Bob Collins
I’ll start. Is it that you don’t know how to turn your car’s lights on, Minnesota?
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Paul TostoIt’s not too late to stop the madness, MLB. Stop the carts now! Read more →
Yes, Gov. Mark Dayton has his own monkey story to tell. What did he see? Read more →
Laura McCallum
Gov. Mark Dayton meets today with the state’s golden girl of Nordic skiing, Jessie Diggins. Her Olympic success is bringing some much-needed recognition to the sport’s triumphs and challenges. Read more →
Cody NelsonOfficials say it’s about engaging the community by tossing volunteers in jail for the night. It’ll cost you $40, but you get a complimentary mugshot.
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Tim NelsonIt turns out the old Dayton’s store might not have held the only mummified monkey in Minneapolis. An old movie house monkey giveaway might have gone awry. Read more →
Target had been investigating complaints that customers buying diapers at Targets in Washington, D.C., Florida and Tennessee had recently found white laminated index cards in their order containing a slogan linked to white supremacist groups. Read more →
The Anti-Defamation League says it from Target customers who bought diapers at the store only to open them and find the slogan linked to white supremacist groups written on a laminated index card.
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Nancy YangThe stuffed donkey went missing while 10-year-old William Ihle and his family were traveling on spring break. William has a rare genetic disorder and Eeyore has been his “comfort for every scary crappy thing he has fought since he was 18 months old,” his mother said. Read more →
The Museum of English Rural Life had a little fun on Twitter Monday, and followers rewarded the museum with a collective hug for some comic relief in a social media season where fun is really hard to find. Read more →
Billet families are the bright lights in what can be an unforgiving existence in western Canada’s junior hockey leagues. Their pain is surfacing now in the the days since a semitrailer ripped into a Canadian junior hockey league team bus, killing 15 people. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
I don’t know if I’ve ever read a story that has so haunted me like today’s Star Tribune story of Jon Markle and his wife Mandy Markle, whose daughter drowned in Lake Minnetonka when Jon, who’d had a few drinks, decided it would be fun to drive on the ice. The girl was just 9 months old. Read more →
He was known as the ‘butterfly child’ because his skin was as fragile as a butterfly’s wings. Read more →
If not for Rowland Fowler, the people of Embarrass, Minn., might not have much of a reason to be so darned proud of their little slice of paradise.
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