Bob CollinsMark Kennedy was only 20 months into the job when he applied for an opening for president at the University of Central Florida, a job that paid more and wasn’t located in Grand Forks. If you’re going to apply for a job 20 months after getting one in North Dakota, you better get it. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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About 200 Colonial wannabees showed up over the weekend to practice for the annual recreation of the battles of April 19, 1775,using their muskets, which many of them insist is not a gun.
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The days of political rhetoric that can lift us up are over in the United States, but today, the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., is a good day to remember one of the finest speeches ever delivered in the colonies. Read more →
There was a time when broadcasters were limited in the number and location of broadcast properties they could own. Now, we’re seeing why. Read more →
In Hutchinson, Minn., the City Council holds a moment of silence if pastors aren’t available to provide an invocation for meetings. Read more →
This tweet this morning from conservative talk show host Erick Erickson is yet another example of just how polarized and hypocritical the nation has become. Read more →
Some anglers think muskies destroy the walleye population so the bills would give counties veto power over lakes where the DNR stocks muskies and puts a moratorium on plans to expand lakes with muskie.
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So savage — even by today’s standards — was Zell Miller’s attack on Democrats that even the White House distanced itself from it. Miller and his wife were removed from the list of dignitaries scheduled to sit in the president’s box when Bush gave his acceptance speech a few nights later at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Read more →
Sex ads sites are shutting down en masse after Congress this week passed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, which makes website liable for hosting content that could lead to trafficking.
There’s a limit to free speech and this is but the latest example.
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At the rate of Minnesota’s progress, the sun will burn out before its citizens get to see what happens in the state’s courts. Read more →
Really, since Paul Wellstone and Jesse Ventura (both iconic ads produced by the same ad agency), when’s the last time there was a memorable political ad around here that you’d want to drop what you’re doing to watch?
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‘This is a change we hope was inadvertent, and we’re going to lobby hard to get it corrected,’ the chief legal officer of Major League Baseball tells the New York Times. Read more →
Anyone who travels on a freeway knows that almost nobody drives the speed limit and the lefthand lane gets plugged with people going a little over the speed limit, followed closely — and I do mean closely — by people going a lot over the speed limit. Read more →
‘Thirty-one years ago, I was 19, pregnant and scared,’ Christina St. Germaine had just told the Council. ‘I had a miscarriage. I wasn’t able to take time off for work to care for myself to prevent the miscarriage nor post-miscarriage.’
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Journalists haven’t yet figured out how to properly report on politics in American in 2018. News organizations report ‘fake news’ because politicians are making fake news and their job is to report what politicians are doing. And what politicians are doing is distracting, misinforming, and deceiving the nation. Read more →