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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for June 2018

Sports

Minnesota United player Collin Martin publicly announces he is gay

Chris GravesChris Graves June 29, 2018, 11:31 AM Jun 29, 2018
4

Collin Martin, the 23-year-old midfielder with the Minnesota United,  took to Twitter Friday to announce he is gay. He is wrapped in a Pride flag on his post and he tells his followers the team is celebrating Pride at the game on Friday. “It’s an important night for me,” he said. “I’ll be announcing for the Read more →

Latest data show Minnesota economy crushing it vs. Wisconsin

Paul TostoPaul Tosto June 29, 2018, 11:00 AM Jun 29, 2018
30

While we weren’t looking, Minnesota eclipsed Wisconsin last month in total jobs, continuing a decade-long trend of economic dominance over the Badger State. Read more →

A madman with a vendetta and a shotgun will not stop the press

Chris GravesChris Graves June 29, 2018, 10:36 AM Jun 29, 2018
15

  If you’re a reporter in the news business long enough, you’ve written stories just like the one a former Capital Gazette columnist penned about Jarrod Ramos and some trouble he got into back in 2011. Ramos is the guy who apparently felt so begrudged by the columnist’s words that he blasted through the glass door of Read more →

Where am I and what am I doing?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2018, 8:20 AM Jun 29, 2018
36

Posting will be light here today as I am on the road working on a piece for next week. It’s all a big mystery and very hush-hush unless you listen to the podcast about NewsCut Stephanie Curtis cranks out every afternoon. Read more →

People doing good

1,000 Words: The daily paper

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2018, 8:17 AM Jun 29, 2018
9

“I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow!” – Chase Cook, reporter, The Capital Gazette Read this thread from MPR hero Jon Collins: 2) If you want media that perfectly reflects your worldview & ideology, excluding all else, you don't want journalism, you want propaganda — Jon Collins (@JonSCollins) June Read more →

What’s on MPR News? 6/29/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2018, 5:42 AM Jun 29, 2018
2

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

Sports

When athletes bare all, the women get pushback

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2018, 1:26 PM Jun 28, 2018
21

Two Minnesota athletes posed naked for this months ESPN Magazine. Only one seems to be getting much attention for doing so. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Twitter fight ends with an old-school solution

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2018, 10:07 AM Jun 28, 2018
78

It had all the makings of a typical Twitter fight that solves nothing, two people in an us-against-them world exercising their fingers. But something unique happened in the confrontation between music producer Erick Anderson (Afrokeys) and Sean Tillmann, known as Har Mar Superstar: they worked it out. Read more →

Arts & Culture

When art is all business, passion takes a back seat

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2018, 9:29 AM Jun 28, 2018
40

One of the greatest festival choruses in the country — the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which performs with the Boston Symphony — is in an uproar after a new boss required them to reaudition for their jobs and has purged dozens in what members are calling ‘a bloodbath.’
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People doing good

The people among us who make you want to be a better person

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2018, 8:14 AM Jun 28, 2018
6

Natalie Schuneman took her son, Landon, 8, to the Under Armour store in Albertville on Monday to buy his first pair of shoes since he stopped wearing corrective equipment because of a club foot.
Read more →

Education · Sports

Lesbian told not to bother applying for Rochester Catholic school coaching job

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2018, 7:12 AM Jun 28, 2018
63

Katie Erbe-Shea, one of Minnesota’s best high school basketball players back in the day, will not be getting the head coaching job at Lourdes High School, the Catholic high school in Rochester.
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What’s on MPR News? 6/28/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2018, 6:00 AM Jun 28, 2018
3

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

The jobs we do

Death of a Minnesota tinkerer in an Atlanta beer cooler

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2018, 2:51 PM Jun 27, 2018
5

Todd Keeling, 48, of White Bear Lake, was justifiably proud of his invention and every time you get a beer poured at Target Field in about five seconds or less you should think of him. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Precedent won’t impede overturning Roe v. Wade

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2018, 12:23 PM Jun 27, 2018
56

The union decision doesn’t clear a pathway for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The court’s conservatives signaled long ago that they were open to the idea. The union decision, instead, illustrates that the interpretations — real or imagined — of ‘stare decisis’ won’t stop it.
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This or That

Even dogs can’t escape the daily outrage

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2018, 9:44 AM Jun 27, 2018
9

For months now, We Rate Dogs on Twitter has been an oasis in a world of nonsense and bickering.

Need a break from life? There’s nothing a dog can’t do.
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