Bob CollinsA commission member urged the full board to oppose any Super Bowl-bound planes landing in Brainerd until the NFL enforces its rule requiring players to stand during the National Anthem. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Next to spam and robocalls, there’s not much that can rile up consumers more than the questionable operators of websites who buy up event tickets and scalp them.
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Karl Dorfner, of West Allis, Wis., was trying to be a good father when he showed up at his son’s child support hearing. That’s something more than his son, also named Karl, has going for him, apparently. Read more →
Jason Moszer, a Fargo police officer, was just 33 years old when he was shot to death answering a domestic disturbance call in February 2016. He left behind a wife and two children. Read more →
I am told that a member of the MPR News audience called the newsroom today to scold the organization for not indicating that the Minnesota Lynx are the most successful professional franchise in Minnesota sports history.
At least until this time next year, there’s a good reason for that: they’re not.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar said she was ready for NPR Morning Edition host David Greene’s obvious question this morning after she outlined her plan for government oversight of part of the Internet. Read more →
It might be easy to dismiss the comments of an NFL quarterback toward a female sportswriter this week. He’s a football player and you know how they are. Locker room talk. Read more →
Who among us hasn’t wanted to pour something on the head of the boss? Read more →
In Michigan, parents are allowed to avoid having their children immunized if it conflicts with their religious or personal beliefs.
But Rebecca Bredow is going to jail anyway because she reneged on a deal with her ex-husband to have their 9-year-old son vaccinated. Read more →
By most accounts Thomas Sonnenberg was a Good Samaritan; that’s how Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman characterized him at a press conference, and that’s how most media in the Twin Cities characterized him.
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City Pages today has the story behind this photo, posted to Twitter last week, of a man hitting the hottest new club in the Twin Cities: an empty I-35W. Read more →
‘I’m a Second Amendment person. The weapon didn’t do it. It was the person behind it,’ the man said at his daughter’s bedside.
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A Prairie Home Companion and its various guests and stars would’ve been mere marooned nobodies without Russ Ringsak; he drove the truck, known to hard-core APHC fans as ‘Hank’. He was one of the original members of the troupe, and in many ways the only thing that distinguished his talent from Garrison Keillor’s was a CDL.
Ringsak died today, Prairie Home Productions confirmed. Read more →
Louie Spray, of Rice Lake, Wis., once owned the Wisconsin musky record — three times. His picture disappeared from a Milwaukee diner where it had occupied a place of honor over a urinal. Read more →
Fewer words ever written were more accurate than these: Life is not fair. Read more →