Bob CollinsAt national and local conventions, you never heard his name uttered; he rarely appeared in person to schmooze with the powerbrokers of the DFL.
I often wondered why he was in the DFL at all. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for November 2016
For the record, NewsCut has smashed traffic records for the year so far and the last two months have been the most popular months in the history of the thing. But, we’re also aware that blogs aren’t the “bright shiny object” that so hypnotizes the experts.
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One of the most impressive aspects of this collaboration between high school coaches to allow a young man to get the thrill of scoring a touchdown in a football game yesterday is that the game was early and close when he did it. Read more →
We were only a few hours into Black Friday today when the first of the ‘brawling shoppers’ videos hit Twitter.
It’s become an annual tradition, too: Fighting over the goods.
We should stop watching them, writer Luke O’Neil writes. Read more →
Minnesota Vikings fans awoke today with a fresh reminder that nobody wins the Super Bowl in week five.
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Either Lee Johnson is lying about his decision to wear an Obama costume with a noose around its neck or he’s clueless about the history of racism in America. Read more →
A Rochester area woman is planning to do her part to ease hunger in her area by borrowing the idea of Little Free Libraries and using it for food instead.
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Eventually, every tradition has to die and when President Obama pardoned a turkey at Thanksgiving today, one did.
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Vi Hart, like most other homo sapiens, has a theory about the election, which she features in her latest video. We are divided in the United States, of course, but it’s mostly by age, the Internet math star calculates. Read more →
He sells firewood by the side of the road — $5 a bundle. He’s been doing it since last year and when he first started, his wife, Helen, was alongside him.
This is how he pays his wife’s medical bills, his daughter says. Read more →
It’s like old times in Thief River Falls where a dispute over a mark on a ballot recalls the statewide recount in the Minnesota Senate race years ago. Read more →
Next to the Super Bowl, this is the time of the year when some pretty fair advertising brains churn out some videos worth watching for the holidays. So far this year, we’ve found five that fit the bill. Read more →
The Russian/Ukranian freighter landed during a snowstorm in Duluth yesterday afternoon for refueling after being diverted from its original Winnipeg destination. It had departed earlier in the day from San Bernadino.
It left Duluth before sunrise this morning.
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Amaiya Zafar, 16, a devout Muslim from Oakdale, Minn., was disqualified before she had a chance to fight for the championship at the Sugar Bert Boxing National Championships in Kissimmee, Fla., the Washington Post reports.
She wears a hijab underneath her protective headgear when she boxes and rules are rules.
And sportsmanship is sportsmanship as Aliyah Charbonier proved to the rulemakers.
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