Bob Collins
Of all the stranger things in the world, few mysteries are as hot right now as how a 1980’s Science Museum of Minnesota sweatshirt ended up with Dustin on Stranger Things 2, a series set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
We can now add Halloween to life’s pressures, another sign that the apocalypse is upon us.
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There are really only two ways to enjoy the World Series. One is to actually buy a ticket and be at the game. The other is to to work the third shift somewhere and watch it on TV.
Once again last night — or was it this morning? — the game ended with late action in a 13-to-12 Houston victory over the Dodgers.
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It’s believed to be the oldest ballroom in the state, tracing its ancestry to 1928, when Ben and Anna Zahler built the place. They sold it to their son and for several decades it served as a popular polka venue as one Zahler generation sold it to the next. Read more →
At Boston University’s annual pumpkin drop, pumpkins land on a canvas, which is then hung on a wall in the physics departent as a testament to the scientific fact that not everything has to be about something. Read more →
It’s time for the Last Man Club of Luverne, Minn., to drink up. Warren Herreid, one of its most noteworthy members, died yesterday. He was 96.
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You can do a lot worse than being a 91-year-old man in Erhard, Minn. (pop. 149), at least if your name is Windy Ferm. Read more →
All the usual elements are there in the latest twist in the ongoing debate in this country over protest and expression: the kid who sits during the Pledge of Allegiance, the one who stands while wearing an American flag T-shirt, the assumption of authority to teach a little respect, as the person who posted the video from Winter Mills High School in Westminster, Md., characterized it. Read more →
Every now and again, we need a recalibration of our consideration of things that are important. Usually it involves a story about how outrageously unfair life is.
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In Marshfield, Wis., a 38-year-old man went to the local Kwik Trip shortly before midnight to buy beer but somehow locked himself inside the cooler. He decided to spend the night drinking beer. Read more →
Residents of a 30-unit apartment complex are being thrown out because too many police calls came from residents there. Not all residents, probably, but everyone goes because the city has yanked the rental permit of the building owner. Read more →
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland released more research in Nature that provides further evidence that the universe shouldn’t exist, which, of course, only makes the question ‘why are we here, then?’ all the more confounding. Read more →
The rules are the rules and it doesn’t matter if Emily Nash, 16, of Lunenburg, Ma., beat all the boys by four strokes in a high school golf tournament. She doesn’t get the trophy for winning the tournament, nor the right to advance to a state tournament for winning the tournament she won, but didn’t. Read more →
Typically, reporters and news organizations are reluctant to turn over unpublished notes and recordings when the justice system demands they do so.
But in the case surrounding the death of a man in a fight outside a bar in May, the Fargo Forum is making an exception. Read more →
Bara Raa Gregoire was throwing out some trash at the dumpster in Lutsen yesterday morning when she discovered two pretty happy bears. Read more →