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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for November 2017

This or That

Solve this photo mystery

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2017, 6:50 PM Nov 30, 2017
2

Here’s a chance to be a hero again, internet. No pressure.

Look at these pictures. Read more →

Covering Keillor

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2017, 5:09 PM Nov 30, 2017

You can be a reporter or you can be an employee. But when the story is within your company, you can’t be both. Read more →

People doing good

Max gets a Tonka Truck

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2017, 10:55 AM Nov 30, 2017
21

This is Max. He’s 25 years old. Mentally, he’s about 5 years old, his sister wrote this week. Read more →

Sports

Going to Canada? Leave the leeches home

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2017, 8:59 AM Nov 30, 2017
11

The Duluth News Tribune reports two men — Russell R. Sikkila Jr. of Chisholm and Carl W. Brandt of Forest Lake — have been fined $800 and $1,500. That’s the penalty for hiding bags of leeches in a worm cooler when they crossed the border at Fort Frances. Read more →

Politics

‘The Nazi next door’ moves out

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2017, 7:46 AM Nov 30, 2017
43

Here’s a temperature check on the state of America: It’s still bad for one’s employment prospects to be a Nazi. Read more →

Politics

Candidate’s issue in race for attorney general: genitals

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2017, 6:56 AM Nov 30, 2017
3

Perhaps a candidate for Michigan attorney general has given us a glimpse of what we’re in for in TV ads during the 2018 campaigns. Read more →

Arts & Culture

MPR gets the Kimmel treatment

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2017, 6:41 AM Nov 30, 2017
36

Sexual harassment isn’t usually a joking matter but late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel gave it a shot last evening, what with the allegations against NBC Today host Matt Lauer and A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor erupting on the same day.
Read more →

What’s on MPR News today? 11/30/17

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2017, 6:01 AM Nov 30, 2017
2

Today’s topics on MPR News’ programming include sexual harassment, DACA, Facebook’s fake accounts, the public option in health care, and Keith Ellison’s take on the future of the Democratic Party. Read more →

Politics

Keillor, sexual harassment and the things Democrats don’t understand

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2017, 12:55 PM Nov 29, 2017
321

Women are tired of this. They’re tired of all of it. And they’re not going to give a break to politicians or their party on the basis of ‘it could always be worse.’” Read more →

This or That

MN’s largest evening newspaper cuts printed paper

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2017, 9:32 AM Nov 29, 2017
20

The Rochester Post Bulletin has announced it will no longer issue a printed Friday edition. It will publish only five days a week. Read more →

Education

When report cards are still a big deal

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2017, 8:04 AM Nov 29, 2017
32

Why do some kids excel in school and others don’t?

A big reason — by no means the only one, of course) is contained in the Pioneer Press’ story about the St. Paul Public Schools sending home report cards with the wrong grades. Read more →

This or That

Sexual harassment firings a ‘reckoning that had to happen’

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2017, 6:43 AM Nov 29, 2017
78

Like their counterparts at CBS This Morning last week, the remaining hosts of NBC’s Today Show this morning tackled the firing of their co-host — in this case Matt Lauer — up front. Read more →

What’s on MPR News today? 11/29/17

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2017, 6:03 AM Nov 29, 2017
0

Here’s your daily list of subjects and guests on MPR News programming today. Read more →

This or That

DNR asks hunters for help to solve Minnesota deer mystery

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 28, 2017, 1:37 PM Nov 28, 2017
2

This buck, a 10-pointer, was shot on Sunday in Lanesboro, Minn. For about a year now, the deer has been seen on trail cameras and people noticed the red tags but didn’t know what they said. Now they do. Read more →

People doing good

In Detroit, a fight for digital justice

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 28, 2017, 1:14 PM Nov 28, 2017
1

Detroit has given its residents every reason to give up. Some people don’t give up. Read more →

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