Bob CollinsThere’s a wide gulf of character in the world of sports.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2016
Truer words were never spoken than the ones from a Transportation Security Administration officer when a man’s daughter underwent a two-minute pat-down because she had a juice box in her carry on.
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Demanding that Sandy Hook parents prove their children were once alive was just too much even for Florida Atlantic University. The school fired instructor James Tracy last night. Read more →
We’re not sure this is the most efficient way to shovel snow, but this video from Montreal (which is pretty good at getting rid of the stuff) nonetheless confirms that many of us in flyover country aren’t approaching the task with the kind of enthusiasm we could. Read more →
The U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down mandatory life sentences for juveniles has reached one of Minnesota’s most heinous crimes — the 2010 killings of three innocent people at Seward Market.
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Roger Hanson, the Big Lake, Minn., man who builds giant ice towers, is having a bit of a time in his second season in Superior, Wisc.
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Few TV documentaries have gripped the nation harder and quicker than Netflix’s “Making a Murderer,” which has raised questions about whether Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man convicted of a 2005 murder of a woman in Manitowoc County, Wisc., was railroaded by prosecutors. Read more →
The new year is looking pretty much like the old year in the Fargo school district where this proposed picture in the school yearbook remains an issue for some people. Read more →
Every year around this time, the Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival gets is underway in China, which causes the rest of us to wonder whether we’re doing winter right. Read more →
This is what it looks like to be rescued from a gondola by a helicopter.
Not shown: the guy who couldn’t put his cell camera down during the rescue.
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It’s likely only coincidence that on the same day, the BBC has aired a visit to an American gun show on the same day President Obama tightens restrictions on gun sales. Read more →
Everyone’s got an opinion of teachers but in North Dakota, only one person who wasn’t already a certified teacher wanted to try being one. One. One who wasn’t qualified.
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If ‘feel what it’s like to get Tased by cops’ is in your 2016 resolutions, you’ve got only a day to wait to respond to the Eagan Police Department’s solicitation for its Citizens Academy. Read more →
The Bartz boys of New Brighton are at it again. Read more →
The social media landscape has given rise to a new art form: the ‘why I quit’ treatise. You’ve probably seen them from time to time. Someone doesn’t want to work somewhere anymore, quits, and then bares all of the faults of the workplace with the innuendo that its time is up. Read more →