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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2019
Who says there’s no heat in Minnesota right now? Read more →
During these cold snaps, we in the media struggle for new ways to tell you how cold it is, as if you don’t already know. Read more →
The Pioneer Press reports that other Minnesota laws were never changed when same-sex marriage became the law, so while a pregnant woman automatically is considered the mother of her baby, her wife is not. Read more →
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Almost all schools in Minnesota look as though they’re going to be closed on Tuesday and none of the superintendents made the announcement with even a hint of panache.
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There was a pretty good chance that nobody would show up for Joseph Walker’s funeral today, or even know that he was dead.
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Fewer firms increased capital spending compared to the October survey responses, but the cutback appeared to be concentrated more in structures than in information and communication technology investments, according to a press release accompanying the survey, which also showed that while most respondents don’t see a recession within the next year, they also don’t see much business growth. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals Monday broadened state law on what constitutes criminal sexual conduct beyond actual sex in the case of a man caught arrested after online conversations with a police decoy posing as a 14-year-old boy. Read more →
For the past few hours, it’s painful watching what’s become of Tom Brokaw, the once esteemed NBC News anchor who got into an online mess when he suggested Hispanics have an assimilation problem. Read more →
Already this morning, my Twitter feed is full of people worried that school be closed tomorrow, and that school won’t be closed tomorrow.
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There are guns in yearbook stories and then there are guns in yearbooks stories. They’re not all created equal and the Blackduck, Minn., School Committee seemed to recognize that when it voted to allow Antonia Long’s photo to appear in the yearbook. She’s holding a gun. Read more →
Star Tribune sports columnist Jim Souhan has had it up to here with what baseball writers have had to endure when submitting their votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Read more →
Any school bus driver will tell you this sort of thing happens all the time, it just happened to be in Dunn County, Wisc., (the Menomonie area) where someone with a dashcam caught the near horrifying moment when a driver couldn’t be bothered stopping for a school bus. Read more →