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James Robertson, 56, works at a factory in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He takes a bus part of the way from Detroit and then commutes daily by foot.
Twenty-one miles.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for February 2015
There’s really nothing that music can’t do, as today’s inspiring video from the New York Times proves. Again.
Why can’t it get a little respect from a civilized society?
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Given the opportunity, there are so many things Minnesota would like to say to Brian Fitch Sr., words that would probably mirror the ones he hurled at a judge last evening as the verdict was read in his trial, where he was accused of killing Mendota Heights police officer Scott Patrick. Read more →
Tucked away inside this CBS story on Brookings, South Dakota’s Daktronics company yesterday — they make the video scoreboards at sports arenas, including the Xcel Energy Center and Target Field — was a fascinating nugget about how times have changed when it comes to creating a business Read more →
Over the summer, North Carolina TV news anchor Larry Stogner was among the thousands of people who took the ‘ice bucket challenge’ to call attention to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Then he was diagnosed with ALS. Read more →
The province owns the land that the The Wilderness Discovery Resort leases and wants to sell it for market value, which the resort owners can’t afford. Read more →
Up until today, no Minnesota court has ever ruled that copyrighted websites are property subject to being seized and sold to satisfy court awards.
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Curiously, the Star Tribune’s use of the word ‘blasphemy’ has sparked its own debate on whether it is. Read more →
Jimmy didn’t see his shadow, which isn’t surprising since Jimmy looked for it before the sun was up far enough to cast shadows this morning. Read more →
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who’s over in Europe burnishing his foreign policy credentials, just injected the vaccine issue into his likely 2016 presidential campaign. Read more →
No matter what kind of day you have at work today, at least it’s not going to be as bad as the one the Seattle Seahawks had in last night’s Super Bowl, when they elected to pass the ball for the win rather than just give it to automatic-touchdown running back Marshawn Lynch. Read more →
If you had to line up all the possessions of your life, put price tags on them, and then watch people come pick through them, could you? Read more →