Bob Collins
Despite increasing knowledge of how the game is scrambling the brains of its players and the political fallout from protests for racial equity, football appears to be surviving just fine.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
We can learn a lot from dogs. Read more →
Radio people of a certain age get accustomed to departures. It’s the nature of the business. Long before the “gig economy” became a thing, radio was one giant gig economy. People come, people go, the institution moves on as if they’d never been there at all. Read more →
2018 is off to a lousy start. Piper the airport dog is dead. Read more →
The man who helped coin the phrase doesn’t like it anymore. Read more →
The battleground for the tribal fighting that’s consuming America is the TV and America’s businesses are increasingly joining the fighting by picking which TV channel they show their waiting customers: Fox, MSNBC, or CNN. Lifetime Fitness wants out of the battle. Read more →
Here’s a list of guests and topics you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Around 1955 or so, Warren ‘Bud’ Bushway put up the American flag on a spiffy new pole outside his home in St. Louis Park.
For 59 years, he raised and lowered the flag each day on Cedar Lake Road. Read more →
The first days of January are an inspiring time when new political leaders take their shot at changing the world. In Cincinnati today, Tamaya Dennard took the oath of office for the City Council. Read more →
There is no more helpless feeling in the world than being the parent of an adult child.
We raise them, we let them go. Sometimes they fly and sometimes they crash and die. Our human instinct, however, does not allow us to take such an intellectual approach to the realities of life. They’re our children, after all. Read more →
The last Delta/Northwest 747 jet to fly into Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport to great fanfare last month made its last flight today, a trip from Atlanta to a boneyard in Arizona where it will be stripped and left to become dust in the desert. Read more →
Fact: There is nothing better in a Minnesota winter than an outdoor ice rink. Read more →
Minnesota has a well-deserved reputation for transparent government but it’s not beyond being sneaky and keeping its citizens in the dark when it comes to spending their money for private business. Read more →
We made it three days into the new year before we got our first ‘stupid airline passenger tricks’ entry. Read more →
Here’s a list of topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →