Bob CollinsThe next time someone wants to know what it means to be Minnesotan, you may refer them to this tweet from the West St. Paul Police Department. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for December 2017
Here are the topics and guests scheduled today on MPR News programming. Read more →
Modist Brewing Company in Minneapolis got a cease-and-desist order in the sweetest way from a titan of the brewing industry.
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Bobby Carroll, a janitor at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, is a symbol of America’s working stiffs.
He turns 63 on Christmas Day. He makes $51,000, which doesn’t go far in a city like Boston. If he can hang on for two years, he an retire with a nice pension and health insurance that will help him deal with his mental illness. Read more →
There is no part of American culture where you can escape the civil war of politics.
The latest example is what happened at a Minnesota Orchestra concert on Saturday night. Read more →
There might well have been a time when two employees of a radio station in Forest City, Iowa (just over the border from Albert Lea, Minn.) would’ve thought twice about saying what they said during a basketball game last Tuesday. Read more →
Like NPR before it, WNYC’s news staff didn’t pull punches in its coverage today, suggesting that John Hockenberry was given the option to leave The Takeaway quietly in exchange for keep all the reasons quiet.
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Millennials and veterans: What would it take to get you to move to Wisconsin? Read more →
Sawyer Stevens wants to use the money to go to medical school and become a pediatric neurosurgeon.
Because of his own experience on a bus one afternoon in Cottonwood, Minn., he someday might save some other kid’s life. Read more →
When the tax is up for debate every few years, supporters almost always invoke the family farm. Who would possibly be against the family farm and the poor widow who has to sell because she can’t pay a tax bill?
Who would have to sell the family farm? Almost nobody in the farm state of Iowa, the newspaper reports. Read more →
Here’s a list of topics and guests today on MPR News programming. Read more →
Isn’t this pretty much a metaphor for Detroit?
They tried to blow up the ancient Pontiac Silverdome this morning. They had one job. Read more →
The passing of the generational torch is often uncomfortable, but Garrison Keillor’s rapid exit from the stage when Minnesota Public Radio cut business ties with the man who built the operation is going to leave wounds beyond the allegations leveled against him. Read more →
You probably know how the routine goes if you’ve ever been in the coffee roasting business. You throw the beans in the roaster, get ready to turn on the heat, and remove the Snowy Owl that’s looking back at you from inside the cooling the vent where the bean chaff is collected.
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LeRoy Luitjens and Helmer Haakenson had a bittersweet sip or two as the last two members of Luverne’s Last Man Club opened a ceremonial bottle of bourbon.
Mr. Luitjens died on Sunday. Read more →