Bob CollinsIt’s hard to buy just the right birthday present for your kids when they become adults. Better just to slip a few bucks in a card and let them shop for themselves. Classic.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for May 2019
There’s no getting around it: As a species, we’re pigs. Read more →
The Fresno Grizzlies put the ‘minor league’ in the minor leagues.
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Though I’ve been in the news business for over 35 years, the connections and coincidences in the news — especially in times of turmoil — never fail to amaze me.
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The Children’s Theatre Company, which prevailed in a lawsuit over the abuse of child actors, has lost the public relations war.
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Be nice to a snowflake today. Gillette is out with another ad that attempts to redefine masculinity Read more →
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Perhaps this is a condition of the aged, but I suspect people of a certain age tend to struggle trying to mute an inner voice when reading column’s like Patrick Reusse’s tribute to a sportswriter in Sunday’s Star Tribune. The voice that asks, “when I’m gone, will anyone remember that I was here?” Read more →
It’s Memorial Day weekend, the annual tradition in which sports teams and businesses can cash in on the sacrifice of soldiers.
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Shannon McCarthy’s family and friends aren’t too proud to beg.
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Last night’s playoff game in Milwaukee — the Bucks lost to Toronto — provided the quintessential Wisconsin moment: the city’s alpha male sports stars chugging beer. Read more →
Back in the day, the people who delivered the mail were part of the glue of a neighborhood. In Georgia, one ‘postman’ found out just how much the people on his route appreciated him. Read more →
The Associated Press invited us to pause and reflect on the past by taking another long look at the present: images of the men who are still able to return to Europe for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
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Duluth’s competition for a new city flag is turning nasty.
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