Bob CollinsThe Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has been protesting the pipeline, fearing it could destroy the tribe’s water. The pipeline was rerouted from north of Bismarck because of environmental concerns there. The tribe says the construction will destroy sacred ground.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Regional history
My hometown’s historic buildings are now a testament to an economy that longer works for people; Minneapolis’ disappearing history is a testament to an economy that does. Read more →
The Duluth News Tribune reports the wreckage of the Antelope, a schooner that went down with its load of coal in 1897, has been found and it’s ‘spectacularly intact.’
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Is there a town in Minnesota with more character and history than Bovey? Read more →
You must have to be a patient and forgiving sort to live near Roseau, on Minnesota’s northern border. People there have to put up with things we non-border people take for granted. The freedom to move around America, for example.
It took an around-the-country trip by a California teacher to tell me something about my adopted state that I didn’t know. There’s an airport in Minnesota on which a runway spans two countries, surrounded by some unwelcoming feds. Read more →
When you move to the Midwest, it doesn’t take long to appreciate the sentries that stand watch in our communities. Read more →
If there was a nuclear core of my childhood, it was probably the Woolworth’s store on Main Street in my hometown, which sat next to a W.T. Grant, which was across the street from an S.S. Kresge.
My home milltown had a vibrant downtown and if you were a kid with a couple of pennies, which you might have lifted from your mother’s purse and still won’t say out loud, you headed for Woolworth’s.
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Ilhan Omar’s victory over Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary is the kind of story that seems to resonate with Minnesota voters, just like Mee Moua, another trailblazing woman who has a similar story.
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He was surrounded by family and white pine, Aaron J. Brown writes this afternoon in a wonderfully touching memorial. Read more →
It’s hard not to imagine what the family might have contributed to a better Iron Range had his family spent more than a year in the Iron Range town on his way to a better life. Read more →
There was a lot of sentimentality as I browsed social networks on Wednesday night during President Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, which naturally allowed me to think about how I’ll remember the last eight years. Read more →
Where’s the spirit of Kinney, Minnesota when we really need it? Read more →
Unable to reconcile all of this on the question, I’m comfortable dropping the phrase in recognition that it can obscure a more important point: we’ve been really good at killing innocent people in this country for a long, long time.
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Vietnam didn’t get Gary Bipes, of Hector,Minn. The CIA didn’t get Bipes. And a knoll in a farmer’s field in Glencoe didn’t get Bipes. Mosquitoes almost did. Read more →
What propels people to living in Minnesota’s Northwest Angle, that 1783 mistake that put a chunk of Canada in Minnesota? Read more →