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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Health

In obit, a call to recognize a mental health & addiction crisis

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2017, 3:12 PM Sep 28, 2017
4

Sergei Neubauer’s obituary doesn’t say so specifically, but his struggle, like most against depression and mental illness, was brave and courageous. His short life was amazing. And so too, obviously, were the two people in Iowa who agreed to be his parents when he was 11.
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Education

6-year-old takes a knee during Pledge of Allegiance

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2017, 11:36 AM Sep 28, 2017
61

If you don’t want to take part in the Pledge of Allegiance in the Pasco School District in Florida, you’ll need a note from your parents.

So when a 6-year-old took a knee during the Pledge, he got an admonishment from his teacher. Read more →

This or That

When a clown votes

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 3:18 PM Sep 27, 2017
13

A clown showed up to vote in a primary election Boston on Tuesday. So people called the cops. Read more →

Politics · Sports

Wanted: The Vikings tickets you were going to burn

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 1:30 PM Sep 27, 2017
20

A few NFL fans are posting videos of burning tickets in response to the NFL player protest of racial inequality in America. A former Vikings QB is offering real cash for them.
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Education · Sports

Three years of losing ends in Roseau

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 10:39 AM Sep 27, 2017
2

It takes special kids to show up for practice every day when you’ve gone your entire high school career without winning a game. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Education

Report: State board says it’s not its job to report sexual misconduct of teachers

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 9:03 AM Sep 27, 2017
12

The Minnesota Board of Teaching reportedly has been aware of allegations of sexual misconduct of teachers, but has not told law enforcement authorities of several cases because it doesn’t have a responsibility to. Read more →

This or That

Obit: The truck farmer’s wife

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 8:34 AM Sep 27, 2017
1

A good obituary not only reveals the person who has died, it also provides a regional history lesson.

That’s the case today with the obituary of Harriet Lazaroff, which appears in today’s Star Tribune. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Wednesday Morning Rouser

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 7:45 AM Sep 27, 2017
2

‘When I finished in the NFL, I came out to my family. When I said those words for the first [time], when I said that I was gay, it was like this huge mountain just crumbled,’ former Minnesota Vikings player Esera Tuaolo said this week on NBC’s ‘The Voice’. Read more →

Sports

Minnesota Twins are baseball’s best story

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 7:01 AM Sep 27, 2017
35

The Minnesota Twins have the Cleveland Indians, currently the best team in the American League, right where they want them. Read more →

Health · Politics

Health care bill dead, Kimmel takes a victory lap

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 6:30 AM Sep 27, 2017
38

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel pretty much led the lobbying effort against the latest version of the bill to repeal the health insurance law in the United States. Last night he took a victory lap, declaring it dead. “I haven’t been this happy about something being dead since [Osama] bin Laden,” Kimmel said, calling Tuesday Read more →

Crime and Justice

Lots of drunk driving, but little outrage as the toll mounts in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2017, 3:49 PM Sep 26, 2017
23

It’s been a big week for drunks on the highway. Every week is in Minnesota and many other locations where the slaughter of innocent people hardly registers a blip anymore. Read more →

People doing good

During wedding photo shoot, groom saves child from drowning

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2017, 1:52 PM Sep 26, 2017
5

Wedding photographers, brides, and grooms struggle to find just the right pose that will be distinctive and different.

You can all stop trying now. Photographer Darren Hatt’s effort last weekend can’t be topped. Read more →

Politics

And justice for all

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2017, 12:05 PM Sep 26, 2017
13

The protests surrounding the NFL isn’t about a flag, or an anthem, or a military. It’s about the words that are in the Pledge of Allegiance. Read more →

Sports

Baseball and nachos

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2017, 9:23 AM Sep 26, 2017
9

The Chicago Cubs are one of those teams you want to hate, but can’t.
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Crime and Justice · Regional history

A Minneapolis cop was executed 25 years ago

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2017, 8:37 AM Sep 26, 2017
1

It was 25 years ago that an attempt to quell gang warfare in Minneapolis ended when a gang murdered a cop while he ate pizza during a break in his shift. Read more →

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