Bob Collins
The urgency, the timing, and the history messages us that this isn’t going to be good news for one of the best educators the University of Minnesota ever had. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Health
It was an awful tragedy in Dallas this week when Patti Stevens, 54, took her own life, two weeks after a mentally ill former Texas A&M football player hacked her husband to death with a machete while he was out for an early-morning jog.
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Greta Perske of Sartell, Minn., was 15 years old in 2006 when she was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia. She got to dance at her wedding recently with the man whose marrow made a wedding day possible. Read more →
It’s an old story that the New York Times has done a masterful job telling this week. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy loses job and balloons to nearly 600 pounds. Boy hears the Proclaimers’ hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” on the radio. Boy decides to bike across America to win girl’s heart back again. Boy gets girl. Maybe. Read more →
Last Thursday, New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia pitched five innings to win the game that clinched a wild card spot for the Yankees. Read more →
The Kennedy clan is circling the wagons after Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Edward Kennedy, released his book detailing his struggles with substance abuse and bipolar disorder.
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If the child protection system in Minnesota still seems functional to you — despite the Star Tribune’s ongoing series proving that it’s not — then consider just four paragraphs in reporter Brandon Stahl’s story today on Cynthia Kiewatt, 43, who has had several chances to prove she’s fit to care for her two-year-old son. Read more →
Nurse Susan Berger always wondered whatever happened to the baby she cared for in 1977. The badly-burned baby grew up to be Amanda Scarpinati, who always wondered whatever happened to that nurse.
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It was ‘tear your heart out night’ at Target Field last night, and that was before the Twins and Indians played.
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The problem isn’t just that premiums are going up. Deductibles and co-pays have been rising faster than most employees’ wages’ ability to keep up. Read more →
This is Martin Shkreli, who today became the face of the perceived problem with the health care industry– drug makers. Read more →
You probably don’t need any more shame for your youthful sedentary lifestyle, but here’s some anyway in the form of Don Pellman, a Wisconsin man, who tried to set a new record in the pole vault in San Diego yesterday. Read more →
Your daily moment of sweetness.
The 39th president of the United States went to a baseball game last night. Read more →
At the Miss America pageant earlier this month, Miss Colorado didn’t bother with a song-and-dance routine during the talent portion of the pageant. Instead, she talked about being a nurse.
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Is it hard to imagine an issue in a campaign that doesn”t involve boogeymen ? Read more →