Bob CollinsA study by a group of scientists says the sixth great extinction on earth is already underway.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for June 2015
It is odd, yet true, to think that the voice of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, which a white supremacist thought he was silencing by killing him, is now being amplified to a wider audience. Read more →
I was driving home from work last night thinking about the shootings in South Carolina and also one of the most amazing mass murder stories I’ve ever heard.
In 2006, Charles Roberts walked into an Amish schoolhouse and shot 10 girls and killed five of them before killing himself. Read more →
Journalist Adam Ragusea acknowledges a poorly-kept secret: public media journalists — and journalists in general — lean left. Why pretend?
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Brian Williams has given his first interview since being bounced from the NBC anchor desk, leading to a greater question of why does NBC News employ a journalist who acknowledges making things up when most respectable news organizations want nothing to do with journalism’s cardinal sin?
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In Wisconsin, Jack Maier buys billboard space to keep what happened to his wife from happening to other people, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Read more →
Minneapolis author Steve Stratman is roiling the peaceful waters that typically surround the cycling scene in the Twin Cities.
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There aren’t many people left to whom thousands of other people turn to help process that which confounds us. Jon Stewart is the exception and he was at his best last evening on the subject of the killings in Charleston.
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Today, a block away from where nine African Americans were slaughtered in Charleston, S.C., Don Lemon was again the target of complaints that he undercuts African American struggles against racism.
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In the big scheme of things, Kim Kardashian appearing last weekend on ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!’ isn’t a huge deal. The show isn’t journalism, but public radio fans know a groundbreaking descent into garbage when they hear it.
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An NFL official has a surprising recommendation to cut down the number of head and brain injuries in football: Get rid of the equipment that protects players. Read more →
Clementa C. Pinckney, the church leader, provides a fascinating background on the church and its meaning in this video posted online.
Pinckney was one of those killed.
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There was, you may recall, a fair amount of kvetching about the pitchers in the bullpen getting free things they could’ve purchased with the change from their meal money.
Yesterday, the players donated 12 iPads to the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland. Read more →
The next time you hear someone make one of those cheap lazy-government-worker jokes, remind them of the nameless man (so far) at Midway Airport in Chicago who single-handedly saved a couple of hundred lives this week. Read more →
The only real mystery in the South Carolina massacre is why we’re reluctant to call it what it is.
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