Bob Collins
If you’re the dean of American bald eagles, your life should conclude more gloriously than by getting hit by a car while you’re dining on a freshly-killed rabbit. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for June 2015
When a 6-year-old boy lost a stuffed animal, Tony D’Aiuto, who runs the operations center at Tampa Airport, did what more of us should: He went to extremes to make the day a little nicer for someone having a bad day. Read more →
The Minnesota Supreme Court today ruled again that life without parole for juveniles is not unconstitutional for those who were convicted before 2012 — when the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Read more →
A kangaroo cannot be a service animal. So ruled the Common Council of Beaver Dam, Wis., this week.
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There was a time, whippersnappers, when we were able to get places on our bikes without a GPS. Sometimes we’d just follow a road in the general direction of where we wanted to go and usually we’d get there.
Unlike where I grew up, this is pretty easy in the Midwest, where the roads run straight north and south and east and west, just as God intended. Read more →
Only a picture of a puppy in need of a home can tug at the heart more than a hand-written note from a kid. Read more →
It’s been almost a decade since someone stole the ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in Wizard of Oz from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids and a search of an iron pit in Itasca County has come up empty. Read more →
Paul TostoSo, with no data whatsoever, we rank the remaining UND nicknames and their worth in Wins Above Replacement.
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We’ve heard worse ideas for dealing with the invasive carp problem than this one. Turning it into a recreational activity. Read more →
Anarchy reigned in Mankato for a short time last week before authorities stepped in to curb the scourge of outdoor dining without enough live plants in the vicinity.
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The New York Times reports the St. Louis Cardinals have hacked into a player-personnel database to get secrets from the Houston Astros, one of the better teams in the American League this year. Read more →
Perhaps you’ve seen these satellite images of North Dakota in which the Bakken Oil Patch is illuminated by all of the gas flares from the wells. They’re misleading, University of North Dakota researchers say. Read more →
For a state that worships its people who made good — especially those who got out of here as soon as they could to make their fortune elsewhere — it could do more to recognize Elizabeth Strohfus of Faribault. Read more →
Unless something changes in the next few weeks, baseball will have an embarrassment on its hands.
If the voting ended today, eight Kansas City Royals will be in the starting lineup. Even Omar Infante, possibly the worst-hitting secondbaseman in all of baseball will start. Read more →
Time seems endless when you consider how long the playoffs have run. Why, I vaguely recall the Minnesota Wild even being in the postseason. Read more →