Bob CollinsMark Conditt was portrayed by authorities as not motivated by hatred, but was upset about his life, so he sent package bombs to people, all of whom happened to be black. Did journalists go along with that depiction because they’re mostly white and Christian, too? The New York Times says ‘no.’ Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Devonte Hart was just 12 years old when he was distraught over a grand jury’s 2014 decision not to indict a Ferguson, Mo., cop for the killing of Michael Brown. He was crying as he stood at a demonstration in Portland, Oregon with a “free hugs” sign when a police officer asked if he could Read more →
Toxic chemicals, bad social networking, good mutts, fallen debris from space, and opening day. Read more →
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When your team is playing a big game, you can’t let the fact you don’t know the person who owns the home you’re barging into to watch get in the way. Read more →
There is a grace around Richard Phillips that one often sees in people who have been wrongfully convicted and had their lives stolen by a system that, too often, doesn’t work. Read more →
The threat of war in the world has eased considerably today.
There is peace in the ‘Circle Me, Bert’ standoff. Read more →
This tweet this morning from conservative talk show host Erick Erickson is yet another example of just how polarized and hypocritical the nation has become. Read more →
Tomorrow marks the unofficial national holiday that isn’t anymore: baseball’s opening day.
It’s a spring tradition, of course. Here’s another: Red Bull disguising Chicago Cubs star Kris Bryant and sending him out to see what the little people are up to. Read more →
We’ve never met a state climatologist we didn’t like — or any climatologist for that matter — and we suspect Harry Hillaker would continue the streak. Alas, he’s retiring as Iowa’s climatologist, the Des Moines Register says. There’s something comforting about seeing the state’s climatology records are kept in file cabinets… on paper. So old Read more →
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No baseball institution is safe. Read more →
Singer Andy Grammer and his band, which is playing at the Music Hall tonight, had a performance to make before his concert in Minneapolis: the home of a fan with colon cancer who was too sick to make it to the show.
The show came to him yesterday. Read more →
In a perfect world, someone will lift Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, wheelchair and all, to cut down the net after Loyola wins the NCAA basketball championship next week. Non-fans would be hard pressed to name any of the teams left in the annual celebration of college basketball but the world loves the devoted and loyal and Read more →
The Duluth City Council has become ground zero in Minnesota for the debate over whether businesses should be required to provide paid sick leave.
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