Bob Collins
If there’s one thing yesterday’s Super Bowl has taught us it’s that nothing is going to stop people from playing football. It’s simply too ingrained in the American culture now.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Health
NPR had an odd disclaimer this morning when introducing its StoryCorps segment, the in-their-own words feature in which people tell their own story. It’s a story nobody should turn away from.
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The sentencing of a repeat drunk driver this week is raising an ongoing question surrounding the problem of alcohol and vehicles: Does getting tougher on drunk driving work? Read more →
It’s easy to hate on Martin Shkreli, the smug kid who got rich quick by pricing pharmaceuticals at a ridiculously high price because he bought the rights to them.
Politicians in Washington got a crack at him today. Nobody is going to think ill of politicians trying to beat up a drug thug like Shkreli.
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At Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Heather Clark met Jordan Drake and her family. Jordan, now 4, has had six surgeries because of a congenital heart defect.
Heather held a stethoscope to Jordan’s chest the other day, and heard her son’s beating heart. Read more →
I have a friend who is about to do what most of us are too afraid to do: He’s about to follow his dream. Good for him. Literally, it’s good for him, some recent research suggests. Read more →
Today would be a good day to tell politicians that it’s OK to listen to what people are telling them. Read more →
Can Wisconsin employers be a little more supportive of employees who are willing to give a little piece of themselves to save someone else’s life?
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Tim Harris is the only restaurant owner in the country with Down Syndrome. But he’s given it up for love. Read more →
Experts on suicide have generally succeeded in tamping down public talk about suicide by the nation’s school children. But Dan and Wanda Lienemann of Waukee, Iowa think there’s a better way to prevent the kind of thing that happened to their 18-year-old son. Read more →
While reading the obituary today of Lucas David Ronnei of Victoria, Minn., we realized where the young man got the courage in his struggle against depression and addiction. It was in his DNA, inherited from a family that wrote one of the most powerful obituaries we’ve ever read.
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I don’t know if you can see the video of what happened around Keller Park last night, Facebook settings being what they are and all, but it was a pretty astounding statement that a man who took his own life last fall mattered, and his loss is a loss for us all. Read more →
Army Staff Sergeant Matthew Whalen suffered a massive and sudden stroke in Dallas. He couldn’t be saved, but he was kept alive so that his organs could be donated to someone else. Read more →
This is my final day filling in for Kerri Miller on her MPR talk show and, I suppose, we’re not going to exactly ‘leave ’em laughing.’ Read more →
If there’s a more despicable disease, I’m unaware of it. Perhaps that’s why you don’t hear a lot of politicians criticizing a huge increase in Alzheimer’s research.
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