Bob CollinsIn the absence of a decent explanation for the firing of University of Minnesota Duluth hockey coach Shannon Miller, the whiff of gender inequity begins to fill the air. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2015
We have two choices as Minnesotans when it comes to winter: We can either surrender and hide under the covers, or embrace it.
The Bartz boys of New Brighton — Austin, Connor, and Trevor — have been making massive snow sculptures in their front yard (2777 16th Street NW) for the last few years and yesterday they completed the latest one, while showing the rest of us that we’re mostly doing winter wrong.
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The GED, the test that substitutes for a high school diploma, isn’t what it used to be, NPR reported this morning. And for many people, that’s the problem. Read more →
A Spring Grove woman has heard the criticism of fruitcake and says if you don’t want it, she’ll take it. She hasn’t gotten a single one. Read more →
Twin Cities have gotten pretty accustomed to seeing their fair metro at the top of national surveys on health, education, bike riding, and quality of life issues.
But the annual Milken Institute survey of best cities is a bucket of cold water.
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Turning out some lights has never been so poignant. Read more →
The tragedy in Larimore, N.D., this week, in which a BNSF train collided with a school bus, has certainly put public safety officials in the state in a tough spot: questioning the account of heroism by the parents of a girl on the bus who was killed. Read more →
If you get your health insurance from your employer, the chances are pretty good that last week your co-pays — the amount you pay just for showing up — went up. So did your out-of-pocket maximum and your deductible. In short, it’s going to cost you a lot more to use your health care.
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Kirby Delauter, the Maryland politician who became a national joke earlier this week when he insisted that a local newspaper not use his name without authorization, has more than redeemed himself. Read more →
Nick Ziegler has provided plenty of videos on YouTube experimenting with ways to take advantage of the cold. He calls it the Minnesota Cold Channel.
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Anoka County–Blaine Airport was selected as one of five airports to host a one-day “convention” of aviation enthusiasts. Read more →
Last month, a Cretin-Derham High School basketball player went to the free-throw line in a game against White Bear Lake High School when someone in the stands made ‘racially motivated noises,’ the Pioneer Press reports. Read more →
Stillwater, Minn., which proudly lives in its past, is going to be a little less ’50s and ’60s to accommodate a lot more ’10s. Read more →
Comedy in the wake of tragedy presents a challenge to comedians. Read more →
A day after the killings of journalists — including many editorial cartoonists — in Paris, many newspapers in the rest of the world are casting off the conventions of the editorial page to speak out. Read more →