Bob CollinsThe only thing missing from an otherwise perfect day in Minnesota was another story from the official police chief of NewsCut, Kenyon’s Lee Sjolander.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2016
Some Packers fans might be gloating a bit much about the season-ending injury to Vikings QB Teddy Bridgewater. Read more →
The football player is Travis Rudolph, a wide receiver. The kid is Bo Paske, a young man who probably reminds you of the kids you might’ve mistreated or ignored when you were his age. Read more →
In 2014, Mary Cocchiarella gave Donald Driggs $2,400 for the first-month’s rent and security deposit for an apartment in Spring Lake Park. But he told her he still had some work to do on the apartment and she wouldn’t be able to move in for another day. Another day — and many days after that — came and went and still she couldn’t move in.
Is she covered by a Minnesota law offering protections for ‘residential tenants’? Read more →
There’s not a lot of great news in the fifth annual Oxford University Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism survey. The most favored sources of news for people are the media least likely to provide in-depth information and, in many cases, serious news.
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In Milwaukee, the kids at St. Coletta Day School got to go on a field trip on the first day of the school year. They went to court to see a classmate get adopted by her foster mother. Read more →
You must have to be a patient and forgiving sort to live near Roseau, on Minnesota’s northern border. People there have to put up with things we non-border people take for granted. The freedom to move around America, for example.
It took an around-the-country trip by a California teacher to tell me something about my adopted state that I didn’t know. There’s an airport in Minnesota on which a runway spans two countries, surrounded by some unwelcoming feds. Read more →
Everything is ready to go for another school year at Spring Lake Park High School.
The desks are arranged, the flag is up, and the note that tells authorities the condition of students in the classroom if there’s a lockdown is in a handy spot. Read more →
Cato Berntsen Larsen, 20, did what any friend would do when his pal dropped his phone in the outhouse. He jumped in to get it. Read more →
Chris Ford and Nicole Wismer, of Nashville, were to be married in November. But then he got the word from his doctor that he’ll probably be dead by then. He has cancer. Read more →
A third of the untested rape kits in Minnesota remain untested because the victim didn’t want to pursue a case. After reading the story of a New Hampshire rape victim, can we blame them? Read more →
We can’t help but think we’re in for a world of hurt in the Red River Valley and environs next spring when the snow melts.
With so much rain this summer, the water table is high and runoff will be the order of the day if we get a decent amount of snowfall this winter. And that usually spells massive flooding on the glacial lake bed.
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Oh, it’s on now between Donald Trump and NPR.
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Minneapolis Community Education wasn’t lying on the front cover of its fall adult enrichment classes brochure; it definitely offered something ‘different.’ Read more →
There are times when it seems as though the world is in flames. These are the times when we must remember that humankind occasionally stops to cheer on people who show up for the World Bog Snorkeling Championships held in the Waen Rhydd peat bog in Llanwrtyd Wells over the weekend. Read more →