Bob CollinsThis is about the time of year when our self-delusion that we really enjoy it runs out of gas. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for February 2018
Police yourselves and use the opportunity to write your own blog post in the comments below. Or not. Read more →
Every day we’re confronted by the exploding opioid crisis ravaging the region and a story today in the La Crosse Tribune adds to the head-shaking senselessness. Read more →
The story about two books being removed from the curriculum in Duluth is missing an important question: How come nobody asked the teachers? Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Newspaper apologizes for editorial cartoon
Even in Canada, the country of hockey, it’s asking a lot to expect people to stay up to or get up at 3 a.m. to watch an Olympic hockey game, but the CBC says that’s what you get by having the Olympics in South Korea this year.
Even bars seem to be throwing in the towel. Read more →
There’s nothing that can’t stir up people. A 60-foot mermaid’s demise? Easy pickings. Read more →
For the last 15 years or so, the comic, a commentary on life in Minnesota, has run in the Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune, but cartoonist Chris Monroe, a Duluth native, says she’s finished.
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If you’re smart enough to become a university professor, you ought to be smart enough not to wish the president of the United States dead when giving a lecture. Read more →
Madeline Price really stirred things up a couple of years ago on the campus of the University of Queensland to educate people about Australia’s pay disparity.
She held a bake sale and charged men more. Why not? They make more.
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The University of Wisconsin added a pretty solid class of recruits on National Signing Day, but didn’t have everything they needed until they signed 6-year-old Nolan Faust to the squad. Read more →
Here are today’s topics and guests you’ll hear on MPR News today. Read more →
The research, in the PLOS One journal, said suicides spiked by 10% in the five months after Williams’ 2014 death, the BBC says. Read more →
Actor Kelsey Grammer tweeted the perfect message in honor of John Mahoney, the actor who played his elderly father on the TV series Frasier. Mahoney, who died Sunday, was just 53 when he started playing the part that endeared him so much to the audience that his death this week has elicited a reaction not usually given to supporting actors. Read more →