Bob Collins
The day might yet come when we tire of KARE 11 storyteller Boyd Huppert’s tales of the friendship of 90-year-old Erling Kindem and 4-year-old Emmett Rychner.
Let the record show: That day is not today. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2015
A Los Angeles-area high school girls basketball team has been disqualified from a postseason tournament because it wore uniforms to call attention to breast cancer research.
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The most interesting statistic in this year’s concealed carry report: There was not a single case of a gun permitted under the carry law being used for self-defense. Read more →
Professional athletes may make plenty of money, but how much would you take to live without your child? Read more →
A house on Colfax Avenue in Minneapolis that had seen its better days is gone now. The 122-year-old ‘Orth House’ has been demolished despite attempts by some preservationists to save it.
But the Facebook war surrounding it goes on, providing a bit of lesson on how legions can get carried away in social network battles. Read more →
The Forbes list of the world’s richest people leads us to wonder: Is Minnesota ever going to have a billionaire not named MacMillan, Carlson, Hubbard or Taylor? Read more →
An Iowa man has ‘one upped’ the story of the Detroit man who walked 21 miles a day to get to his job.
Steve Simoff’s daily journey is 35 miles along I-35. Read more →
Google set up a zip wire in the Amazon rainforest to capture new 360-degree images of the trees from root to tip.
The results are stunning: A ‘street view’ look inside the jungle.
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The Three Stooges made comedy by poking fun at Hitler. Is ISIS/ISIL off limits?
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Another anti-war group has given up. Read more →