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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for October 2016

Education · Sports

A call for more sportsmanship

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 17, 2016, 6:52 AM Oct 17, 2016
5

The occasional tales of sportsmanship on this blog are, indeed, heartwarming. But it must also be acknowledged that with every yin, there is often a yang.

Tyler Ohmann, of the Morrison County Record, found the yang at the homecoming football game in Royalton earlier this month when Upsala Swanville came calling. Read more →

This or That

St. Paul, 4:53 p.m. – Part 2

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 14, 2016, 4:54 PM Oct 14, 2016
18

Where does everyone go on Friday afternoon? Read more →

Regional history

When the future won’t wait, the people of the past disappear

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 14, 2016, 1:56 PM Oct 14, 2016
12

My hometown’s historic buildings are now a testament to an economy that longer works for people; Minneapolis’ disappearing history is a testament to an economy that does. Read more →

Sports

Baseball playoffs put team’s racist name, mascot in spotlight

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 14, 2016, 10:20 AM Oct 14, 2016
33

Jerry Howarth cannot bring himself to say “the Cleveland Indians.” He finds the team’s name and mascot insulting. Lots of people do. But lots of people aren’t the play-by-play voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, who open the American League Championship Series against the Cleveland Indians. Jerry Howarth is. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Economy

Times are changing for Nobel cash

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 14, 2016, 9:42 AM Oct 14, 2016
0

Bob Dylan probably doesn’t need the money that comes with winning a Nobel Prize and it’s a good thing. Like everything else, it doesn’t stretch as far as it once did, according to CNBC. Read more →

Delta investigating ‘doctoring while black’ allegation

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 14, 2016, 8:45 AM Oct 14, 2016
6

Tamika Cross, a doctor from Houston, could’ve helped a man who needed a doctor on a flight from Detroit to Houston. But she says the flight attendant aboard her flight didn’t believe she’s a doctor. Tamika is a woman. Tamika is African American.
Read more →

Politics

Will McAvoy: Why we need to stand up to each other

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 14, 2016, 7:27 AM Oct 14, 2016
36

The Twitter account under the name of Will McAvoy, the fictitious anchor of a cable TV news network made popular by The Newsroom, offers some grist worth considering on the current political campaign. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Happy dogs at Yosemite ValleySay it with a GIF – a historic, animated one

Will LagerWill Lager October 13, 2016, 5:02 PM Oct 13, 2016
3
Happy dogs at Yosemite Valley

GIFs distilled from the National Archives extensive collections Read more →

Economy

Iron Range board ready to bet on another airplane company

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 13, 2016, 3:27 PM Oct 13, 2016
3

One of the brothers who started Cirrus Design, the aircraft company, years ago is using the template to start another aircraft company in Minnesota. Read more →

Politics

NY Times to Trump: ‘Bring it’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 13, 2016, 2:44 PM Oct 13, 2016
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Donald Trump picked a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel and because of that the New York Times barely concealed its glee today when responding to the demand by Trump’s lawyers for a retraction of yesterday’s story that Trump groped two women. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Why aren’t you stopping for school buses, Minnesota?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 13, 2016, 1:07 PM Oct 13, 2016
22

It really can’t be that people don’t know the rules about stopping for buses, could it? The ‘stop’ sign would seem to be a clue on what driver’s need to do. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Did Dylan deserve a Nobel?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 13, 2016, 10:49 AM Oct 13, 2016
45

Even if you don’t agree with the award, you’ve got to celebrate the fact that in the middle of this cesspool of a political campaign, we’re having a debate about worthy literature.
Read more →

Sports

The $5,000 tip

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 13, 2016, 9:21 AM Oct 13, 2016
5

The Internet search is on for the San Francisco Giants fan who must be somebody, because he was wearing a World Series ring. Oh, and because he left a server in the bar outside Wrigley Field a tip for $5,000.
Read more →

Crime and Justice

La Crosse judge orders cops to disarm when testifying

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 13, 2016, 8:23 AM Oct 13, 2016
6

A county judge in La Crosse has police seething over her order that when they testify in her courtroom, they can’t have their guns nor duty belts with them.
Read more →

This or That

Is this the greatest time to be alive?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 13, 2016, 6:38 AM Oct 13, 2016
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A columnist on Wired paddles against the tide of hand-wringing today, contending that now is the greatest time to be alive. Is it? Read more →

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