Paul want to renovate the Palace Theatre? Mary has the answer. Also: Abortion laws fall, why it’s hard getting affordable health insurance in SE Minnesota, a plane crash in Princeton kills one, and new research says children who grow up in poverty have smaller brains.
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