Bob Collins
We can think of no better way to start a work week than with a video of the launching a porta-potty into the atmosphere. Just because…
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for December 2014
Over the years, I’ve found, I’d get a lot more work done if I don’t drop what I was doing at Fleming Field in South St. Paul and run outside to watch Miss Mitchell taxi by and take off. Read more →
When Anthony ‘Tony’ Mies, died at Assumption Nursing Home in Cold Spring, MN in October 2013, his granddaughter, Regan, was inspired by a blanket his used in his latter days. Read more →
Steve McKee has died, about a year after he was told he had months to live. Read more →
By all accounts, Jerry Kill is far too nice of a guy to say what must be said to the dunderheads in Minnesota who last year declared someone with an illness can’t be a college football coach. Read more →
NPR’s national audience got a chance today to meet Nora Purmort, who has become well known in the Twin Cities now because of her chronicling of her and her husband’s life since his cancer diagnosis.
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Pioneer Press reporter Mike Berardino felt compelled today to explain why he didn’t serve up softballs to Minnesota Twins outfielder Torii Hunter and Hunter’s news conference earlier this week.
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Students talking about a video game caused a school to be locked down out of fear of a shooting. Read more →
Your daily dose of sweetness comes from Aaron Rodgers. Again.
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Today’s Story Corps segment from NPR provides that unusual blend of sweetness and horror.
Horror over the way we treat people we profess to love. Sweetness from the strangers who take our place. Read more →
A lot of cab drivers feel threatened by upstarts like Uber and Lyft, but they’re not helping themselves with the story from WCCO today about a man with disabilities who couldn’t get a ride.
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Kip Hedges was fired after giving an interview to Workday Minnesota in October. Hedges is a baggage handler at the airport.
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The Star Tribune wins today’s Internet with this shot from today’s Minnesota State High School League meeting where it adopted a proposed rule on transgender athletes. Read more →
KSTP owner Stanley Hubbard has fired back at a Twin Cities journalism association over its criticism of the so-called ‘Pointergate’ story the station ran, purporting to show Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges flashing gang signs with a young man during a get-out-the-vote effort in north Minneapolis. Read more →
In San Jose, Calif., today, authorities went ahead with their plan to clear what they say is the largest homeless camp in the United States. Read more →