Bruce MacDonald
A team of hackers — in the original sense of the term — is restoring those images from tapes that were squirreled away carefully almost fifty years ago. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2014
Paul TostoBaseball players hardly ever get hurt so badly that an ambulance is driven onto the field. But it happened tonight in New Britain, Connecticut, to Byron Buxton, the Twins’ top prospect, the top prospect in all of baseball. Buxton and another outfielder collided tonight going for the same ball. Just before the collision. @RockCats Buxton going Read more →
Bob Collins
August is a vastly underrated month.
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I haven’t posted audio of my daily conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current in months, but I’ve gotten a number of messages this afternoon asking me to do so. The subject, of course, is Robin Williams and it relates to the post I wrote this morning on the subject. I got a nice note Read more →
It’s not been a particularly prideful 24 hours for Republican Party insiders on social networks. Read more →
This is one of those days when a guy playing a piano at an airport in Prague is the faint string of civilization we’re grasping for.
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Cubs fans created the worst “tradition” in the history of baseball — throwing a home run from the other team back onto the field — and a play yesterday highlighted it.
Especially in his frenetic appearances on late-night TV, it was difficult watching Robin Williams. Anyone who has battled depression or had a loved one tortured by it knew that his genius came from a dark place. Read more →
An old train car goes on a high tech mission. Read more →
Few stories have touched people like the friendship story of Erling Kindem, 89, and his 3-year-old neighbor Emmett Rychner of Farmington. Today is the day the two part ways. Read more →
Rick Bacon is the latest to contribute to our growing of list of obituaries the way they should be written. He wrote his own. Read more →
No matter what’s going on in the world, reflected by today’s news stories, there are still first-grade teachers. No one changes the world like a first-grade teacher.
This might be the most fascinating news image we’ve seen in a few weeks. Protesters confronted police in Ferguson, Missouri, where a police officer shot to death an unarmed teen who allegedly had struggled with the officer. Does the dog really help? When the sun went down, however, protesters resorted to what usually happens in Read more →
Fifty-five years is an awfully long time to wait before giving an African-American man the diploma he was denied because he had a picnic in park that was off-limits to blacks. Read more →
Golf has been losing its popularity in recent years. Maybe it’s just too courteous. Read more →