Bob Collins
Roger Hanson can return home to Big Lake now after months installing his art sculpture in Superior, Wisconsin.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2015
Up until today, social scientists have conceded that conservatives are generally a happier lot than liberals.
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You don’t often hear funeral services start with a tribute to a news reporter, but, then again, mentally ill homeless people who freeze to death alone don’t often get funerals.
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Regrettably, as is often the case in these instances, the online world couldn’t pause the drivers vs. bicyclists debate long enough to mourn her passing. Read more →
Sometimes you don’t need the whole story to know that everything’s going to be fine. Read more →
One of the hazards of living in Minnesota is you never know whether you’re reading a sincere message or a clever response to critics. Read more →
Roger Hanson spent most of the winter trying to get his ice sculpture built. Now, when he wants it down, it stubbornly refuses. Read more →
It’s a sure bet that Major League Soccer will select Minneapolis for a new franchise, a soccer news website reports.
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Rachel Woell, a former student at Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, and the Totino-Grace football team have been selected as the 2015 Section 5 recipients of the “National High School Spirit of Sport Award” by a national group of state high school leagues. Read more →
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Rejecting a dissenting justice who said the nature of trash has changed, the Minnesota Supreme Court today ruled that you should have no expectation of privacy when putting your trash at the curb, saying the Minnesota Constitution does not provide greater privacy protection of trash than the U.S. Constitution. Read more →
Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard traveled from Sweden to Canada recently to trace the Viking trail from L’Anse aux Meadows, the first European settlement in North America, into the United States. Destination: Alexandria, Minn., the site of the Viking runestone, which may or may not be fake. Read more →
For a brief, shining moment last year, the nation was consumed with the scandal at the Veterans Administration, where veterans were denied medical treatment or had to wait months to get it.
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A Grand Marais farmer is not being held in contempt of court for refusing to allow state inspectors onto his property. Read more →
There’s a good chance a few people are thinking of getting into the small-town general store business today. That seems to be how one gets into the business, at least in Marine on St. Croix, where the ‘heart and soul’ of the town is for sale. Read more →