Bob CollinsThe trial of a Baudette, Minn., woman should give pause to people who donate to grassroots fundraising websites. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
Bottom line to the rest of us: Stay in your lane when making a right turn. Read more →
MPR News reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim’s been covering the ISIS terror recruit cases for more than a year, so the security people at federal court should know who he is. But yesterday he was prevented from entering the courtroom with the rest of the media. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed an unemployment law judge’s determination that if a person takes time off from work to address her family’s homelessness, she hasn’t quit her job. Read more →
Give credit to Washington County for wanting to find out how pervasive human trafficking is around here.
Now it’s found out. It’s disgustingly bad. Read more →
Minneapolis took more than a year to investigate an officer’s complaint of age discrimination, then claimed that the statute of limitations ran out on a suit filed under the state’s Human Rights Act. Read more →
How much ice is too much ice in a Starbucks iced beverage?
It’ll be up to a court to decide. Someone is suing the chain because its drinks are almost half ice.
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St. Paul’s skyways can be pretty scary. They’re often abandoned and the various nooks and crannies can be a perfect hiding spot for the occasional ne’er-do-well. And that’s in the middle of the afternoon.
So is closing a few of them at 10 p.m. that bad of an idea?
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A Wisconsin case illuminates the other half of the growing texting-while-driving problem: the people with whom the drivers are texting. Read more →
Unless we’re misreading today’s Star Tribune editorial, the idea of a little public shaming of the men who turned I-394 into their personal Watkins Glen is on the table. Read more →
Punishing someone for misconduct before a trial is no reason to keep a sexual assault allegation on someone’s record, the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday said. Read more →
There should be an alternative for a veteran with PTSD than a cell. But when Joe Serna, 41, a former Special Forces member who has been awarded three Purple Hearts, appeared in a court, North Carolina District Court Judge Lou Olivera didn’t have a lot of choice when Serna admitted he lied about a recent urine test. He sentenced him to a day in jail.
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Protesters with air horns disrupted last night’s MinnRoast, the fundraiser at the State Theater for the independent news site MinnPost [dislaimer: I am a financial contributor to MinnPost], after Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges used an incident during the 4th Precinct protests as the setting for a joke about her husband. Last November 18, a group Read more →
Montevideo, Minn., is high on the list of quirky cities of Minnesota. This video, posted on the police department’s Facebook page, isn’t going to tarnish its image one bit.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals is now considering the case of a man who sawed his neighbor’s garage in half in a property dispute.
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