Bob CollinsFlowers and hockey generally don’t go hand in hand. But the times demanded it for the West Fargo Sheyenne Mustang hockey team, which made a stop on the way to their game against the Red River Roughriders. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
While I think I understand George H.W. Bush better than I did when he was in office, I still have a problem reconciling the ability of politicians to take advantage of a moment in order to obtain a measure of power via an election. Read more →
Given a choice between indoors and outdoors, an NHL team can’t resist hockey the way it was meant to be played. Read more →
The story of a school that had a high percentage of underserved students accepted into some of the nation’s best universities was salve for the wounds of a wicked world.
Who didn’t feel good watching the viral videos of students checking whether they got accepted or not? Read more →
It seemed like a nice little song at one time until more men got educated about things like consent. Now, it’s just creepy. Read more →
Zach Carlsen, of Stillwater, had a ‘crazy idea’ last year, he acknowledges. He’d wear the same outfit every day for a year as part of a personal mission to minimize the number of small decisions he makes every day and focus his energy on bigger things.
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Aaron Parmlet, a sheriff’s deputy in Butte County, Calif. thought he was done for. The flames from the northern California wildfire were on all sides of him when his police car broke down. And he still hadn’t found nurses he was sent to rescue. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
I don’t really have any words. Read more →
‘(We) made a vow to never pass up a photobooth,’ Betz Petersen tells KARE. ‘Like, as long as we were dating, it was just never pass up a photo booth.’ Read more →
What was so important on Netflix that Taylor Thiets, 20, of Maplewood, had to watch it while driving 70 mph on I-94 before crashing between Rothsay and Fergus Falls?
We can’t know, apparently.
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You can be forgiven if your first reaction to Gautum Mereddy’s story in the Duluth Tribune is, ‘his parents must have really pushed the kid.’ Mereddy, a student at Duluth East, received perfect scores on all five of the ACT and SAT tests he took.
Nope. They were ‘hands off,’ he said. Read more →
A new journal article says dogs fared poorly compared to cats, wolves, chimps and pigeons when it came to intelligence, But there’s something pigeons, wolves and chimps can’t do: keep you alive. Read more →
If you’ve raised kids, you know that the day you drop them off at school is among the most heartbreaking days for a parent. They don’t need you anymore, at least during school hours. For most parents, they soon realize it’s among the most joyous moments; they’ve got part of their lives back. At least during school hours.
Of course, you actually have to have a life for that to be of any value and too many people in Darien, Conn., don’t, apparently. Read more →