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Archives for September 2017

Arts & Culture · War

Review: Truth, agony return in ‘The Vietnam War’

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2017, 6:18 AM Sep 18, 2017
39 Comments

For people like me who grew up hating everything about the Vietnam War, the politicians who gave it to us, the hard hats who insisted ‘America, love it or leave it,’ the opening of Ken Burns long-awaited documentary, The Vietnam War, came out hard. Read more →

Economy

Coming soon: A recession?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 15, 2017, 2:44 PM Sep 15, 2017
26 Comments

It’s always a risk talking about the possibility of a coming recession because they’re such emotional things.
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This or That

Hero cop on Facebook turns out to be anti-Semite

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 15, 2017, 1:32 PM Sep 15, 2017
12 Comments

Your social media history is forever. Read more →

This or That

The NewsCut Facebook Live

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 15, 2017, 12:33 PM Sep 15, 2017
1 Comment

Bob Collins and John Wannamaker of MPR News discuss a few of the posts on NewsCut this week. Read more →

This or That

Will mow White House lawn. Cheap.

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 15, 2017, 10:02 AM Sep 15, 2017
17 Comments

Frank Giaccio, from Falls Church, Va., may be an 11 year old whose lawn-mowing career is peaking.
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Health

MN paramedic’s new life since a helicopter crash

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 15, 2017, 9:05 AM Sep 15, 2017
1 Comment

When last we heard about Miles Weske, the flight paramedic had lost his job with the air ambulance company for whom he was working when the helicopter crashed in Alexandria one year ago Sunday. His goal was to get back in the air. That’s not going to happen. Read more →

Sports

How do you like the Twins now?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 15, 2017, 7:25 AM Sep 15, 2017
37 Comments

We laughed last spring when a baseball statistics prediction program predicted 77 wins for your Minnesota Twins. The front office had done virtually nothing to change the worst team in the American League. Last night, thanks to a walk-off home run by Byron Buxton, the Twins won their 77th game of the season. Read more →

Arts & Culture

St. Paul’s skyway project won’t let us look away from each other

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2017, 3:58 PM Sep 14, 2017
43 Comments

I wasn’t prepared to lose my breath, however, when I made a dash to the Post Office through the skyway this afternoon. I had read in one of the papers that there’d be an installation of stories from people who also had chosen to come here from somewhere else.

But I didn’t expect it would be so downright beautiful. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Terry Gross, briefly

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2017, 2:10 PM Sep 14, 2017
9 Comments

We’re big fans of PBS NewsHour’s ‘Brief But Spectacular’ series, more so today because it provides a nod to a public radio god. Read more →

This or That

Dairy Queen advises customers: Christian music played here

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2017, 10:32 AM Sep 14, 2017
51 Comments

It’s simple, really. If you’re offended by a business playing Christian music, don’t walk through the front door of the Dairy Queen in Kewaskum, Wis.
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Politics

Mondale defends Franken role in blocking judge

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2017, 9:14 AM Sep 14, 2017
16 Comments

Former Vice President Walter Mondale knows the law. He also knows the Senate. And he’s firmly on the side of Sen. Al Franken in opposition to Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras’ appointment to the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Read more →

Sports

Anti-racism sign unfurled at baseball game

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2017, 8:29 AM Sep 14, 2017
50 Comments

Fenway Park in Boston and discussions about race in America seem to go hand in hand, which might well explain why three people — all of them white — unfurled a banner over the park’s fabled ‘Green Monster’ last night. Read more →

Politics

ESPN, Twitter, and the myth of objectivity

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2017, 7:03 AM Sep 14, 2017
60 Comments

Charles Pierce’s Sports Illustrated defense of Jemele Hill, the ESPN anchor who posted on her Twitter account that President Trump is a white supremacist surrounded by white supremacists, is a takedown of the news industry that is about as blistering as it gets. Read more →

Politics

Franken-Stras faceoff leads to silly ad by conservative group

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 13, 2017, 1:48 PM Sep 13, 2017
28 Comments

The judicial showdown between Minnesota Sen. Al Franken and Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras is worthy of a vigorous debate over the role of senators who are responsible for vetting the nomination of candidates to the federal bench.

A conservative interest group chose a silly assessment instead. Read more →

Crime and Justice

How the government seizes your property just because it can

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 13, 2017, 12:25 PM Sep 13, 2017
8 Comments

When you consider the brouhaha that eminent domain — the government taking your land because it can do better with it — created as an issue a few years ago, it’s amazing that civil forfeiture doesn’t cause the outrage it should.
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