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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for February 2019

This or That

CBC reporter assaulted during live stand-up

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2019, 3:16 PM Feb 28, 2019
13

TV reporters are outrageously vulnerable when they’re doing live interviews and “stand-ups” as we learned in 2015 when a TV reporter and her camera crew were shot to death on live TV.

What happened to a CBC reporter in Toronto the other night wasn’t murder, but it was an assault. Read more →

Education

Texas takes a whack at history

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2019, 2:25 PM Feb 28, 2019
11

Its good news for the WASPs, the four chaplains, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Hillary Clinton — all of whom were originally on the list of people to be removed from the curriculum. But John Hancock, Nathan Hale, Stonewall Jackson, and Estee Lauder are, uh, history. Read more →

Health · Science

After surgery, 91-year-old dances with her doc

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2019, 10:54 AM Feb 28, 2019
4

Humans are amazing when they put their minds to it.
Read more →

Weather

As torturous month concludes, math provides hope

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2019, 8:39 AM Feb 28, 2019
37

There’ll be no snow today so we can take a few hours to gather our thoughts and prepare to survive the torture of a few more inches tomorrow. And have you heard it’s going to get ridiculously cold again? Of course you have. Otherwise you wouldn’t be out on that ledge. Read more →

Sports

Still kneeling ‘for righteousness sake’

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2019, 7:23 AM Feb 28, 2019

The saddest thing about what Devontae Shuler, a basketball player for Ole Miss, did last Saturday is try to explain why he took a knee during the National Anthem to a nation that knows exactly why he did it and is anxious to change the subject.
Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 2/28/2019

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2019, 6:00 AM Feb 28, 2019
4

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

Education

‘Boys Don’t Cry’ PSA shows the roots of toxic masculinity

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2019, 1:57 PM Feb 27, 2019

Bullies are made, not born. That’s a fact that Gillette tried to point out last month with its infamous ad about toxic masculinity. If that offended your sensibilities, you’re not going to like a PSA that was released today on the occasion of Canada’s Anti-Bullying Day. It hits like a sledgehammer. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Tennis shoe case could lead to wave of discrimination cases, justice warns

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2019, 11:09 AM Feb 27, 2019
10

A divided Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that a Minneapolis firefighter can sue for discrimination under the state’s Human Rights Act because the department refused to allow him to wear tennis shoes because of an injury.
Read more →

Crime and Justice

In convincing closing argument, N.D. man convicts himself

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2019, 9:47 AM Feb 27, 2019
10

There’s a lot to learn from the case of Greg Bowe, 54, of Williston, N.D., but it all boils down basically to this: don’t threaten to kill the jury before they decide whether you’re guilty. Read more →

Education

Minnesota lawmakers think your kids should know civics

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2019, 8:32 AM Feb 27, 2019
47

For some reason, we keep expecting Americans to become more engaged in their responsibility as citizens. We scratch our heads and try to figure out why they don’t vote and why elections end up as more theater than a sobering discussion of issues. Read more →

Economy · Weather

A blizzard, a roof collapse, and a MN family is out of the dairy business

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2019, 7:18 AM Feb 27, 2019
29

These are tough times in the dairy business, particularly for small operations. But the fact a livelihood is destroyed so quickly by a month of snow reveals the precipice on which many farmers stand. Read more →

What’s on MPR News -2/27/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2019, 6:00 AM Feb 27, 2019
0

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

Arts & Culture

Hmong baby is the new face of Gerber

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2019, 2:14 PM Feb 26, 2019
20

More than a half million people sent photos of their babies in this year’s bid to be the Gerber baby.

Only one made it. Read more →

Weather

They don’t call them Great Lakes for nothing

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2019, 1:51 PM Feb 26, 2019
4

Can your summer do this?
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Weather

Hey, Minnesota: Why do we live here?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2019, 10:39 AM Feb 26, 2019
68

Winter is our meteorological purification. So I squint as I look in the backyard. I can almost see July. And it is good. Read more →

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