Bob Collins
Your Wednesday inspiration comes from Man Kaur, a 101-year-old athlete from India, who took home the gold at the World Masters Games in New Zealand this week. She was the only entrant in her age group. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2017
Jett Kobs, a senior at Unity High School in Balsam Lake, Wis., knows his grandmother never went to her senior prom. So young Jett took her dancing. Read more →
ay what you will about Obamacare — and you will — but it was a fine declaration in it that put members of Congress and the federal government under its provisions. If we had to live with it, they had to live with it.
Vox reports today that a new plan to repeal and replace Obamacare will protect members of Congress, their families, and their staffs from being denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. The rest of America? You’re on your own. Read more →
Justin Sullivan, of Getty Images, recently returned to all of the spots he documented during the California drought. His images show that nature is pretty grand, if occasionally unrelenting. Read more →
There’s a cheaper way to look like you’re doing physical work than buying the $425 jeans at Nordstrom with fake mud.
You can actually go out and do some work. Read more →
There’s something about a radio station that connects you, Siegel said of his industry. That something is people like Siegel, with whom we shared the daily triumphs and tragedies.
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We tried to tell you, Chicago Cubs fans. The minute you won a World Series, you ceased to matter. You’re just another sports fan of a big money, winning team. You’re no big deal if you don’t suffer. Read more →
Dick and Donna Mueller, who started the cheese curd craze at the fair decades ago, want to retire and hand the booth over to younger members of the family. The State Fair says ‘no’. Read more →
Thanks to Reddit, this sign from Glendale, Wis., is racing around the Internet, confirmation that a lot of people have a problem with a few parents — the ones who take their kids’ baseball games too seriously. Read more →
A University of Illinois at Chicago economics professor says Minnesota’s sports woes can be traced to high taxes.
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It’s quite a sight once a year when Israelis stop what they’re doing for two minutes. Today is that day. It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more →
Lionel Lopez broke into a Willmar motel room in November 2015 while its occupant — a co-worker — was taking a shower. Lopez swiped a cellphone and a wallet.
Is that burglary?
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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be getting a steady diet of commencement speeches given by bigshots paid tens of thousands of dollars to blather on in the interest of getting the school a little publicity.
Here’s a shorter one that didn’t even need the whole 140 characters. Read more →
Sgt. Sylvia Maurstad must have made some enemies in the Roseau area over the years.
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Because he has Down Syndrome, Alec Penney, of South Fargo, doesn’t get to play much on the Fargo South High School baseball team. He’s never gotten a chance to hit. Read more →