Bob CollinsOther than Kirby Puckett, it’s hard to recall a figure in Minnesota sports who crashed and burned as hard as Jeff Dubay, the former sportstalk radio star in the Twin Cities. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2017
Cody NelsonAccording to the Southern Poverty Law Center, we have 10 hate groups in Minnesota, including a KKK chapter and neo-Nazis. Read more →
It’s the last remaining concrete arrow in Minnesota, where the landscape was once dotted by them, to help steer air mail pilots to their destination.
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‘It crept in this morning, when I woke up, just thinking about everything that had happened, everything that my family and I had been through,’ Chad Bettis said. ‘I was holding back tears until the start.’ Read more →
Here’s a story you’ll never see covered on TV news: TV news is unfair territory for women. A couple of stories in the news this week provide testimonials to the fact.
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In the aftermath of the racial violence of Charlottesville, the Twitter account, Yes You’re Racist, has invited its audience to dox the families of white supremacists by publishing names. It’s all very wink-wink. It doesn’t instruct people to make life miserable for family members. It doesn’t have to.
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Yoga pants and visible hickeys are specifically banned in a lot of South Dakota schools but students with Confederate flag T-shirts might get away with it. Read more →
There’s a fair chance that more people have seen a 1942 Army documentary in the last 48 hours than saw it in theaters when the government produced and distributed the anti-fascism film. Read more →
Every Monday should start with a SpaceX launch and main booster return to earth.
We do some pretty cool things on this planet and today’s launch and recovery puts SpaceX near the top of the list. Read more →
A good love story can take many forms and, not surprisingly, Boyd Huppert of KARE 11 found a good one for his weekly series last evening. Read more →
The dogs who jump off docks‘Peter is a maniac, who has turned away from all of us and gone down some insane internet rabbit-hole, and turned into a crazy Nazi,’ Peter Tefft’s nephew tells WDAY. Read more →
There is an undeniable attraction between Donald Trump and the racists who flooded the streets and killed a woman in Charlottesville over the weekend. Read more →
Marvin Strombo is 93 now. It’s been 73 years since he took a Japanese flag from a dead soldier on Saipan. On Friday, Marvin landed in Tokyo, the first step to bring the flag home. There are, apparently, a lot of old men still out there having second thoughts about their souvenirs of war.
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A St. Paul woman’s two-month-old Facebook post is inspiring the Washington Post to examine the attitudes of millennials toward racism. Read more →