Bob Collins
With the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 11 years came a return to the water for the nation’s TV reporters.
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Archives for September 2016
This week’s StoryCorps segment on NPR’s Morning Edition was a perfect conclusion to the week during which an uplifting moment came when a grown-up sat down with a young boy.
Today’s segment described the uplifting result when a young boy sat down with grown-ups. Read more →
In Weare, New Hampshire (pop. 8,785), townspeople have posted plastic flamingos on their lawns as a symbol of their support and hope for a 12-year-old girl fighting leukemia.
The flamingos are being sold for $10 each to raise money for Abby Van Dyke’s expenses. Thirteen-hundred birds have been sold so far. Read more →
Two items in the news today show the inconsistency we have toward the issue of free speech. Read more →
On Saturday, artists and volunteers at the Weisman Art Museum Collective at the University of Minnesota are going to pick up trash along the Mississippi River. They will create some sort of installation to show how our everyday actions are affecting the river. In one section, someone has beat them to it. Read more →
What do you get the stepfather who has everything? Adoption papers.
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Nobody was hurt when a SpaceX rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral today, so we are officially placing the video in our ‘when disasters are beautiful’ category. Read more →
I have shared my love for Mary Norris, aka “The Comma Queen”, a number of times in this space, and today shall pose no disruption to the proper order of the universe. Her latest video, on location at a beach, encompass all things wonderful about The New Yorker, for whom — or, perhaps, which — Read more →
One of every seven Minnesota drivers has a DWI. A new state reports reveals the demographics of Minnesota DWIs and shows big differences in county conviction rates. Read more →
It was a pretty neat scene in Faribault yesterday when a replica of the Vietnam War memorial wall made its way from Owatonna to the city. Read more →
There’s a reason Minnesota is a transportation backwater and the duct-tape approach filling the vacuum of a failed government is a primary one.
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