Well here’s something you don’t see every day. A helicopter with no rotor blades. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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Look, people, how many times do we need to say it? If you’re going to park your car and run into a store, crack the window so your pigs don’t suffocate. Read more →
Barack Obama, 57, has got a lot of time left in the role of former president so he decided to adopt a new role yesterday at a children’s hospital in Washington. Because what else is a former president going to do on a Wednesday? Read more →
It’s unlikely the Bayfield County (Wis.) Sheriff’s Office will get much help in its search for the hunters who cleaned and gutted deer, then tossed the carcasses on a road in Cable on Saturday. These kinds of hunters tend not to associate with the decent folk. Read more →
It’s been awhile since we talked about “dibs”, the curious — and somewhat eccentric — practice of declaring as yours, that which is not yours.
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The weekend tear-duct check came from Shirley Wang, who told the story on WBUR’s Only a Game broadcast about her dad, a cat litter scientist in Muscatine, Iowa who somehow became Charles Barkley’s friend. Read more →
Not much has worked to stem the tide of distracted and dangerous driving. By now everyone has heard the warnings, but a glance over in either lane on your way home or to work on your next commute will likely tell you all you need to know about whether anyone’s listening.
So people probably won’t pay much attention to Bruce Benson, who was 16 when he killed his best friend 30 years ago. Read more →
The time might be up for turkeys in Ashwaubenon after one chased a little kid down the street, forcing a woman to intervene. Read more →
It was just another day in New Jersey this morning when an armored truck spilled money over the highway in East Rutherford.
People risked being hit by cars to pick up a few dollars.
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Your daily dose of sweetness today comes the Star Tribune’s James Walsh, who has been telling us the story of Bones over the years with compassion and humanity. Read more →
We had some time to kill today while watching — and enjoying, frankly — lawmakers and President Trump argue out in the open as if there’s more than one branch of government. So we looked around the room and we have takeaways . Read more →
For sure, the business is hard economically, and has been since Marconi. But over the years its method of advancement also provided networks with a steady stream of seasoned journalists. Only the best survived the winnowing process. Read more →
Newspeople can get a bad rap. Sometimes they deserve it. For sure, it’s difficult to condense a lot of information into the bite-sized morsels that result in local TV news. But sometimes, the telling can do immense damage, particular if journalists think that every story must have a good guy and a bad guy.
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Nobody is in a more precarious position in assessing a person who hasn’t been buried yet than the nation’s journalists, as NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen makes clear this week in her column. Read more →
It’d be OK with us if Brendan Evans’ idea catches on and becomes a holiday sensation; the world can use a little of whatever he’s having. Read more →