Bob CollinsThe battleground for the tribal fighting that’s consuming America is the TV and America’s businesses are increasingly joining the fighting by picking which TV channel they show their waiting customers: Fox, MSNBC, or CNN. Lifetime Fitness wants out of the battle. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2018
Here’s a list of guests and topics you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Around 1955 or so, Warren ‘Bud’ Bushway put up the American flag on a spiffy new pole outside his home in St. Louis Park.
For 59 years, he raised and lowered the flag each day on Cedar Lake Road. Read more →
The first days of January are an inspiring time when new political leaders take their shot at changing the world. In Cincinnati today, Tamaya Dennard took the oath of office for the City Council. Read more →
There is no more helpless feeling in the world than being the parent of an adult child.
We raise them, we let them go. Sometimes they fly and sometimes they crash and die. Our human instinct, however, does not allow us to take such an intellectual approach to the realities of life. They’re our children, after all. Read more →
The last Delta/Northwest 747 jet to fly into Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport to great fanfare last month made its last flight today, a trip from Atlanta to a boneyard in Arizona where it will be stripped and left to become dust in the desert. Read more →
Fact: There is nothing better in a Minnesota winter than an outdoor ice rink. Read more →
Minnesota has a well-deserved reputation for transparent government but it’s not beyond being sneaky and keeping its citizens in the dark when it comes to spending their money for private business. Read more →
We made it three days into the new year before we got our first ‘stupid airline passenger tricks’ entry. Read more →
Here’s a list of topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Fatherhood has changed a lot on recent decades as men take on more of an upbringing role in the home. In the workplace? Not so much, the Boston Globe reports. It says a ‘wave’ of lawsuits has highlighted unequal treatment in the workplace. Fathers can’t get a break when they have to reconcile the needs of their employers with the needs of their children. Read more →
A photo of a billboard purported to be sponsored by a Republican group appears to actually be the work of a Democrat. Read more →
During the recent cold snap, it has been somewhat comforting to believe that although we are uncomfortable, the cold weather will head off a repeat of last summer’s invasion of Japanese beetles.
Alas, it’s a lie. Read more →
Check back in 364 days for a full evaluation of all the predictions for 2018 but — spoiler alert — most of them will be wrong.
Probably included on that list is Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster, an analyst who predicts Amazon will buy Minneapolis-based Target this year.
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Winter hasn’t been much to write home about in Minnesota in the last few years, so it’s comforting to know that our reputation is intact nonetheless. Read more →