Bob Collins
In about a month, this is going to be the most popular team in the state of hockey, which is saying something considering that’s nearly the time when the NHL playoffs. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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In a ‘it’s every person for himself’ era, looking out for each other is still a pretty grand attitude, as an act in Minneapolis on Friday proves. Read more →
That tender Comcast tribute to Jesse Diggins hometown of Afton appears to actually be Stillwater. Read more →
How do you know someone at the Olympics is doping.
They wear T-shirts that say ‘I Don’t Do Doping.’
Also, they’re Russian athletes. Read more →
A Quad Cities woman has become the first to wear a hijab while reporting full-time for a mainstream American TV station. Read more →
The Brainerd Dispatch reports that mostly boys — big shock — are mimicking ‘obscene and disturbing behavior’ in the video series. Symptoms apparent include Jeffy’s signature moves of fondling his crotch and humping a box of Cheerios.
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The last thing teachers and students need right now is some guy walking into buildings, past the administration area where he’s supposed to sign in, into his kid’s classroom and handing the teacher a cardboard gun. Read more →
A review of how two news executives sexually harassed their way through NPR this week results in the execs getting a full vote of confidence. Read more →
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School districts are caught in the middle in an upcoming national protest against school shootings. And they do not agree on how it should be handled. Read more →
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From all indications, Newsweek is exhibiting a death rattle this week.
It started when the magazine retracted its story suggesting that ‘bots’ took down Sen. Al Franken. Read more →
That old joke about Minnesotans being willing to give you directions to anywhere but their home is case aside by a lovely story in the Star Tribune about two families that have eaten together once a week for 30 years. Read more →
There’s a war going on inside the brain of 26-year-old Sioux Falls school teacher Katie Blunck. Either that one or the one she’s waging with an insurance company could kill her. Read more →