Bob CollinsThere’s a reality about the State of Hockey — it can be stuck in the ’60s when it comes to female coaches and the way parents and players react to the notion that women know a thing or two about the game. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2015
For 23 years, the Great American Think-off in New York Mills, Minn., has helped thaw the collective brain of Minnesotans, paralyzed by the mind-numbing winters. Read more →
Things could be worse. We could be without the entertainment value of Lake Superior during the state’s worst cold snaps. Read more →
The world’s most effective Petri dishes — schools — have reopened after the holiday break and that should make the flu season here worse than it already was. Read more →
Jenna Langer Vancura, whom I wrote about in September, died on Saturday. She was just 28. The Woodbury and New Ulm native chronicled her life with cancer on her blog, The Redhead Report, and visited MPR’s Daily Circuit a few times too. She had three bouts with cancer, then announced in September — 11 years Read more →
If there’s one thing the world didn’t need, it’s another reason to doubt the apparent best intentions of others, but thanks to a YouTube filmmaker, that’s what we’ve got. Read more →
Is the price of gasoline really low or does it just feel that way? Read more →
You were doing medical school-level work back in the day when you watched Seinfeld. Read more →
Trust me, kids. You’re going to regret giving up the piano lessons.
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By around this time next month we’ll be knee-deep in pitches for us to buy new cars.
The new vehicles, you may have heard, allow you to read Facebook while you drive, impress your neighbors, and satisfy your need to buy something — anything as dictated by the new definition of a good American. Read more →
Lost in the holiday diversions this week was the death of Paul Sprenger, who died on Monday while vacationing in Curacao.
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After the kind of year that football and NFL had — wife beating and child abuse — the latest controversy around the treatment of women shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Read more →
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who died today shortly after his son was inaugurated into another term into his dad’s former job, may well go down as one of the few politicians unable to parlay a stemwinder political convention’s keynote speech into a subsequent endorsement for president. Read more →