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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for September 2014
That it’s news when a couple of prominent politicians play nice says a lot about the state of politics. Read more →
It’s been a little more than 70 years Major Don Beerbower, an ace pilot, was shot down and died in Saint-Thierry. But today, the town will dedicate a monument to the 22-year-old from Hill City, MN., who might’ve had a big career in buttermaking (he was studying it in Iowa State) had the war not broken out when it did. Read more →
Driving out of downtown Saint Paul last evening, I was particularly struck by the number of people who ignored the ‘don’t walk’ signal and strutted into the crosswalk, defying the cars to hit them. It’s been going on for years, of course. Read more →
If we ever needed a reminder about the value of a newspaper, we need only look at the reporting in the last few week of Brandon Stahl of the Star Tribune, who uncovered a combination of apparent incompetence and faulty legislation in the state’s child abuse reporting system that left Eric Dean, 4, dead. Read more →
Vivian Boyack, 91, and Alice Dubes, 90, got married on Saturday. Read more →
First, we acknowledge that (a) playing the lottery is a good way to throw your money away and (b) publicizing winners helps keep people ignoring “a”. That said, who among us hasn’t thought of what we’d do with the sudden addition of millions into the bank account? Today, Rhonda Meath, 51, told reporters that she Read more →
A 12-year old girl is isolated from her classmates because she’s a piano prodigy. Read more →
Today’s story also appears to illuminate the extent to which some of the nation’s top sportswriters have covered for the NFL. Read more →
In an ad in the competing Star Tribune, the Minnesota Newspaper & Communications Guild said Digital First is seeking an ‘exit strategy’ from the newspaper business. Read more →
A member of the U.S. Air Force was denied re-enlistment last month because he crossed out the words ‘so help me God’ on his papers.
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Buildings would be knocked over from Earl Street on the East side to Dale Street on the west, according to this calculator that’s worth wasting work time playing with today.
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Just a few months after a racist rant forced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling out of the National Basketball Association, another NBA owner is voluntarily selling his team after an allegedly racist email surfaced. Read more →
Derek Jeter answers a reporter’s cellphone during his news conference. Read more →
For more than a year, Dave and Amy Freeman, of Grand Marais, have been planning a canoe trip to Washington as a way to call attention to — and protest — plans for copper mining in northeast Minnesota which they say threatens the wilderness.
Yesterday, they left.
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