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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for July 2016

Sports

Hey, Minnesota! David Ortiz still loves you

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 21, 2016, 11:56 AM Jul 21, 2016
9

As he plays his last series against his old team, David Ortiz pens a letter to Minnesota. Read more →

Weather

How to beat the heat? Be more kid-like

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 21, 2016, 8:45 AM Jul 21, 2016
6

Long before we become old Minnesotans complaining about the cold in January and the heat in July, we’re kids who find the weather wondrous. Read more →

Sports

Video: MN United keeper scores … into his own goal

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 21, 2016, 7:58 AM Jul 21, 2016
12

Let he who has not thrown the soccer ball into his own goal cast the first stone! Read more →

Crime and Justice

‘Don’t shoot me,’ Florida man said before he was shot

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 21, 2016, 7:46 AM Jul 21, 2016
55

Charles Kinsey was in the street to retrieve an autistic man who’d wandered away from the center where he lives. Read more →

Sports

In WNBA, $5,000 is the price of social conscience

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 21, 2016, 6:49 AM Jul 21, 2016
36

There seems to be plenty of irony to go around in the WNBA’s decision to fine players $500 and the three teams on which they play $5,000 for wearing unapproved team attire.

The league fined the New York, Indiana, and Phoenix teams for wearing shirts that, technically, didn’t say anything, but were a statement in the wake of police shootings and shootings of police. Read more →

Health

Increase in stress for kids linked to social media

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 21, 2016, 6:33 AM Jul 21, 2016
2

The number of 7-12 year olds experiencing moderate to “serious psychological distress” -— symptoms of depression and anxiety — over the last month has jumped from 24 percent to 34 from 2013 to 2015. Read more →

Politics

Ombudsman: Audio woes hampering NPR/PBS convention collaboration

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 5:32 PM Jul 20, 2016
7

NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen says the radio audience hasn’t been ‘well served’ yet by the partnership between NPR and PBS during coverage of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Read more →

Politics

How Donald Trump picked Mike Pence as his running mate

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 1:28 PM Jul 20, 2016
54

Among the most compelling stories in the tell-all books about presidential campaigns that inevitably follow an election is the behind-the-scenes story of how vice presidential candidates are selected.

This year, we don’t have to wait. The New York Times has the story this afternoon of how Donald Trump settled on Mike Pence of Indiana. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Mahnomen deputy’s killer loses bid at MN Supreme Court

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 11:55 AM Jul 20, 2016
3

Thomas Fairbanks argued that he didn’t actually cause Dewey’s death. He claims the decision of Dewey’s family did. Read more →

Politics

Ryan photo spawns battle of the intern selfies

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 10:08 AM Jul 20, 2016
45

House Speaker Paul Ryan created a typical day in the life of social media the other day when he posted this ‘selfie’ with interns on Capitol Hill. Read more →

Politics

S.D. delegate protests with a timely facepalm

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 8:10 AM Jul 20, 2016
6

It’s been a long time since the roll call of states at any national political convention has been anything but good theater. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Video: Pokemon player hits police car

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 7:49 AM Jul 20, 2016
9

Pro tip: When playing Pokemon Go, don’t drive your car into a police cruiser. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Politics

In Northfield, ‘noise’ is the sound of money

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 7:24 AM Jul 20, 2016
3

One person’s noise is another person’s music and that fact has the politicians and police in Northfield a bit stuck on how residents and bar/restaurants can get along. Read more →

This or That

If it’s National Something Day, Marlo Anderson probably made a buck

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2016, 6:52 AM Jul 20, 2016
10

It’s National Lollipop Day, a piece of trivia that nobody cares about except the occasional TV anchor, a blogger or two, and the lollipop industry that’s probably behind making it National Lollipop Day for some free media advertising.

Who’s responsible for this ongoing daily nonsense? Read more →

NTSB: Pilot in Rochester plane crash likely ‘disoriented’ by fog

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 19, 2016, 3:31 PM Jul 19, 2016
10

It took nearly four years, but the National Transportation Safety Board has now closed its investigation into how four people on the way home from a Packers-Vikings game ended up upside down in an airplane in Rochester. Read more →

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