Bob CollinsThat old joke about Minnesotans being willing to give you directions to anywhere but their home is case aside by a lovely story in the Star Tribune about two families that have eaten together once a week for 30 years. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for February 2018
There’s a war going on inside the brain of 26-year-old Sioux Falls school teacher Katie Blunck. Either that one or the one she’s waging with an insurance company could kill her. Read more →
A call in Bemidji, Minn., to join a planned nationwide protest over school shootings did not survive a school superintendent’s review, the Bemidji Pioneer reports today.
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‘One life can give so many gifts,’ Jim Walsh writes, “a sad fact that we realize profoundly when death comes calling.’ Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Skateboards, DNA, and lobster are getting new emojis after a rash of complaints from — I guess — fans of lobster, skateboards, and DNA. Read more →
Elizabeth Swaney’s motto might as well be, ‘somebody’s got to finish in last place.’
Mission accomplished. Read more →
For a horrible-tasting drink, Red Bull certainly is able to get people to do odd things in support of its ongoing marketing.
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One doesn’t have to go to Appalachia to see the poverty and ghost towns from failed and abandoned mining. One need only take a relatively short drive from Minnesota to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where copper mining isn’t what it once was. Read more →
There’s no reason for the Russians to stop messing with our democracy. They’ve figured out Americans, who too often only see what they want to see and won’t question where the information came from nor what they’re told.
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Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
In her New York Times op-ed over the weekend, Honor Jones acknowledged it’s not for women to criticize what other women wear.
Then she criticized the choices of women at the gym, specifically: yoga pants. Read more →
Will Buckley, 62, of Eau Claire, needed a kidney once his University of Minnesota doctor told him the ones he had were done for. He would be too if someone didn’t step forward. Read more →
The flotsam and jetsam that flies out of trucks, whose drivers ignore the law requiring their loads be properly secured, peppers drivers with an array of material that could kill them.
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Levi Patterson, the coach of a 9-and-under baseball team in Neosho, Missouri, is going ahead with the gun raffle. He owns a gun store in town and says he came up with the idea before the shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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