Bob CollinsI can’t recall ever seeing a perspective like this of a tornado, but it happened today in Sulphur, OK when someone launched a drone to follow it. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2019
According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, teenage suicide spiked 28.9% after the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” premiered in 2017. That’s 195 dead kids more than would have been expected. Read more →
Someone hacked the website of the group trying to restore the name of Bde Maka Ska. Read more →
It’s one thing to honor Prince; it’s another to make him part of a business model, John Shipley of the Pioneer Press says.
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Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
The Facebook post from the Kenyon Police Department is sad and infuriating. Someone gets scammed for $2,500 and a large area retailer doesn’t seem to be interested in doing much about it. And why would they? They get the money.
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The soccer game at Allianz Field was over by the time Angelo Rodriguez returned to the field after the game to give his kids a little taste of game time on Sunday. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday renewed the debate over the renaming of Minneapolis’ Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska, overturning a Ramsey County District Court ruling that had derailed a challenge. Read more →
The rules of prom were clear: You could bring anybody you want as long as one of the attendees is a senior. And that’s how Randy Rohl and Grady Quinn became the first gay couple to attend a high school prom. Read more →
On another morning full of stories of hate, we are somewhat comforted in the knowledge that there are still people grabbing a share of our attention armed only with whimsy and good spirit. Leave it to the science kids. Read more →
Rumors swept through the northwest Minnesota town on Thursday that the high school had banned the American flag, No, it didn’t.
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Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear on MPR News on Monday. Read more →
We apologize profusely for failing to notice Boyd’s Huppert’s story this week about the housekeeper at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Children’s Hospital and the 4-year-old boy he befriended Read more →
‘The pie has been cut too many times,’ said Anthony Mitchell, manager of Yellow Cab.
Let us count the ways: Uber, Lyft, electric scooters. Read more →
There’s some irony — somewhere — in the inability of a World War II bomber to land at the Anoka-Blaine airport on July 4th because of a nearby golf tournament.
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