Paul TostoThe Anti-Defamation League says it from Target customers who bought diapers at the store only to open them and find the slogan linked to white supremacist groups written on a laminated index card.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Paul Tosto
Paul Tosto is an editor for MPR News.
The Museum of English Rural Life had a little fun on Twitter Monday, and followers rewarded the museum with a collective hug for some comic relief in a social media season where fun is really hard to find. Read more →
Billet families are the bright lights in what can be an unforgiving existence in western Canada’s junior hockey leagues. Their pain is surfacing now in the the days since a semitrailer ripped into a Canadian junior hockey league team bus, killing 15 people. Read more →
Check your sports cynicism at the door, people. The girl’s basketball tournament is underway. Read more →
NZK Productions has a permit to shoot Saturday on the state Capitol grounds. NZK is perhaps best known as the firm behind the ABC TV spectacle, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” which already has an intriguing Minnesota connection. Read more →
I’m not a great Supreme Court watcher, but when you see ‘(laughter)’ in the transcript during your arguments, it probably is not a good thing. Read more →
Watch the video and, after your heart stops racing, you’ll have a little better appreciation of the people who run toward danger while you’re running away. Read more →
When the call went out for folks to read to a lonely Sting, the nation responded. We’re talking about the White Bear Lake library dog. Read more →
Providing a fingerprint to unlock a criminal suspect’s phone “elicited only physical evidence … and did not reveal the contents of his mind,” the Minnesota Supreme Court said Wednesday. Read more →
J.T. Brown said he saw a raised fist as a middle ground gesture for those who believed that kneeling for the national anthem, as some NFL players have done, disrespected the flag. His consideration of the matter didn’t spare him from the angry, racist backlash. Read more →
When I saw there were state rankings of pet obesity, I was ready to go all Indignant Minnesotan. Surely, we had the fittest pets, or at least fitter than Wisconsin. But facts are stubborn things. Read more →
I can’t get my head around the mess that will be Interstate 94 in Minneapolis this summer. Read more →
Dick and Donna Mueller, who started the cheese curd craze at the fair decades ago, had hoped to retire and hand the booth over to younger members of the family. The State Fair board said no. After two months of wrangling, the family said Tuesday they’re calling it quits. Read more →
The ESPN broadcast features a surprising revelation: Seibel is out of jail and living only a few miles from the school. Read more →
A Wisconsin creamery has found a butter loophole in the law that will allow the creamy goodness to be sold in the Dairy State. Read more →