Bob CollinsThe Moorhead City Council has had a change of heart — sort of — in its opposition to housing for the homeless in the city. This week the Council rescinded its resolution, passed last week, opposing an apartment complex for the previously homeless, the Fargo Forum reports. “We don’t have input necessarily on our destination, Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2014
A Minneapolis man and his two kids were thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday because he tweeted his displeasure that the two kids weren’t allowed to “priority board” with him. “In leaving I said, you know, ‘Real nice way to treat an A-list. I’ll be sure to tweet about Read more →
Bruce MacDonald
A genuine apology offered — rare today in public life — and a glimpse of horror from a lawless place.
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A little warm for you, is it? Here. This will help.
A suburban signpost spreads a little love. Read more →
As you slip on dead mayflies over the next few days, try to remember that it’s indicative of a river’s health. The annual massive mayfly hatch on the Mississippi is finally underway, a little later than usual. Read more →
Chris Kluwe is finished in this town. Don't worry folks, you'll know when I'm on tilt. The Vikings clearly think turning this dirty will scare me off. Says all you need to know. — Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) July 19, 2014 The former Minnesota Viking punter, who became a folk hero during the debate over an Read more →
It might not look like it, but this might well be the greatest example of airmanship in the history of aviation. It was 25 years ago this weekend, that pilot Al Haines put United Flight 232 down in Sioux City, after losing most ability to control the plane earlier in the flight. By all accounts, Read more →
Agnes McKee has got some game. She’s 105 years old and yesterday, with one hand on her walker, she did this in San Diego. Well, of course, she threw a nice pitch. She’d been practicing. Her goal, she says, is to walk again without a walker.
Theoretically, you should be twice as safe on an airplane today now that the tax — I’m sorry, “fee” — for providing security is doubling. Good one. It turns out — you might want to sit down for this — that it’s merely a money grab. Comparatively little of the extra money is going toward Read more →
The Green Line project put stations after the intersection, meaning trains have to stop twice: once for the signal, and once for the station. Read more →
It’s an aviation truism that when a pilot has a bad day and needs to make an emergency landing, it’s best to get right back on the horse. Frank Fierro, 75, had a bad day last week when he landed his single-engine ultralight Challenger plane on a highway on Long Island. It wasn’t a big Read more →
If there can’t be a nightspot honoring Bob Dylan on the Iron Range, can anything survive on the Iron Range? Aaron J. Brown writes on his Minnesota Brown blog today that a crowdstarter campaign has kicked off to reopen Zimmy’s, the Hibbing night spot and restaurant that closed abruptly last spring. In truth, this campaign Read more →
In the aftermath of the downing of a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine yesterday, news organizations were quick to reference Korean Airlines Flight 007, shot down by a then-Soviet Union fighter jet over disputed land in September 1983. Not mentioned quite as often, however, was the time the United States shot down a commercial jetliner. The Read more →
Louise “WeeZee” Miner of Bloomington was legally blind but she said she always could tell what a horse was doing at the Minnesota State Fair horse ring, where she passed out the ribbons. Read more →