Bob Collins
While people come for the hockey in the boys state tournament, they might as well stay for the hair, because it, too, has become a tradition apparently unique to flyover country. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2015
Oh, sports, you can be so good for the soul when you work at it!
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Is there legitimacy to the hurt feelings and online outrage against Mpls.St.Paul magazine, which is under fire for this cover?
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Rather than an art installation, the city got performance art, instead — a rootin’ tootin’ Midwesterner on display who didn’t let the wrath of winter get him down. Read more →
We could learn a lesson from Hindus when it comes to welcoming spring. Read more →
My dad was a salesman. He told groceries to grocery stores and, after an attempt at running his own grocery store failed, he sold insurance.
He was good at it; he was great at it, actually. ‘If you don’t see anybody, you can’t sell anybody,’ he told me in the early days of my own attempt to follow him into the business. Read more →
We interrupt your normal programming for the weekly test of your tear ducts.
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Something good has come of the insipid national debate over whether the dress was blue or gold. Read more →
The Vikings stadium was pitched to taxpayers as a venue for a Major League Soccer franchise. Now, one of the wealthiest people in Minnesota wants his own. Read more →
A kerfuffle in the world of classical music is testing the parameters of artistic freedom. Read more →
We haven’t heard much about the ebola outbreak since the polls closed on Election Day in the United States, but today the last ebola patient left a hospital in Liberia. Read more →
America hates kids. How else to explain the insistence that kids — or anybody else — not slide down Capitol Hill on those rare occasions when it snows in the District of Columbia? Read more →
Had the jet not hit the berm at the end of the runway, it would’ve ended up in Long Island Sound. Read more →
I was greeted by another reminder that the new St. Paul Saints ballpark might be one of the few publicly financed sports projects that actually makes a difference in a city. Read more →
A second-year Girl Scout in Rochester, N.Y., has forced the national organization to respond to her complaints that workers in a Louisville plant where Girl Scout cookies are made are treated ‘terribly.’
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