Bob Collins
KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert, of course, has found another angel walking among us and, as it turns out, he owns a bus company.
He’s Jon Held, who has the bus contract for the Kenyon-Wanamingo School District. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
People doing good
Writing an op-ed in the Star Tribune today, Mark Brandt, of Minneapolis, spotted one of those ‘no big deal’ moments of true charity.
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Madeline ‘Dutch’ Swain died of Parkinson’s on Friday, with her daughters by her side.
They had to say goodbye and make plans for what would happen upon her death, the scripture at the service, instructions for people not to wear black, and a notation in an obituary that in lieu of flowers or memorials, people should just commit a random act of kindness and post it on Facebook. Read more →
An Olympian’s gold medal was stolen and Joe Jacobi thought it was gone forever. There are a lot of creeps in the world.
Fortunately, there are little girls and families of character.
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On Saturday, artists and volunteers at the Weisman Art Museum Collective at the University of Minnesota are going to pick up trash along the Mississippi River. They will create some sort of installation to show how our everyday actions are affecting the river. In one section, someone has beat them to it. Read more →
The football player is Travis Rudolph, a wide receiver. The kid is Bo Paske, a young man who probably reminds you of the kids you might’ve mistreated or ignored when you were his age. Read more →
Chris Ford and Nicole Wismer, of Nashville, were to be married in November. But then he got the word from his doctor that he’ll probably be dead by then. He has cancer. Read more →
There’s a racist in Tenino, Washington. That would be a fitting headline if not for the fact there are a lot more people spreading their love of neighbors and community.
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A Utah woman posted on Facebook that her autistic daughter is fixated on a shirt and design that brings the 10-year-old comfort. As the daughter grows and as the shirt wears out, she buys a new version of the same shirt.
Then the company that made the shirt for Target stopped making it.
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Cortez Riley, of St. Cloud, may be on to something that should catch on.
He just turned 28, the St. Cloud Times says, so to celebrate, he set up a week of events to get his family and friends to join him in volunteering around his community.
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Emmanuel Matadi, a Johnson High grad, is going to run the 200-meter dash at the Olympics in Rio today and his mother is going to see him do it, and that should sustain us through another day in the drumbeat of awful news.
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At a hearing for a man who was likely to go to jail and who hadn’t yet met his one-month-old son, Judge Amber Wolf struck a blow for decency in a business that it’s not often apparent. Read more →
If you’ve got a few hours to kill today, why don’t you drive to Fargo and buy a freeze pop and a glass of lemonade? Read more →
Someone smarter than a blogger is going to have to explain how a Jerry Garcia ‘Run for the Roses’ cassette tape ends up in the Minnehaha Creek watershed.
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Jareka Bolen decided that she will move in to hospice while she can still make her own decisions, unhook her ventilator and die. But first she wanted to have a big party — a prom, she called it.
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