Bob CollinsNature is never more marvelous that when it changes the hue out the window.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2019
Former Minnesota Sixth District Congressman Mark Kennedy’s voting record may come back to haunt him as he tries to get a new gig as president of the University of Colorado. Read more →
When the Waukesha family’s story was told, people stepped up. So many people offered to be the donor, it crashed an overburdened screening process to select one. Read more →
Like many other issues, there is a reckoning coming on the issue.
But not until it gets talked about. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Katie Bouman was in high school in Indiana when she first learned about the Event Horizon Telescope. As a doctoral student at MIT, she helped in the creation of an algorithm that helped devise imaging methods to piece together data from the system. Read more →
This is a pretty incredible photograph from Associated Press White House photograph Pablo Martinez Monsivais. Read more →
WordPress was down for most of the morning, so I couldn’t give you the benefit of my usual routine in the morning. Instead, I just went live on Facebook while I read the paper. Boring, I know, but this is gestational character of NewsCut. Read more →
Let (s)he who has never had a day like St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder Marcell Ozuna had last evening cast the first stone. Read more →
An 18-year-old girl in St. Peter has proven that she does not deserve to drive a motor vehicle on Minnesota roads, based on a report from the Minnesota State Patrol on Facebook today. Not now. Perhaps, not ever. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
When’s the last time you cried because of a beer ad? Today. Read more →
Minneapolis-St. Paul ranked sixth in the nation of best places to live in the annual U.S. News & World report survey. Winning the whole thing would’ve been nice but we’re just happy to be in the same company as Des Moines, Fayetville, Austin, Denver, and Colorado Springs. Read more →
It take a lot to bring members of the House Judiciary Committee to tears but the testimony they heard today would stir even the hardest hearts. Read more →
Lt. Col. Richard Cole was 103 when he died Monday morning in San Antonio.
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