Bob CollinsIt’s been a few days since opponents of bike lanes in Minneapolis showed up at a protest that basically mocked them and we still can’t decide who ‘won’ the day: The ‘internet prankster’ who created the fake protest event or the people who turned it into a real protest.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The American news media is wasting its time informing the country’s citizens. Read more →
The stories being told as part of the #MeToo hashtag have been gut wrenching and should be an embarrassment to any man. Read more →
Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback, is one of Wisconsin’s economic engines.
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At best, perhaps, there might be an argument that changing the name of Lake Calhoun could be inconvenient for people who are simply used to the name. But this barely registers a blip on the inconvenience scale from zero to the Trail of Tears.
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John Manuel, who has been editor-in-chief and writing scouting reports and report cards for Baseball America for two decades , announced today that he’s been hired by the Minnesota Twins. Read more →
Marc Faber, known as ‘Dr. Doom’ on CNBC and other financial media, where he too often is called upon to dispense his analysis, includes this line in his latest newsletter, Gloom, Doom, & Boom Report: ‘I am not a racist.’
Marc Faber is a racist. Read more →
Harvey Djerf, 95, of Plymouth, Minn., likes to walk every day but 95-year-olds can’t walk far before requiring a rest.
So in his neighborhood now, random chairs have appeared along driveways and lawns, KARE 11 reports.
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The celebration of the eelpout usually involves a fair amount of drinking and trashing the ice on Walker Bay on Leech Lake.
But in recent years, there’ve been plenty of indications local authorities have tired of the mess. And this year the Cass County Sheriff’s Office restricted vehicle access on the ice, which angered the festival attendees who insisted the ice was plenty safe. Read more →
Dave Ratner says he didn’t know exactly why he was invited to the Oval Office last week and if he had known President Trump was going to kneecap the Affordable Care Act and people’s health care, he wouldn’t have shown up. Read more →
A business official in Wisconsin says it’s time to change the state’s ‘America’s Dairyland’ slogan to something better. He thinks ‘Forward’ is better. Read more →
News blogs come and most every news blog in the Twin Cities eventually goes. This is the last of them.
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I suspect Rachel Martin’s old classmate will one day, too, come to this point of comfort, though it remains a tragedy of time that it takes us so long for the realization to come that we all fit in. Read more →
It will be some time, of course, before federal investigators release the cause of the plane crash near Ramsey last evening, in which a Cessna plunged into the Mississippi River. But the Star Tribune’s report from a witness provides a huge clue about why it happened. Read more →
The differences between the cities and suburbs are fading away. Cities are the new suburbs. And suburbs are the new cities. Read more →