Cody NelsonAnthony Scaramucci went on a violent, profanity-laden rant to a New Yorker writer, which the magazine published online Thursday. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2017
Bob Collins
In the last few days, a number of people in the comments section of NewsCut have suggested that the Boy Scouts should have issued a response to President Trump’s speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree this week.
Today, it did. Read more →
Poor Sherry Tupa, of Champlin, Minn., was only doing what lots of fans of aging rockers do on Sunday: holding an album up from the artist’s best days. Read more →
The woman who was filmed in a tirade against three Somali women in a Fargo parking lot is going to be fired from her accounting job, the Fargo Forum reports. Read more →
Surely on a list of the most interesting people who ever landed in flyover country, Ila Borders must rank pretty high. She was one of the first women on a professional baseball team (women played in the Negro Leagues) when she signed with the St. Paul Saints in ’97.
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Golf’s decline is illustrated this week with word that two urban golf courses are on death’s doorstep. The Minneapolis Parks Board will vote next month on a plan that to close the Hiawatha golf course because of continuing costs of pumping groundwater will likely curtail 18-hole golf at Hiawatha Golf Course. And the Pioneer Press Read more →
Open a Walmart in town, see a spike in crime. That’s the upshot of an analysis by the
Woodbury Bulletin and Rivertown Media, which analyzed police calls in six cities in the east metro and found a disproportionate response to Walmart compared to other stores, such as Target. Read more →
Sadly, there is no shortage of “people are horrible” entrants today, but we’ve settled on whomever was driving a maroon van in rural Princeton, Minn., a week ago, stopping just long enough to steal a saddle from a 4-year-old girl. It was given to her as a birthday present. Read more →
It’s a curious reality of the Minnesota Supreme Court that you don’t often see the ‘Pawlenty wing’ and the ‘Dayton wing’ of the court lined up against each other, but two cases today highlighted a sharp division over sentences handed to drug offenders since a change in the state’s sentencing guidelines. Read more →
A triple play is one of the more rare events in baseball and a triple play in which a run scores must surely be among the most impossible feats.
Last night, however, Todd Frazier of the dastardly New York Yankees accomplished it.
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Woman threatens Somalis in Fargo parking lot
Anna Gibbs has died and if you know any history of the Ojibwe in Minnesota, there’s a fair chance Anna Gibbs had something to do with it.
The Bemidji Pioneer reports she died of liver cancer on Sunday at 72.
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There are 28 girls in Troop 6000. They’re all homeless. It’s the first-ever Girl Scout troop for girls who are homeless, reporter Jacob Pinter reports. Read more →
In a speech on the Senate floor, McCain scolded the process that he just flew back to Washington to uphold. Read more →
The Minnesota Zoo is turning to us in the public for help naming its newest female Amur tiger cub.
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