Bob Collins
It apparently will be quite a trial when a lawsuit against Madeline Island officials goes to court — if it ever does.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for May 2015
Admittedly, if I weren’t a New England Patriots fan, I’d be pretty giddy about the NFL’s sudden interest in the integrity of the league, which you’ve probably heard resulted in a big penalty against the team today for domestic assault child abuse performance enhancing drugs removing air from a football. But I understand why the Read more →
It’s called bubble soccer and it’s just like real soccer except there’s no goalies, there’s a fair amount of scoring, and players play inside bubbles. Oh, and people don’t take it so seriously. Read more →
The reality is it’s not OK to show people online you’re not OK. The missing discussion is how are we to change that fact? Read more →
Just as baseball is making a comeback in Minnesota, we’ve got another op-ed today mourning its decline.
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There’s some pushback against the video of an otter in Fargo destroying an iPhone encased in an OtterBox protective case.
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Journalist Seymour Hersch is leveling charges that the American story of the killing of Osama bin Laden is full of lies. Read more →
Nothing says ‘America’ like a trash truck in the morning. Read more →
International Space Station astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti came through for us in a big way today, snapping a photograph of the Twin Cities, while tweeting a shout out to its suburbs — well, one suburb anyway. Read more →
You have to have thick skin and some real guts to be a newspaper editor in a smaller community. Jaci Smith, the managing editor of the Faribault Daily News, has both. Read more →
There was quite a display of the night-and-day difference between Wisconsin and Minnesota up north today. Read more →
British elections illuminated a big problem with polls in the first place: People vote based on them. Read more →
Just in time for Mother’s Day, writer Chad Prevost is doing his part for dads. Prevost is a stay-at-home dad who, like many fathers, didn’t notice how poorly fathers are portrayed in pop culture until he became one. Read more →
The Defense Department pays NFL teams to honor service members on game day. The Vikings have pulled in more than $600,000. How patriotic is that? Read more →
NPR has latched onto the biggest Minnesota controversy of the legislative session so far — eye contact.
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