Bob Collins
We often spotlight the many cross-country trips that people make to draw attention to a greater good. This morning, the leader of one of them is dead because a woman couldn’t wait to see what was on her phone. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
People doing good
Nothing can pep up a little home state pride like a group of bicyclists from the East Coast riding through Minnesota.
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When Lucas Hobbs, 12, of Eagan was at Children’s Hospital being treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he had trouble eating. He was in the hospital for 40 days. Then he decided what wish he’s ask Make a Wish for.
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There’s something particularly delightful about a dirt road, an old Lutheran church on the prairie and a few dozen tractors.
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The Internet should do that thing it does so well and help David and Jessica Daughtery get a job. Read more →
Being a cop was a good life for Brooklyn Center police commander Brian Peters. So this week he gave away the money he earned on his last day on the job. Read more →
With all the glorification of war that takes place during the nation’s sporting events, maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea if a sports team around here pays homage to guy wearing a banana outfit while riding a Segway.
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Nicolas Winton has died, and if you don’t recognize the name, you might recognize this unbelievable moment from a video that raced around the Internet a few years ago. Read more →
When you’re riding a bicycle across the entire United States — from Baltimore to Seattle — this has got to be an uplifting sight — the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wis.
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When you live in Underwood, Minn., and a Congo African Grey Parrot shows up on your deck for no particular reason, you don’t turn away. There aren’t a lot of Congo African Grey Parrot in the Underwood flyways. Read more →
In Wisconsin, Jack Maier buys billboard space to keep what happened to his wife from happening to other people, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Read more →
When a 6-year-old boy lost a stuffed animal, Tony D’Aiuto, who runs the operations center at Tampa Airport, did what more of us should: He went to extremes to make the day a little nicer for someone having a bad day. Read more →
Braden Gandee, of Temperance, Mich., was born at 32 weeks with cerebral palsy. He can’t walk.
So his brother, Hunter, carries him on his back. Everywhere. Read more →
With the Minnesota Twins in Boston to face the Red Sox yesterday, it was the perfect time for Eden Stone of West Roxbury, Mass., to meet Paula Kelly of St. Paul.
Next Tuesday they’ll meet each other again — inside Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital when Eden will get one of Paula’s kidneys. Read more →
It’s duckling rescue season. The small fowl aren’t real smart when it comes to storm sewers so they tend to fall in with great regularity. And we’re still a people who will go out of our way to rescue them. Read more →