Bob Collins
At a red light on Wednesday, Moorhead police officers looked out of a bus and saw not one, not two, not three, but four different drivers taking the opportunity to do a little texting.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2017
It’s hard to imagine a more difficult and stressful job than being a security monitor on the University of Minnesota campus, charged with keeping people from jumping off the Washington Avenue bridge. Read more →
Dick and Donna Mueller started the cheese curd craze with an iconic yellow building on Dan Patch Avenue, but they’re ready to retire. Read more →
Dylan wrote the song in his early 20s while he lived in Wisconsin. He made a mention of Wauwatosa even though there’s no record of his ever visiting there. But it rhymes with ‘toaster’ — sort of — and nothing screams ‘Wisconsin’ like its famous toasters. Read more →
The Star Wars franchise issued its awaited tribute to Carrie Fisher today. Fisher, of course, died in December. Read more →
Someone has been tearing down and burning rainbow flags in the Wisconsin river town. But they’re going back up faster and more plentiful. Read more →
It’s the end of an era on Wisconsin’s license plates.
There are no more six-character combinations left in America’s Dairyland.
The state will go to seven.
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NASA has released what it’s calling the clearest view ever achieved of the earth at night. Read more →
Dr. Anupam Jena, of Harvard Medical School, looked at 11 major U.S. marathons — the Twin Cities Marathon included — and a decade’s worth of heart attacks for Medicare patients. He found that on marathon days, the mortality rate increased by about 15 percent.
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It’s not often that a TV reality show sparks a national conversation on the ethics of ‘outing’ another person, but it’s not often a TV reality show ‘outs’ an individual as CBS’ Survivor did last night when contestant Jeff Varner — a former news anchor — revealed that fellow contestant Zeke Smith is transgender. Read more →
It’s commencement season and now it’s really over, parents. They’re really on their own now. Sure, you cried when they went off to college four years ago, thinking it was really over, but they came home with their laundry every now and again and had some free meals while reminding you that they’re smarter than you are now.
There’s just one thing left for a parent to do. Read more →
Changing a sports team’s logo is a pretty simple task. All it takes is a bucketload of money, as the Minnesota Timberwolves showed last night as part of the team’s plan to wipe away the stench of bad basketball.
Wiping away the stench of racism, however, continues to befuddle the sports world and the people who run the leagues, particularly baseball and football. Read more →
When the Harlem Globetrotters come into a town, where do they head to shoot their promotional video? If you’re ‘Zeus,’ a football stadium, of course. Read more →
There are bigger stories in the world than the death yesterday of David Letterman’s mom. So why are we so sad about someone we didn’t know?
Because we did. Read more →
The Minnesota Twins last season lost 103 games, often played in a half-empty stadium, and made a ton of cash. Read more →