Bob Collins
Reggie Oeltjen had an ambitious idea for a 65-year-old man. The Stewartville, Minn., man wanted to run across the state — that’s 280 miles in 20 days — for no other reason than he could.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for May 2017
Wisconsin’s Bond brothers — all nine of them — signed up to fight in World War II. They all survived the war, returning to work in factories and on the railroad. And now, they’re all gone. Read more →
Bicycle bells don’t scare anybody into paying attention. You know what does? A big air horn. Read more →
Meredith Erck, the Rapid City, S.D., senior who wanted to walk with her friends at what would have been her commencement had she not been battling cancer, will walk with her friends after all. Read more →
There were less talented people than Rashad McCants who carved out a nice basketball career in the National Basketball Association, but Rashad McCants couldn’t. Read more →
The story of an attempted carjacking in Milwaukee provides us one of those ‘what would I do?’ opportunities that the news cycle occasionally provides. Read more →
Cody NelsonBen Jacobs, a reporter for The Guardian, asked Greg Gianforte a predictable question about the congressional Republican health care bill. In just a few seconds, Jacobs says Gianforte body-slammed him to the ground and yelled at him to “get the hell out of here.” Read more →
There are likely two schools of thought on a South Dakota school’s decision to deny a degree to a senior who is six credits short of graduation. There is the ‘rules are rules’ caucus, and there is the ‘have a heart’ party. Read more →
The Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has had its squabbles with KSTP TV over the years, but the group is standing foursquare with KSTP in the face of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents search for the anonymous leaker of information to the TV station. Read more →
Compromise is a word that sounds great in a philosophical discussion. But in real life, politics is often the art of hurting someone else to get what you want. Read more →
Photographers don’t need words to throw shade. Read more →
Let’s consider the goodness and decency that disappeared from the planet the other night when the bomb exploded at the concert in Manchester. Read more →
Thanks to the creeps among us, these are difficult times for adults who just want to do something for kids. Read more →
The Pipestone Area Schools class of 2017 visited the elementary students today before counting down the final seconds of high school. Read more →
Marty O’Connor’s story is a familiar one. He was left a quadriplegic when he fell down the stairs in 2012. Read more →