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If Wednesday evening’s vigil for a student killed during this week’s school shooting in Colorado is any indication, it’s no longer possible to mourn gun victims without politicians and activists crowding out the kids. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for May 2019
The heavens above, in this case the Milky Way. So natural. So mysterious. So beautiful. So incredibly fake. Read more →
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania is closing, an announcement that brings back a flood of memories of a panic. That’s when a president stepped in, Read more →
It’s not often — well, never — we hear about road rage on bicycles but KARE 11 says a single bicyclist is responsible for two attacks on a school bus blocking his path. Read more →
We’re probably never going to see the full Mueller report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election in support of the person who won the election, but a group of psychiatrists have used the redacted version to offer a clinical diagnosis of the president’s mental health. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear on Thursday on MPR News Read more →
A typical Major League Baseball team is a melting pot of camaraderie — whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos all united in pursuit of a common purpose. We could all take a lesson.
Except that sometimes, a different truth is revealed — a racial and ethnic divide that isn’t much different than the rest of society. Read more →
From what I can tell, Cynthia Marie Thiel was like me. A passionate sports fan who just wanted her team to win a championship before she died. Read more →
News media from as far away from Tokyo showed up to document the Warroad Pioneer’s demise because, apparently, even the people of Tokyo care more about Warroad than the people of Warroad. Read more →
The Republican majority in the Minnesota Senate, with the help of a few DFLers — is trying to strip money from the Society in retaliation for its decision to add a single word to a sign for the Fort Snelling Historical Site Read more →
Sure, it was a lousy winter that was perfect for potholes. But this year’s potholes are also last year’s potholes which were fixed with Band Aids. Some cities have worse potholes than others because some cities have no choice but to let roads go to pot. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear on MPR News on Wednesday. Read more →
Autherine Lucy Foster was able to walk onto the campus of the University of Alabama in 1956, four years after she applied for admission, igniting a legal battle. Three days later, she was expelled. Read more →
It was on this date in 1975 that President Gerald Ford announced that the Vietnam War era was over, a declaration that doesn’t even register a blip on the historical calendar because the war actually ended more than a week earlier when Ford told a graduating class at Tulane University that for America, the war was over. Read more →
James Callahan, 43, a teacher in Lowell, Mass., apparently didn’t understand a lot of what his students were saying when he started a list, which, in the last week or so, has been a Twitter hit. He started a dictionary of Generation Z language. Read more →