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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for April 2019

Politics

Campaign ad didn’t work last time, but a Texas pol is using it again

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 23, 2019, 1:45 PM Apr 23, 2019
6

Only in these times could a candidate launch a campaign with a campaign ad about a campaign ad she used in a previous election that she lost. Read more →

Another daily paper cuts print schedule

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 23, 2019, 11:38 AM Apr 23, 2019
2

If a person is walking naked down the streets of Crookston, it may take longer before the residents can read about it in the newspaper.
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Politics

What journalists should’ve learned about hacked material

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 23, 2019, 10:23 AM Apr 23, 2019

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, makes an excellent point: shouldn’t the media be learning something from the way it reported the material stolen by Russia and used to influence the election in 2016? Read more →

Regional history

NewsCut Flashback: The day Baby Face Nelson came to Brainerd

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 23, 2019, 8:39 AM Apr 23, 2019
3

Nelson and his gang escaped with $30,000 — about $500,00 in today’s dollars. With mining operations and the railroad in full tilt, Brainerd had a lot of cash around town.
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Education

South St. Paul students want identity at their commencement

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 23, 2019, 7:11 AM Apr 23, 2019

What is it that gives us our identities? For a group of South St. Paul students, it’s sashes at commencement. Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 4/23/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 23, 2019, 5:45 AM Apr 23, 2019
8

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

What’s on MPR News – 4/22/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 22, 2019, 5:57 AM Apr 22, 2019
2

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

Arts & Culture · Education · Sports

In Minnesota high schools, the boys can now dance

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 20, 2019, 9:07 AM Apr 20, 2019
8

The Minnesota State High School League, the organization that controls high school sports here, is giving up its opposition to allowing boys to be on competitive dance teams in high school. Read more →

The jobs we do · This or That

It got better for a young reporter. Then someone killed her.

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2019, 3:51 PM Apr 19, 2019
2

This is Lyra McKee, who was shot and killed while trying to do her job on Thursday. She’s a reporter. Read more →

Sports

After link to racist songs, sports teams give Kate Smith the boot

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2019, 11:04 AM Apr 19, 2019
10

At one time, Kate Smith pretty much was America. Times change, though, and the legendary — and dead — singer of her signature God Bless America is out at no less an American institution than Yankee Stadium. Read more →

Health

In Fargo, a stunning display of deescalating a bad situation

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2019, 8:02 AM Apr 19, 2019
13

The news is full of stories of people in a mental health crisis ending up dead at the hands of people who were called to help. That’s why what happened in Fargo on Thursday night is a game changer. Read more →

This or That

Ancestry.com romanticizes slavery to sell you a DNA kit

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2019, 7:17 AM Apr 19, 2019
21

Slavery is good marketing for Ancestry.com, the outfit that sells DNA tests. It’s not a good look for the firm. Whitewashing never is.
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What’s on MPR News – 4/19/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2019, 5:57 AM Apr 19, 2019
29

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

Sports

U acknowledges the obvious: It costs too much to watch hockey, basketball

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2019, 1:38 PM Apr 18, 2019
15

The athletic department announced on Thursday that season tickets for men’s basketball will drop to $340 in some sections, a $190 drop. Six sections overlooking the court will drop by $150. Hockey will drop from $600 to $500. It’s the second straight season that hockey will drop by $100. Read more →

This or That

Prediction: The keyboard will be gone in five years

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2019, 10:30 AM Apr 18, 2019
64

If you had a technical choice now to give up your keyboard, would you? Read more →

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