Bob CollinsWhen the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the practice of requiring people suspected of drunk driving to submit to blood testing without a warrant, it left an important question unanswered: What happens to people who were convicted prior to the ruling? Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2015
If you paid attention in science class, you’ve probably already spotted the flaw in the story.
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Can a Minnesota lawmaker be both a legislator and head of a lobbyist organization?
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Nathan Ziegler, the Twin Cities teacher who got plenty of international attention last week for his video of a frozen trampoline, has doubled down. Read more →
Jill and Brian Dejewski have given up life in a two-story home and moved to a trailer park because more than half the people in their community live below the poverty line. Read more →
Republican presidential hopeful Paul Ryan won the public-image campaign at Sunday’s Packers game. Read more →
A twentysomething with no kids, no partner, and few adult obligations lost her mom. Then she had to figure out how to grieve like a grown-up, Washingtonian magazine says. Read more →
Last week’s attacks in Paris have clearly sparked a discussion in newsrooms about the line between the freedom of journalists to say whatever they feel the need to say and the responsibility not to offend or harm, at least not unnecessarily.
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Let he (or she) who can easily sing one of the world’s most unsingable songs, without accompaniment, with a 17 degree wind chill, while millions of people watch you on TV cast, the first stone. Read more →
In his column in the Pioneer Press today, Capitol reporter Bill Salisbury, who’s retiring as a full-time political reporter, echoes a familiar theme over the years since ethics rules were tightened in the ’90s.
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The city has lost two private businesses it intended to help create a destination sports complex.
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There are horrible things going on in the world today, and you can read all about it on the rest of the MPR News site and millions of others. We can’t ignore it.
Real life is ugly.
But sometimes we just have to take a deep breath and remind ourselves that this is real life, too.
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There’s an old saying in sports: if a play is working, just keep running it.
The National Football League ran its stadium play again this month in St. Louis and, just as it has in every other city, it’s working perfectly so far Read more →
Is it a crime to stop moving in St. Paul’s skyways? Read more →
You kids and your newfangled indoor hockey rinks have got it swell, but if it ain’t outdoors, it ain’t hockey. Read more →