Bob CollinsVincent will close at the end of the year after a 14-year run.
Chef Vincent Francoual says he wants to try something new. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for October 2015
‘Everybody was saying stuff that they didn’t know.’
That right there is the kind of keen insight about social media that only a 12-year-old can deliver. Read more →
The young man — Oscar Wood, 9 — went to yesterday’s deciding American League Divisional Series dressed as his favorite player, Jose Batista. Read more →
There are currently about 10,000 troops in Afghanistan.
How does this compare with other countries where U.S. troops are deployed? Read more →
The City Council last night voted to reconsider the resolution, which it had previously adopted. Read more →
Lincoln Chafee probably isn’t going to become president of the United States and Lincoln Chafee probably knows that. Read more →
The owner of a film production company in Seattle wanted to shame school administrators and politicians after he saw a story that parents at a school were trying to raise $90,000 to save a first-grade teacher’s job. Read more →
The Minnesota Supreme Court today removed a judge from a district court after it found that he had violated the rules that require a judge to live in the district in which he serves. From January to June of last year, he lived outside of Anoka. Filing an affadavit that you know is wrong is Read more →
In suburban Columbus, Ohio, a church ordered a pizza during a service and when the delivery person delivered it, the pastor asked her what was the largest tip she’d ever received.
Told it was $10, he delivered this. Read more →
This probably won’t come as much of a shock to mail carriers, but this is a really lousy time to be a mail carrier, according to a new survey. Read more →
By all accounts, there’ll never be another force on the Iron Range like Veda Ponikvar, of Chisholm, who died yesterday at 96. Read more →
Five years ago today, I wrote a little blog post here about this guy, Gabriel Nderitu, an I.T. worker in Kenya who had a passion to fly an airplane he built himself, using only what he learned on the Internet. For a few days, he became the darling of the Internet. Nobody had the heart Read more →
If white men are really interested in supporting diversity in the public space, the very best thing they can do to achieve it, is sit down and be quiet. Read more →
If you don’t have cable TV, the baseball postseason doesn’t exist. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the arm of the sport that controls its media presence, has locked down online access. Even as it advertises its At Bat app to view the playoff games, it’s blacked out many of the games, presumably to protect the rights of the cable TV networks who have purchased them. Read more →
The Timberwolves and Lynx announced today that the Target Center renovation will be delayed again. Times are too good in the construction business so costs have been going up. Read more →