Bob Collins
Joan Cheever has a non-profit food truck and every Tuesday for about a year, she feeds the homeless near a park in San Antonio.
Last week she got a ticket because it’s against city law. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2015
Every year around this time, journalists — especially ex-newspaper journalists — embrace the survey that shows that theirs is the worst job in America. It’s as good an example of the victim mentality as there is. Read more →
If Paige Lazorenko, 17, of West Fargo, can’t go to her prom, the prom will come to her.
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Yesterday’s gyrocopter flight into the heart of Washington, DC, which illuminated the incompetence of those entrusted to provide air defense over the nation’s capital, has also started a debate in journalism circles around this question: What duty — if any — did a newspaper have to alert authorities? Read more →
When Target Field was built, the Minnesota Twins placed a statue of Calvin Griffith on the plaza. It still doesn’t sit well with some people, the latest of whom is Jack Moore, who writes on Vice Sports that Jackie Robinson day yesterday would have been a good day to tear it down.
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And now let’s pause for a little reminder of why we’re willing to put up with the occasional misery of Minnesota winters.
It’s for Minnesota springs, of course. Read more →
The most outrageous part about the man who landed his gyrocopter undetected on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol today is that the Secret Service knew he was coming, and still didn’t stop him. Douglas Hughes, 61, a mailman by trade, landed his aircraft this afternoon to deliver letters of protest urging campaign finance reform, Read more →
In the aftermath of the great ‘what color is this dress’ debate, the Internet reminded us this week that it is capable of providing viral questions that actually stimulate the brain. Read more →
The latest entry in our collection of public marriage proposals comes from local TV today. Read more →
Jerry Severson of Rochester, who was walking on a bridge crossing the Zumbro River just north of Byron Sunday morning when he saved the lives of two people he didn’t know. Read more →
We like to bike slowly and found fairly quickly that Minneapolis bike paths aren’t for the likes of us. We were scolded for being slow.
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People don’t appreciate the value of local radio until it’s gone. And once gone, it never comes back. Read more →
Some people, it’s safe to say, cheat on their returns. Some choose not to file at all. What should be done to these people? Two researchers say they should be shamed in public. Read more →
For a region that calls itself the “state of hockey,” there’s a remarkable amount of restraint greeting the area’s first legitimate shot at a Stanley Cup. Read more →
Thanks to the rowing team of Washington University in St. Louis, we have quite possibly the most bizarre video yet of Asian carp. Read more →