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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Regional history

Why treaties matter

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 23, 2017, 10:39 AM Nov 23, 2017
5

NPR’s Story Lab project Inter(Nation)al traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to the National Congress of American Indians to talk with tribal leaders, scholars and people in the legal field about these foundational, living documents. Read more →

What’s on MPR News today? 11/23/17

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 23, 2017, 6:45 AM Nov 23, 2017
0

Here are the guests and show topics today on MPR News programming. Read more →

Health

First unaided steps for TV reporter who lost leg in accident

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 22, 2017, 4:40 PM Nov 22, 2017
1

Last September, Fox 9 reporter Courtney Godfrey lost part of her leg while boating on Christmas Lake. The boat’s propeller took her foot off; doctors had to amputate her leg.
Read more →

War

Can a global conscience still be stirred?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 22, 2017, 1:27 PM Nov 22, 2017
7

It is much more difficult now for television — any news outlet, really — to awaken a conscience than it was in 1984. Read more →

This or That

A dreamer prepares for his rocket flight

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 22, 2017, 11:20 AM Nov 22, 2017
31

Sure, go ahead and call Mike Hughes all the names he’s probably heard before but we’re here today to celebrate his passion, an antidote to America’s pervasive can’t-do spirit.
Read more →

Sports

Deer goes hunting for Wisconsin man

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 22, 2017, 10:01 AM Nov 22, 2017
8

Dan Hartley, a Durand, Wis., native, went hunting around Janesville on Saturday, looking for a deer to shoot.

That’s when a deer found him. Read more →

Politics

In poll on sexual harassment, areas of agreement for GOP and Dems

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 22, 2017, 9:04 AM Nov 22, 2017
6

Today’s Quinnipiac Poll on public attitudes toward sexual harassment is fascinating because of the point where Republicans and Democrats depart a similar path. Read more →

Politics

‘Exclusive’ interview with Franken accuser fails to deliver

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 22, 2017, 7:33 AM Nov 22, 2017
21

It’s hard to believe a reporter would go to the bother of setting up a TV interview, and then not get any newsworthy answers to questions that her allegations have raised. Read more →

Education

Zombie Based Learning assignment under fire in Parkers Prairie

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 22, 2017, 7:03 AM Nov 22, 2017
22

Teachers face a constant struggle to make their lessons relatable to their students. An engaged student is an educated student. It’s a form of the ‘by any means necessary’ method of education.

That’s why we have the Zombie Based Learning curriculum. Read more →

What’s on MPR News today? 11/22/17

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 22, 2017, 5:55 AM Nov 22, 2017
3

Here’s a list of topics and guests on MPR News programming today. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Maya Moore tackles prosecutorial reform

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 21, 2017, 1:54 PM Nov 21, 2017
4

There aren’t a lot of athletes who spend their offseason calling attention to prosecutorial misconduct, but the WNBA — unlike almost every other major sports league — seems to encourage its athletes not to “stick to sports.”

The Minnesota Lynx’s Maya Moore shows up this week on Jerry Stackhouse’s online show for The Players Tribune.
Read more →

Sports

In hockey, a state of denial

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 21, 2017, 12:00 PM Nov 21, 2017
15

If the Derek Boogaard’s story wasn’t enough to make hockey fans think again about their glorification of hockey’s “enforcers”, it’s hard to imagine that Stephen Peat’s will be.
Read more →

Arts & Culture

You say ‘flight delay’; in Canada they say ‘let’s party!’

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 21, 2017, 10:18 AM Nov 21, 2017
9

Within the next day or so, millions of Americans will head to the airport. They’ll be in foul moods, anticipating flight delays, shoving against the humanity that dares get on board the plane 20 seconds before they do.

One piece of advice: Be more more like Canada, America. Also: Bring an accordion. Read more →

Health

Health crisis for Moorhead teen, star of ‘Extreme Home Makeover’

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 21, 2017, 9:02 AM Nov 21, 2017
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If there’s a kid you could pull for, it’s Garrett Grommesh of Moorhead, who was born with spina bifida and was just 10 years old in 2010 when the show Extreme Home Makeover showed up in Moorhead to build the family a new home near Concordia College. Read more →

This or That

Crowd behavior prompts cancellation of sneaker sale

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 21, 2017, 8:49 AM Nov 21, 2017
18

These are sneakers. Unless they’re on your feet, they don’t do anything but sit there. They don’t make the coffee so it’s waiting for you when you get up. They won’t dust and vacuum. They won’t repair your broken marriage. They’re just sneakers. And kind of silly looking ones too. Read more →

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