Bob CollinsThe latest is the widely-reported assertion that Tashfeen Malik talked openly on social media about violent jihad. That’s led to criticism that the U.S. intelligence services failed to pick up even the most public warnings that she and her husband were a threat. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for December 2015
Ouch. How badly do you want to see Adele when she kicks off her tour this summer in St. Paul? On StubHub this morning, asking prices were starting at about $550 and running to $9,000. Each. Read more →
True, in the eyes of the law, Martin Shkreli is still an innocent man.
But still, $750 was the price of our sympathy.
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We pause today to salute ex-Tonka Toys executive Lloyd Laumann, who died recently at 78. He is survived by millions of old men with happy memories of growing up with yellow cranes, trucks and bulldozers. Read more →
If you listen closely, perhaps you can hear the beginning of significant pushback by sports fans against the local sports teams which are making it costlier to buy their product. Read more →
The tension in the early part of the interview today comes from a theme that runs through his tremendous book. That setting your ideals and values aside — or even turning your back on them — is just the way politics is. And, besides, once you’re in office, you can walk things back and apply your ideals and values.
To do otherwise seems simple enough, but that’s also naive.
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Photographer Arthur Nazaryan documents life in this photo essay. Read more →
At St. Cloud State University, the athletic department needs a shot in the arm, so the hockey program will turn to a tried and true method to boost Minnesotans’ interest: beer. Read more →
On its 2,000 mile length, the Mississippi River has only one live theater, at least it did until Grand Rapids fell out of love with the Grand Rapids Showboat. The city is swapping land with the Blandin Paper Company so the showboat lost its lease at Syndicate Park.
But you know how theater people are.
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We might well find out one of these days whether Facebook can force the U.S. to do something it doesn’t want to do: Let a refugee into the country it doesn’t think should be allowed in. Read more →
Paul TostoIt looked like it would be a typical TV news stand-up. But reporter Adam Sallet got way more than that in reporting on a bank robbery in Rochester. Read more →
Eric RinghamIt’s a cultural and political Rorschach test: When you look at the face of the actor Mandy Patinkin, whom do you see? Saul Berenson from “Homeland,” or Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride”? Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been quoting the youthful Montoya on the campaign trail. Now the grown-up Saul has begun to object. Read more →
A German church tries to tie Christmas to “The Force Awakens.” Read more →
It’s a thin line to shaming a victim who, in most cases, is dead.
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These presidential campaigns have a way of working themselves out via the will of the people without the intervention of the St. Paul City Council, which today will vote on a resolution aimed at Trump.
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