Bob CollinsPerhaps it won’t be long before hockey acknowledges what is increasingly becoming clear: constant hits damage the brain. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in the Obama administration, the woes of insurance companies and premium-paying customers have always been front-page news as the shock-to-the-system health care law gets implemented.
But what’s this? The non-profit insurance companies in Minnesota have made a ton of money in the last year. Read more →
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The Cleveland media spent much of the weekend complaining that the Minnesota Twins didn’t build a domed ballpark, thanks to a stiff wind and 37 degree temperatures for the opening series of the 2019 baseball stadium. Read more →
The Columbine High School shooting 20 years ago this month is the massacre that started the wave of mass shootings in the modern crime era.
We’ve come a long way since then and many shootings never make it to the front page; they’re that common now. Read more →
‘We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside. He took a hammer to the windshield,’ Michael Rich, a pediatrician and director of the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital. Read more →
Dolly Bauer, formerly of Durand, Wis., has dementia now and lives at a memory care facility in Eau Claire. Music and dance brings her back from the fog of Alzheimer’s. Read more →
Sometimes you get up in the morning and think there’s no hope in the world.
Today is not one of those days. Read more →
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Officer Joshua Bradley, a rookie on the Austin, Minn., police department couldn’t resist a challenge last week when he saw Taige Iverson, who runs 100 meter hurdles, practicing with her high school teammates.
Bradley did OK for an old guy of 21. Read more →
For obvious reasons, journalists get a lot more worked up about changes in the Associated Press Stylebook — the defacto writing guide for newspeople — than normal people, but occasionally a change signals a cultural or ethical shift in a buttoned-down profession. Read more →
The Boston Globe says vets are seeing more cases of people giving their dogs marijuana to treat what ails them. Read more →
Since 2001, Alice Jahnke has made 55 afghans, 831 caps and 405 bonnets for people who are undergoing radiation at Alomere Health in Alexandria, Minn. Read more →
Todd Palmer, an athletic director at Brown High School in Sturgis, S.D., was pretty excited that his daughter would be playing in the NCAA Sweet 16 basketball tournament for the South Dakota Jackrabbits in Portland, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader says. Just one problem: he couldn’t go. Read more →
It was pretty tough finding news and information on TV monitors at La Crosse Airport on Thursday, what with the monitors showing pornographic video and all, according to reports. Read more →