Bob CollinsWe don’t get many news stories anymore about UFO sightings, nor do we have many colorful local personalities anymore who have the nerve to propose the building of a landing strip for UFOs. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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We have two bucket lists: One we have a chance of completing; one that is unlikely. On the latter is the RAGBRAI, the great annual bike “race” across Iowa, which is now underway. Read more →
Half of the newspapers reporters and editors are being eliminated in an oh-so-American-workplace way today. They’ve been told to go back to their cubicle farms and wait for the email which will tell them whether they’re staying or going. Read more →
The big aviation fly-in in Oshkosh opened this morning over in Oshkosh, Wis.
For one week each year, the airport becomes THE busiest airport in the world. Read more →
Two women fed their babies at a swimming pool in Mora this week and that’s the sort of thing that people call the cops on in Mora.
Sit tight, Mora. You’re about to get a pool full of nursing women. Read more →
Dogs. Am I right? Read more →
If the hogs in Mankato were smart, they’d have made a run for it today when the semi they were in crashed on highway 169. Read more →
If people want something, who the heck are bureaucrats to tell people they can’t have it? Read more →
Lemonade stands? So yesterday. Some kids in West St. Paul are selling comics. Their own comics. Read more →
The actuarial tables can be your friend when deciding how much work you want to put into creating the perfect lawn. When you’re young — and, perhaps, stupid — you have all the time in the world to believe that your lawn is a statement about you. As time is running out, you begin to realize that dandelions and crabgrass were here before you, and they’re going to be there long after you become tomorrow’s mulch. Read more →
Earl Wilkinson at the Dallas Morning News took a ride on one the other night and ended up using Uber, because he had to get to the hospital emergency room. Read more →
There are two types of people on the planet: the ones who look up when an airplane flies over and the ones who don’t. Read more →
It didn’t take long for the lives to change for winners of a lottery in Nova Scotia. Read more →
The newspaper business is plenty hard, harder still when it services one town of 764 (Raymond, Minn.) and another of 497 (Prinsburg, Minn.)
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We mourn the passing of Zsa Zsa, who got her moment on the world stage before leaving this world.
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