Bob CollinsThere were 70 members when the St. Peter Last Man’s Club was formed, setting aside a 1973 bottle of bourbon to be opened when there were only two left.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2017
Speed limits in construction zones are some of the most universally ignored laws in Minnesota. Read more →
Isabella Nicola Cabrera wants to play the violin. That’s difficult when you’re born with no left hand and a severely deformed forearm. A music teacher at her school had tried to build her a jury-rigged prosthetic, but it was never going to allow her to do what a violinist really needs to do.
So it’s a good thing that the first project idea that a group of students at George Mason University needed in order to graduate failed.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about out of fuel and pretty soon, the space agency will lose its ability to maneuver it. It’ll crash into Saturn. But before that happens, it took a last look at a barely visible dot between Saturn’s rings. Read more →
It’s not enough to want to volunteer to represent Minnesota as a volunteer during Super Bowl Week. You’ll have to surrender some dignity first. Read more →
Tereasa Payne was supposed to play her piccolo in the orchestra for “The Lion King” on Broadway last night. Instead she flew to Sioux Falls, S.D., because her old band director is retiring. Read more →
Rarely has the lack of whimsy and personality in the Capital City been more obvious than last evening’s display of Prince’s purple Read more →
Shannon Miller, who is openly gay, said her dismissal was discrimination at the the university was wrong to characterize it as a financial decision. But in court documents, the university says portraying the termination as financially motivated was Miller’s idea. Read more →
There’s another indication that the world of sports is getting over its fear of a hijab. Read more →
The Washington Post reports today that, on average, we can get an 8 minute warning of a coming tornado; that’s seven minutes less than 2011. The National Weather Service’s performance goal is at least 13 minutes.
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Raymond Haerry returned home last weekend. He was one of the last survivors of the sinking of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. Read more →
If you believe that time is so relative that it is whatever we think it is, you can perhaps identify with John Doe, the unnamed person who wants to change his birthdate to April 10, 1976.
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This photo from the New York Times raced around social media yesterday. Why? Because it told a story people wanted to believe and we’re long past the day when news consumers questioned what they want to believe. Read more →
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness:
Kolt Kyler, 9, of Pierceton, Indiana, is apparently a pretty big Chicago Cubs fan and also a pretty good worker on the family farm. Read more →
In 2013, David Riggs was on his scooter near his Oakdale home when he was struck and killed by a driver on Helmo Avenue who was his sending his third text in a little over three blocks. Like many families, Peggy and Craig Riggs have gone public with their grief, hoping to reach people who Read more →