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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tybre Faw, of Tennessee, is 10. He’s in the fourth grade. He knows who John Lewis is, which probably puts him ahead of a lot of fourth graders. On the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, he traveled to Selma to meet a civil rights hero. Read more →
The state Senate is moving to close a loophole in the state’s sexual conduct law which grants an exception to people who grab someone’s butt as long as they still have their clothes on. Read more →
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In their lawsuit, four people allege the Department of Commerce doesn’t do enough to unite people with their unclaimed money, and that the state doesn’t pay interest on the money it keeps that is later returned to owners. Under the state’s law, only the principal has to be returned once the money’s owner is found.++ Read more →
It’s Wednesday confession day so allow me to unburden my tortured soul. I’d put red light cameras at every traffic light in Minnesota. I don’t care if the person driving isn’t the person who gets the ticket. I’ve seen too many close calls with people who just had to get to the next red light 30 seconds sooner, risking death and injury to everyone else on the road.
The same goes for speed traps. I’d run one on I-94 in the East Metro all day and night and I’d use the newfangled cameras for them too. Read more →
It took a Massachusetts school superintendent to do what a girls basketball coach could not: apologize for running up the score in a sectional playoff game.
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Joseph Francis Fernkes, 62, of Willmar, got off with about a $430 fine when he acknowledged being the person who put a pig’s foot on table at a farmer’s market display being staffed by Somalis.
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Every now and again, a day comes along with a letter to the editor that you know is going to set the world ablaze.
Today is that day.
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No matter how much we may love winter, this is the time of the year where even a moderate dumping of snow can send us over the edge.
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Norm Ornstein, a Minnesota native, writes in the New York Times today about his son, ill served by a mental health system that does not serve those who are too ill to know that they need help. Read more →
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Just in the time between when Forbes released its annual ranking of billionaires today, and lunch time, Glen Taylor’s worth increased by another $100 million, according to Forbes. And he’s not even close to being the richest man in Minnesota. Read more →
To counterbalance the post earlier of a dead dog and the guy who shot it, we give you the men and women of the North Reading (Mass., of course) police and fire departments, who took charge when a woman brought her choking Saint Bernard puppy into the station. Read more →
A panic attack during a November game changed the way the ex-Timberwolves player thinks about mental health. Read more →