Bob Collins
Tim Hortons — the Canadian coffee shop — is now the face of the debate over a higher minimum wage now that the children of the founder have taken Ontario’s increase in the minimum wage out on employees. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2018
John Bond, a soldier in the Minnesota National Guard, needed a kidney. The Apple Valley man’s hero is dead, shot in the head on a street in Pittsburgh. Anton Kemaev, of Siberia, wasn’t a target; he was just in the wrong place. Read more →
Christie Gingles, of Duluth, says she has a new understanding and compassion for the homeless; being homeless will do that to a person.
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Sandra Sue Albrecht, who died in July 2016, must be turning over in her grave over the way her headstone has split her family. Read more →
This video is racing across the InterTubes today. A group of snowmobilers came upon a stranded moose on Saturday in Newfoundland.
They dug it out. Read more →
The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore is being credited with ‘rescuing’ a woman who had to put her car in reverse during the big storm in the coastal town of Scituate, Mass., on Thursday.
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The Star Tribune reports that the frozen Minnehaha Falls is again luring people to ignore signs prohibiting them from walking into forbidden territory. Read more →
Friday January 5, 2018 (Subject to change as events dictate) Until 9 a.m. – Morning Edition Solvejg Wastvedt reports on the lack of progress so far on the agenda of St. Paul school board members who took their seats two years ago. Elizabeth Dunbar has the story of Minnesota’s solar capacity jumping into the country’s Read more →
Oh it’s on now between Minnesota and Washington over the weather, giving Minnesotans a reason to get up in the morning again. Read more →
Poor Domenico Montanaro, NPR’s lead political editor, found out the hard way that a large segment the public radio audience likes things just the way they’ve always been. A touch of humor? That’s risky business. Read more →
Despite increasing knowledge of how the game is scrambling the brains of its players and the political fallout from protests for racial equity, football appears to be surviving just fine.
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We can learn a lot from dogs. Read more →
Radio people of a certain age get accustomed to departures. It’s the nature of the business. Long before the “gig economy” became a thing, radio was one giant gig economy. People come, people go, the institution moves on as if they’d never been there at all. Read more →
2018 is off to a lousy start. Piper the airport dog is dead. Read more →
The man who helped coin the phrase doesn’t like it anymore. Read more →