Bob CollinsThe man who confronted the school shooter in Nevada, a vow to fix the health care website, New Jersey’s governor gives up the anti-same-sex-marriage fight, a Wisconsin judge orders the state to stop enforcing Gov. Walker’s collective bargaining restrictions, Gov. Dayton to have hip surgery, and the two Boy Scout leaders who tipped over an ancient rock formation lose their gigs. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for October 2013
Today’s viral video on the Intertubes is tonic for people who long for more parent involvement in the education of children. Read more →
The latest school shooting barely makes the news. Read more →
Jerabek’s Bakery suddenly closed both of its Saint Paul locations yesterday. Owners Russell Spangler, Ronda Vincent and John Wills broke the news on Facebook. Read more →
The federal government is paying for SWAT vehicles for small-town police departments. Do they really need them? Read more →
President Obama is speaking in the Rose Garden about the problems with the website that allows people to shop for health care under the new health care law. Read more →
The roots of an epidemic, the problem with dead bodies, learning to read at 54, job seekers on stage, and a home for orphan Konny. Read more →
When the baseball playoffs are down to the final few teams, a baseball game is almost as precious as life itself. Read more →
People on a pedestal and the people who put them there, the men who catcall, keeping it wheel, kindness and cancer, and a goodbye to the Beargrease sled dog race. Read more →
Let’s face it. Football fans don’t much care that the constant hitting and brain-smashing action is killing the athletes of the National Football League — a fact that is overwhelmingly proven in Tuesday’s PBS Frontline series, “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis.” So you could probably scroll right past most of the two hours Read more →
NewsCut’s Bob Collins explains his recent writing absence. Read more →
It’s hard to find anything funny about what’s happening in Washington Read more →
Paul Tosto
“Daddy, I don’t want you to play football anymore.” Read more →
Leave it to the “Greatest Generation” to put a visual stamp on leadership. Time is running out for World War II vets to visit their memorial in Washington; they don’t have time for the politicians to grow up, act like adults, and govern the nation in a responsible way. The shut down closed the World Read more →