Bob Collins
John Krenick, of St. Paul, has lost again, and so, too, has everyone trying to store old cars on their own property in violation of Minnesota law. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Who among us hasn’t thought, ‘my life would be complete if I only had half a bridge to call my own’? Here’s our chance. Read more →
A couple in Wisconsin faced every bride and groom’s nightmare.
Nick Eckes’ mother and grandmother were killed in a wrong-way crash on State 57 in Appleton while on their way to the wedding rehearsal and traditional rehearsal dinner. Read more →
A critics screening is due out in two weeks. Quenemoen isn’t sure he’s got that much time. Read more →
The apologists for sexual harassment were immediately out in force, questioning why NPR should suspend a person for something he did 20 years ago. Even questioning how a man could ‘slip his tongue’ into a woman’s mouth without a little bit of help. Disgusting, anyone? Read more →
The AP’s reporting leaves just one big mystery: Why did they make it all up? Read more →
Gophers men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino doesn’t want to know what you think about him or his team during the season. So his Twitter account is going dark until March. Read more →
Everything portraying the frustration and uselessness in efforts to curb drunk driving in Minnesota was on display in a courtroom in Le Center Monday when Kimberly Stangler got a year in jail for killing a motorcyclist last October.
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In Pillager, Minn., Noah Brogle, 16, loves recycling more than high school football.
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Maybe there was a time when dressing up as a Ku Klux Klan member would have earned some scorn, but, at least in Horace, N.D. (southwest of Fargo), those days are apparently over. Read more →
Generations are growing up now, having no idea of the glue that people like Erickson and his long-time radio partner Charlie Boone, provided to make a community a community. But generations of people, also declining in number, did. At one point, half of all radios in Minnesota were tuned to WCCO. Read more →
You’re living a pretty good life in rural New Hampshire, the foliage is beautiful, the scenery along the river is lovely, and then it starts raining and doesn’t quit and, the next thing you know, your house is floating away until it’s destroyed by a bridge. Read more →
Adam Mohammed Amer figured to be like a lot of five-year-old kids who are invited to visit the cockpit of an airliner, in this case Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi.
You know how this goes: Give the kid a look, and watch him be amazed.
It didn’t turn out that way. The kid probably could’ve flown the plane. Read more →
Calm down, Wisconsin. Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb are not on fire.
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Americans are not particularly financially literate, and that may be a help to Republicans who are trying to get a tax “reform” package through Congress.
We tend not to save for retirements and with the proposed lowering of the contribution limit to $2,400 for 401(k) plans, that’s not going to be a situation that’ll improve. Read more →