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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for February 2016

Sports

Spring break: Chasing hope

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 29, 2016, 7:13 PM Feb 29, 2016
10

For the rest of this week, this is going to be the official NewsCut office. When you’re a fan of a baseball team that hasn’t won a World Series in your lifetime, the window of hope in a given season is pretty short, so I’m heading to Arizona to watch some spring baseball while there’s still hope. Read more →

Arts & Culture

On Craig Windham

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 29, 2016, 2:38 PM Feb 29, 2016
2

Windham, who died last night, was as good a person character-wise as you’ll ever find in a newsroom as evidenced by his work with young people, with whom he led overseas mission trips. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Just moved to Minnesota? Check your auto insurance

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 29, 2016, 10:37 AM Feb 29, 2016
9

A new Minnesota man won’t be able to collect $17,000 in medical payments incurred in a car accident because his out-of-state insurance company isn’t allowed to write insurance in Minnesota. Read more →

Politics

Lands’ End learns marketing and abortion don’t mix

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 29, 2016, 9:31 AM Feb 29, 2016
37

If your company wants to document people who have made a difference in society, it’s better to just to ignore people who made a difference in society because society rarely changes calmly.
Read more →

Politics

Inspecting Trump’s honesty, a comedian leads journalists

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 29, 2016, 7:04 AM Feb 29, 2016
65

If the party leaders are wrong and Trump should win the White House, nine months from now journalists will be writing stories about how they gave him a free pass. Read more →

People doing good

Firefighter pays past-due utility bill for struggling family

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2016, 3:56 PM Feb 26, 2016
3

Given that he was laid off during the Great Recession, it’s unlikely that Ryan McCuen, of the Clinton Township Fire Department in Michigan, has a lot of money to just throw around, even if he did start a lawn service before he was hired back last year. Read more →

The jobs we do

Photos: How a pro pulls a pickup out of a lake

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2016, 1:37 PM Feb 26, 2016
8

Trying to pull your truck out of the ice? Lake Onalaska — the part of the Mississippi River separating La Crosse, Wis., from Dresbach, Minn. — is a lake that makes you work for it. Read more →

Sports

A case for the ‘rolling stop’

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2016, 11:23 AM Feb 26, 2016
28

Nothing stirs up a Friday like an op-ed column suggesting people on bikes get/don’t get a little break from time to time. Read more →

Economy · Health

If you could have dinner with anyone…

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2016, 10:12 AM Feb 26, 2016
15

Here’s today’s moments of bittersweetness, parental-guilt edition. Read more →

‘Security show” getting poor reviews at MSP

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2016, 8:31 AM Feb 26, 2016
16

It’s hard to tell whether the long lines at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport are because of spring break or because authorities have broken something that wasn’t broken as much. Read more →

Politics

MN robocall shows the racist company Donald Trump keeps

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2016, 8:13 AM Feb 26, 2016
123

The robocalls to Minnesota households from the American National Super PAC explicitly state that they’re not sponsored by Donald Trump.

The calls are urging a vote for Trump, joining former KKK grand wizard David Duke embracing the policies that have earned Trump frontrunner status for the GOP nomination. Read more →

Health · Sports

An Olympic figure skater takes a hard fall

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2016, 6:36 AM Feb 26, 2016
8

In the waning days of Black History Month, Debi Thomas should get a little attention for proving, as she did at the 1988 Olympics, that an African American can succeed at figure skating while acing college exams. Read more →

The jobs we do

Radio listeners pause to cheer up an old man

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2016, 4:00 PM Feb 25, 2016
0

We shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves. We shouldn’t be so hard on each other. Read more →

Sports

Baseball takes another crack at speeding up the game

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2016, 2:02 PM Feb 25, 2016
24

After shaving six minutes off the time of a game last year, Major League Baseball is trying more ideas to speed up the game. Read more →

Health · Politics · Regional history

Network’s shutdown is a loss for reporting of Native Americans

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2016, 1:20 PM Feb 25, 2016
8

The decision to shutter Al Jazeera America recently was met with a general shoulder shrug. It was hard to find the channel on cable TV. It was easy to find its website, but not enough people were interested in finding it. Read more →

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