Bob Collins
Sometimes the rain delay is more entertaining than the baseball game. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2017
It’s never too late to start, of course, but there are nowhere near enough people on the earth whose story makes you wish you were a better person.
John Carlson, who died this week in the explosion at Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis, was clearly one. Read more →
There were many reasons why Target Center in Minneapolis was one of the biggest dumps in the NBA.
The troughs in men’s bathrooms was one. Read more →
From time to time on NewsCut, we have considered the proposition that one cannot pursue one’s passion and also make a living. Pick one or the other when deciding on a career, kids.
But then we see a story like Keanon Kyles’, who makes his living as an opera singer.
Also as a janitor. Read more →
Built in the early ’70s, the Julia Belle Swain was a fixture on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers until its last voyage (under its own power, anyway) in 2008, when it became a victim of the economic meltdown in America.
Its financially strapped owners were allowed to dock it in La Crosse, and there it sat for five years, not getting any healthier
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The Legislature had a chance to increase the odds of people like Laura Elena Soto Silva getting home to her kids. It chose not to. Read more →
We are still a species that will drop what we’re doing and spend whatever money it takes on a skunk, if it needs our help. As long as it doesn’t bite us. Read more →
The next time you get frustrated because weather prevents your flight from leaving on time, think of this video that was made public today. Read more →
The Wall Street Journal reports this afternoon that there are people walking among us who don’t know that a person can get TV “over the air.” Read more →
Humanity has an ethical question it’s going to have to think about now with today’s announcement that scientists in Oregon have successfully edited genes in human embryos to repair a disease-causing mutation that often kills young athletes.
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If you have a friend with whom you can converse by saying nothing, the words will strike a chord. If you don’t, they’ll make you wonder where you went wrong.
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In Fertile, Minn., Ryan Strem has built a baseball field in the shadow of a corn field for the local kids to play ball for free.
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The people of Crow Wing County are bummed, realizing that a once-local corporation isn’t quite as ‘local’ anymore, now that it’s been bought by a conglomerate.
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An all-time catchSome Facebook users reached a new low today — even for Facebook users — when someone thought it was a good idea to post the image of a man in St. Paul who took his own life.
The St. Paul Police Department — and cops see the worst in us every day — was shocked at the callousness toward a man who had lived with mental health issues.
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