Bob CollinsWhere is the next generation of pilots coming from? Sometimes, they come from the garage; they’re the little kids building airplanes with a grown-up. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for June 2017
If you’re a veteran and you want the government to honor its committment to provide health care coverage, it helps if you can get your story told on a local TV station. Read more →
If you stuck up a bank and walked away with a few hundred thousand dollars — several times — how long do you think you’d be in prison?
The case of a White Bear Lake man provides an instruction for how to steal money properly: do it with a white collar.
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Parking lot attendants in Fargo are finding out what most cities have already learned. The world doesn’t need parking lot attendants anymore. Read more →
If you’ve watched sports stadium debates over the years, you might recognize the technique. Nothing’s ever dead except for people’s interest in opposing it. Read more →
Peteris Sahurovs, 28, of Latvia has finally appeared in a Minnesota court years after being indicted for a scheme that put ‘scareware’ on people’s computers Read more →
In 2005, the Army recalled Martin Breaker, a reservist, and when he informed BSU that he intended to return in 2008, the state university said his previous positions had been eliminated. It offered him a temporary position at less pay. Read more →
Former University of North Dakota hockey player Carter Rowney won a Stanley Cup last night with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Read more →
Eighteen years ago, Phil Kiltie, a retired teacher in Alexandria, got a nice letter from Scott Lempka, who was once in Kiltie’s fourth-grade class, had grown up and become a teacher himself in Ohio.
Kiltie kept the letter. Teachers, we’re guessing, especially fourth-grade teachers, don’t get a lot of letters from their all-grown-up students. Read more →
School’s out! It’s a time to get inside and play! Read more →
I suppose this image in the Star Tribune’s Metro section today was supposed to show us the sheer force of the wind during yesterday’s storms.
Instead, it makes me wonder what you people were thinking? Read more →
Et tu, Delta?
The airline has become the latest underwriter of New York’s Shakespeare in the Park to pull its sponsorship over a production of Julius Caesar.
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A case of clear-cutting trees along the Mississippi River in Crow Wing County shows that times are still pretty good for ‘Mac’ Hammond, the megachurch owner and preacher of the prosperity gospel. Read more →
It’s been hard for people to dismiss or turn away from Nick Briner’s story, which his mother began telling just before he got out of prison last year and she was weighing what to do. People pull for her. People pull for her son. And that’s just how it should be. Read more →
Never underestimate the power of kids to understand the world better than adults sometimes do. Read more →