Bob Collins
There’s more than the Wetterlings’ reputation and the reputation of journalists at stake with what comes next; there’s also the willingness of victims and others to assist investigators in the future. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2018
Two decades ago this week, Michael Mann and a group of researchers published this graph. It changed the world, or at least it still could. Read more →
The coach of the Old Rochester High School Bulldogs, in Mattapoisett, Mass., appears to have done everything right once he realized the mismatch his team had on its hands the other day in high school baseball. Read more →
Because the internet is full of parenting experts, some of the reaction was entirely predictable. How can a kid learn to fail if Mom pitches in? Read more →
Here are the topics, guests, and stories you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
1,000 Words: The baby in the SenateCanada has been pretty much on a roll the last few years. Why, the great white north has looked positively appealing when viewed from the American lens.
But an ugly reality of life in Canada was illuminated today when the Supreme Court there upheld a ban on transporting any more than 12 pints of beer from one province. Twelve pints? Oh, Canada! Read more →
We are left to decide whether we want to be smarter and die with a heart attack sooner. Or live longer and have less brain function. Read more →
There’s always at least one guy at baseball games who assumes other people want to look at this sort of thing Read more →
Every patient’s health insurance plan varies, and the costs — and so the copays — of a prescription can soar overnight, so there’s no way for doctors to know whether a prescription is right for a patient.
Oh, sure, medically it’s comparatively easy to know. But if a patient can’t afford the cure, what’s the point of the exercise?
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The State of Hockey isn’t playoff caliber this year, or just about any year previous. But the fans keep buying up all the tickets at the Xcel Center anyway. Read more →
Here are the topics, stories, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Maybe, not quite, but NewsCut has been added to the MPR News Update podcast. It’ll update every day around noon. It will also be available on Alexa as part of the Flash Briefing. Read more →
The era of $2 gasoline may be over — again. The experts today predicted gasoline will shoot past $3 a gallon in the next few weeks in many states with the nationwide average of $2.80.
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Sometimes a news story just makes you go ‘huh’.
So it is with the story from Alabama, where a train full of feces from New Jersey and New York has been torturing a town for several months and the town is sick of it. Read more →