Bob CollinsThe video of the police killing of Philando Castile has cemented Facebook’s increasing role as a primary source of news in the country.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2016
Henry Howe, an attorney and owner of spot of land in the city’s downtown, is letting goatsbeard flowers grow because that’s what he likes.
Who’s to say he can’t? The Grand Forks Health Department, which has ordered him to mow the land. Read more →
‘The media is complicit in this morbid voyeurism, when it chooses to be,’ one writer says.
If not for the videos, ‘we wouldn’t be having these conversations at all,’ counters another. Read more →
Ruined food from power outages is a nuisance. A downed tree can still be firewood. But a car in a flood? That’s an awfully expensive paperweight. Read more →
You have to tip your hat to journalist Alex Pearlman, who writes about emerging science and technology. She decided to find out more about the transhumanist movement by having a magnet implanted in her finger, she writes today on WBUR’s Cognoscenti blog. Read more →
Hobby Lobby is an arts and crafts store that caters to a Christian clientele and it makes no apologies for doing so.
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Blame the schedule. Non-division teams only come into Target Field once a season. A day game was scheduled today because the Oakland A’s need to get out of town in time to get to Houston at a reasonable hour to play a game on Thursday. Read more →
A Grand Forks area man isn’t getting a lot of sympathy for his complaint about the trash people left by the side of the road just outside the city limits the other night. That might explain a lot about why people feel empowered to leave their garbage in the ditches. Read more →
There’s a little something for everybody in the Pioneer Press story about the arrest of a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a person at a gas station on Sunday evening. Read more →
The Chilcot Report, Britain’s investigation into the Iraq War, was released this morning, and it’s too big for reporters at The Guardian to go through alone. Read more →
People are already staking out parade viewing spots for a parade that doesn’t start until Friday evening. Read more →
Glenn Burke, who left the airport job in South St. Paul last year when he was appointed manager of Metropolitan Airport Commission’s Crystal and Anoka-Blaine airports, has been charged with seven counts of theft by swindle, according to a press release from Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom. Read more →
In Willmar, Minn., over the weekend, several hundred residents could do the only thing they could to grieve for two Somali boys who drowned last week. They walked. Read more →
Putting flowers on her desk today is about all we can do. We couldn’t offer any support to her during her three-year affair with cancer because she never told us. Read more →
Future alien archaeologists who discover Earth and try to figure out the civilization that once roamed it will have a thankless job.
How can you explain the civilization, based only on the just-completed 24 hours let alone centuries of existence.
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