Bob Collins
Canada, which has the world’s best national anthem, is tweaking the thing to get with the times.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for February 2018
Here’s today’s daily dose of sweetness, but you’ll have to wait for it. Plastic bags make lousy blindfolds. It’s unlikely, of course, that any of the kids who used them as blindfolds during a game of musical chairs as part of the Detroit Lakes schools’ Snoball week were going to die of suffocation. But some Read more →
‘Impeach’
That word on a crude sign on a lawn in La Crosse, Wis., has reinforced the First Amendment. Read more →
Graffiti on Barn Bluff’s rock face is a tradition and sometimes it can be touching, as when someone painted Prince’s symbol on the bluff not long after he was found dead. The city painted over it, and another Prince tribute was painted over that.
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Hi there, visitors. Welcome to our state. Before you unpack, please understand that one of the reasons why the locals — who love the cold, they say — are talking about how terribly cold it is today is so that you’ll think highly of our ability to ignore the cold and pretend we love it so much we dread the coming summer. Just humor us; it’s a thing.
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Life is a crapshoot. An unfair crapshoot. It’s the only way to explain two stories in the news. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →