Bob CollinsWest St. Paul officials are being accused of alleged misogyny this week following a raucous debate over the nomination of three people — all of them women — to the city’s Planning Commission.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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In a perfect world, Michelle McNamara, the University of Minnesota journalism grad, would be alive today to see the perp walk man may do in California. She lived determined to see it, she committed the last years of her life to making it happen. Read more →
Drew Cloud has been occasionally quoted as one of the leading ‘experts’ on student loans.
Today, it has been revealed he’s fake. There’s no such person.
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There’s nothing to see here but broken eagle dreams. Read more →
It’s unlikely there’ll be many people on the sidelines in the case of a lawsuit that alleges children have been taken from parents in Minnesota because they were spanked. You’re either for spanking or you’re against it. Read more →
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Early this morning in Detroit, a man climbed to the edge of a bridge over I-696 and threatened to jump.
The highway below was closed and the state police asked 13 truckers to help out. They did. Read more →
Constable Ken Lam didn’t want to shoot Alek Minassian, the man who appears to have been the driver of a van that killed 10 people in Toronto on Monday.
A video shot by bystanders shows Lam ordering Minassian to the ground, Minassian insisting that the constable shoot him. Read more →
This is the time of the year when we wonder why anyone would want to be a teacher in Minnesota. It’s layoff time.
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Every morning, we get an email from the digital bosses at the World Headquarters of NewsCut. It’s the daily page view and “engagement time” for everything that appears on the MPR News website. I don’t pretend to know what most of it means other than it feels better to be at the top of the list from Chartbeat than not on it at all. Read more →
This is the power of human connection, of shared joy, and shared grief, a medical gift to us that removes the scar tissue of the steady drumbeat of the worst of us, for the healthy heart of empathy. Read more →
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South Florida Judge Merrilee Ehrlich retires at 5 p.m. today, after failing to muster up an ounce of human dignity while berating a defendant who was charged with getting into an argument with her daughter. Read more →
It didn’t help Ashlyn Bohrer when her pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon in Minnesota announced he’s leaving for another job, and the local hospital couldn’t attract a new surgeon quickly. So the family had to look for another pediatric heart center and settled on a hospital in Milwaukee.
It turned out to be a good choice. Today, the family got a call. There’s a heart for Ashlyn.
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