Bob CollinsUnfortunately, we still don’t know who they are. Brooke Windsor tweeted the father and daughter wish to remain anonymous. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2019
Schools in the competition were given a single challenge and left to come up with something that would creatively accomplish the task. This year’s challenge: put money in a piggybank. Take a look at what the Chatfield kids built. Read more →
Sure, a local bookstore is a business, but when an owner — especially a new owner — shovels sand against the economic tide, it stands as a challenge to the rest of us: are we willing to do anything to keep local businesses and industries in our community and if so, what?
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Dylan doesn’t allow pictures to be taken during his concerts but the smartphones were out at a concert in Vienna and so Dylan stopped singing Blowin’ in the Wind and let the crowd have it.
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Today’s lesson, courtesy of the best sport ever invented, is (a) don’t forget your roots and (b) don’t miss a chance to make a difference in some kid’s life.
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A four-year legal battle raged over thea question that was answered only this month: in what jurisdiction does a trial take place, given that a flight from Minneapolis crosses eight states? Read more →
You order a TV from Amazon, but when the delivery comes, it’s a different TV. A better TV. A TV that costs twice as much as the one your ordered. Do you keep it? Read more →
On the steps of West High School, someone painted ‘Immigration is white genocide’ in time for the kids to see it on their way into the school on Tuesday morning. Read more →
Long after photographers and reporters go home and the cheers fall silent, the best stories emerge from the darkness. Read more →
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An idea in California is so brilliant, there’s no good reason it shouldn’t spread to the rest of the country. Read more →
Micah Herndon, a Marine, was running the Boston Marathon on Monday as a tribute to three Marines he served with who were killed in Afghanistan in 2010. Then his legs gave out. Read more →
Gonzalez Carranza is back in the United States, apparently because Immigration and Custom Enforcement knows a bad look when it sees it. Read more →
A seventh-grade teacher in Wisconsin is on leave after allegedly separating students by race and then telling the kids to research games from their culture.
For the black kids, it was ‘slave games,’ according to a seventh grader in Shorewood, Wis.
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