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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for April 2019

Health · Politics

With taxpayer help, insurance companies make good money

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 2, 2019, 7:01 AM Apr 2, 2019
17

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in the Obama administration, the woes of insurance companies and premium-paying customers have always been front-page news as the shock-to-the-system health care law gets implemented.

But what’s this? The non-profit insurance companies in Minnesota have made a ton of money in the last year. Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 4/2/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 2, 2019, 6:00 AM Apr 2, 2019
14

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

Sports

Sick Twins burn melts outfield snow in Cleveland

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 12:53 PM Apr 1, 2019
9

The Cleveland media spent much of the weekend complaining that the Minnesota Twins didn’t build a domed ballpark, thanks to a stiff wind and 37 degree temperatures for the opening series of the 2019 baseball stadium. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education

#MyLastShot campaign pressures media to show the bodies

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 10:35 AM Apr 1, 2019

The Columbine High School shooting 20 years ago this month is the massacre that started the wave of mass shootings in the modern crime era.

We’ve come a long way since then and many shootings never make it to the front page; they’re that common now. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Health

Docs, families no fans of ‘Fortnite’

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 9:05 AM Apr 1, 2019

‘We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside. He took a hammer to the windshield,’ Michael Rich, a pediatrician and director of the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital. Read more →

Health · Sports

Bucky Badger goes to the Big Dance

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 8:14 AM Apr 1, 2019
0

Dolly Bauer, formerly of Durand, Wis., has dementia now and lives at a memory care facility in Eau Claire. Music and dance brings her back from the fog of Alzheimer’s. Read more →

Education · People doing good

Farmington robotics kids build a wheelchair

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 7:02 AM Apr 1, 2019

Sometimes you get up in the morning and think there’s no hope in the world.

Today is not one of those days. Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 4/1/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 6:00 AM Apr 1, 2019
29

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

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