Bob Collins
If you’re a city slicker and you don’t take a drive to farm country, you’re missing quite a show at this time of the year.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for October 2015
Minnesota U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen is getting some online love nationwide today for his joke on Instagram. But his idea seems like the most workable plan at the moment. Read more →
Wisconsin is getting some national shaming today for its refusal to make drunk driving a crime when it’s someone’s first offense. Read more →
What kind of country have we become when we can’t even throw gourds anymore? Read more →
Venus, the moon, Mars, and Jupiter are all together in the early morning sky, something that won’t happen again for years. Read more →
The white-linen, polished silver restaurant that’s been in its Minneapolis location for 10 years, is calling it quits. Is Minnesota’s minimum wage increase to blame? Read more →
How’s the view where you work? A small group of craftsmen climbed recently to the top of St. Michael’s Church in Stillwater. The stunning drone video shows it’s not a job for just anybody.
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I had a craving for potato chips today, but there are no chips in the house.
Fortunately, Amazon started its new home-delivery service in the Twin Cities today. Read more →
Here’s what you missed if you lived in that fancy metro area well south of Duluth. Read more →
It’s an old story that the New York Times has done a masterful job telling this week. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy loses job and balloons to nearly 600 pounds. Boy hears the Proclaimers’ hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” on the radio. Boy decides to bike across America to win girl’s heart back again. Boy gets girl. Maybe. Read more →
The Mills family has confirmed that it’s selling Fleet Farm, the Brainerd-based, rural-focused chain.
It’s economics in 2015. Business is good but in order for it to be better, the family has to sell to deeper pockets. Read more →
Take a ride in a powered parachute around some of the most beautiful country in Minnesota — bluff country. Read more →
You go to a baseball game to see your beloved team in the postseason, and the next thing you know you’re the most hated man in a city and you go into hiding for the next 12 years.
That’s Steve Bartman’s life in one sentence because of what happened in 2003. Read more →
Thomas D. Donnelly, of Geneva, Minn., died on Tuesday. But he was known by a different name — ‘Digger’. He dug graves. He was also Tom Tom the Leprechaun, the mascot of the Minnesota RollerGirls. Read more →
Without question, the highlight of the many years I watched my kids play baseball occurred very early in their youth athletic careers, when a ball hit to shortstop went for an easy single because the shortstop was busy making a sand castle.
Life should always be that sweet. Read more →