Bob CollinsNine of the 10 states contending with the highest losses of county income voted for President Trump in 2016, including, in order, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. Fifteen of the 16 highest-harm states were also red. States likely to benefit mostly voted for Hillary Clinton. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2019
A food company tries to get away with porn references in its Super Bowl ad. It didn’t work. Read more →
Dejah Rondeau is a pretty good quarterback, and it’s driving a lot of the boys who aren’t crazy. Read more →
A newspaper in Japan is reporting that Foxconn is suspending work on its $10 billion plant in Wisconsin, a day after news broke the company isn’t going to provide manufacturing jobs, but will make the facility a research and engineering facility instead. Read more →
This is impressive. A Twitter account has posted this picture of an exploding toilet tank.
We are skeptical. We want to know more. Read more →
There may be only one place in the Northern Hemisphere where people aren’t talking about the cold: Carstairs, Alberta, north of Calgary.
They’ve got a mystery in the town of 4,000. Car FOB’s have stopped working near a grocery store. Read more →
Giggle if you must, but maybe you’ve never been overwhelmed by the trauma of learning math. Numbers, nothing but numbers that are all supposed to fit somewhere.
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Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Everything’s cool in International Falls. Read more →
A lot of people on social media are pointing out today that it’s colder in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest than it is in Antarctica, to which others point out that it’s winter in the Upper Midwest and summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
Both are missing an important point. Read more →
Jason Kiley’s beard is so long, he’s zipped it into his jacket a few times, tied it into his shoelaces by mistake, and there’s that food thing. Read more →
We hold doors for each other. We let the pedestrians cross against the light and think nothing of it because they’re out there and we’re safe in a car and, what the heck does it matter anyway? We’re nicer
this week and we got that way without terrorists having to ram jetliners into buildings like the last time we were all nice to each other because we were all in it together. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
We all know the type. Flies on frequent flyer miles. Has to wait to get a seat assignment that puts her in the middle seat, talks loudly on the cellphone so everyone know the details of her victimization. Read more →