Bob Collins
We have reached the point of winter where some people just give up. Like, perhaps, this person in Minneapolis who has parked his/her car and has gone the full camouflage route. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Weather
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is running out of ways to get through to Minnesota drivers about how to drive in winter, and it’s not as if the department isn’t trying. Today, another snowplow got hit, this time near Brandon, Minn. Read more →
Allen Foster, of Bemidji, says he was too excited to get on Lake of the Woods after getting off work. He never checked the weather, he tells the Bemidji Pioneer, which also has video of the dilemma. Read more →
There’ll be no snow today so we can take a few hours to gather our thoughts and prepare to survive the torture of a few more inches tomorrow. And have you heard it’s going to get ridiculously cold again? Of course you have. Otherwise you wouldn’t be out on that ledge. Read more →
These are tough times in the dairy business, particularly for small operations. But the fact a livelihood is destroyed so quickly by a month of snow reveals the precipice on which many farmers stand. Read more →
Can your summer do this?
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Winter is our meteorological purification. So I squint as I look in the backyard. I can almost see July. And it is good. Read more →
This update from Lake Minnetonka: the ice on Carson’s Bay is safe for whatever you’ve got in mind. Read more →
If weatherpeople gave us a three-day warning about a blizzard (they did), and authorities told drivers in southern Minnesota to stay off the road (they did), why were so many people stranded and had to be rescued by first responders who had to assume the risk of doing so?
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Lee Sjolander, the official police chief of NewsCut City, issued a call to the people of Kenyon on Saturday that should be amplified to every city: Give the snow removal people a break.
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Like the cavalry rescuing the town under siege, MnDOT has been given a hero’s response on Twitter after posting this video of a team of plows tackling I-694 in Maplewood this week. Read more →
Maybe there’s a property line there somewhere and these rules of boundaries must be followed.
Or you can forget that we’ve reached the end of the “isn’t it pretty?” season and the fact the ongoing snow is now bringing out the worst in us and shovel the sidewalk.
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We are intrigued by the self-restraint shown by Minnesota’s and Wisconsin’s Department of Transportation to try to find s Read more →
We are through one round of the great Twin Cities snowball challenge and, so far, St. Paul is wiping its snow-clogged streets with the spiffy neighbor. Read more →
If the school principal can ride a bike to school, calling it off isn’t a good decision.
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