Bob CollinsEver since the city of Saint Paul started wooing a grocery store for downtown that would scream ‘upscale,’ plenty of people have wondered what would happen to the grocery that doesn’t. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The jobs we do
Patsy checks out, Adrian Peterson’s failure, making it OK to talk about mental illness, marinating in the online comment muck, and why do people want to get married amid cows? Read more →
The narrative that people don’t want vocational jobs doesn’t seem to be supported by the number of trained people still having difficulty find them.
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“From where I stand, teachers are the last line of defense against the tyranny of the 1 percent.” That line in a speech during the annual Education Minnesota conference last week put Megan Olivia Hall, the state’s teacher of the year, in the line of fire. Hall, a grade 7-12 science teacher at Open World Read more →
The day terrorists hit a lucky shot, with this ring she brought jobs to Minnesota, the failure of the railroad vision, the Star Tribune Bachmann editorial, and the people who wash windows. Read more →
On Sunday (12-1 p.m.), I’ll be hosting a Q&A at the MPR booth at the State Fair with Chris Worthington, the managing director of regional news at Minnesota Public Radio. To my knowledge, the event is not being broadcast, you can’t call in with a question. If you’re not going to the Fair on Sunday, Read more →
There’s always someone to tell you you can’t do something. There are people who will listen to them. And people who won’t. Pete Gustin reads copy for a living, even though he’s legally blind. He just put a video together explaining how he does it.
Haven’t heard Officer Javier Pagan’s story of the Boston Marathon bombing? You should. Read more →
Small-town newspaper fold because there aren’t enough people who care about people’s dreams and the places they’re going. Read more →
A region stops to honor the dead of Yarnell Hill. Read more →
Nate Minor
Turner Barr has been traveling around the world for six years, funding his adventures by working along the way. His blog Around the World in 80 Jobs offers tips and documented his travels, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxBhZlaIrJc It was a great success. Then Adecco, a multinational human resources company, started using “Around the World in Read more →
Over the years, I’ve passed along posts from “Sam,” a fully-unnamed regional airline pilot out of Minneapolis who writes the “Blogging at FL250” blog about his life as an airline pilot. I didn’t know his last name until today, when Flying Magazine published Sam Weigel’s article, “A Day in the Life of an RJ Pilot.” Read more →
The letter carrier has left the building
Anyone who has spent any time watching the light-rail construction in the Twin Cities probably understands the artistic side of construction workers.