Bob Collins
In lieu of flowers for her father, a daughter recommends people buy baseball tickets instead. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
That was some fun a person had overnight when they invested time and energy and risked their freedom in order to set two tourist and event boats adrift in Superior Bay.
So what if it’s Justin Steinbach’s livelihood, eh, kid?
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It’s 2017 and old sportswriters and sports broadcasters are still railing against mathematics in sports. Here’s the most recent rant, caught on video. Read more →
The media keep misinterpreting data and then blame the data, says Nate Silver.
It’s not just hurricanes. It was also Hillary Clinton.
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Ginger Breitzman, 44, a Wisconsin mother, yelled at her son after he burned some popcorn. Her tirade included a generous helping of obscenities.
Is she protected by the First Amendment? Read more →
Along the lakes of Minnesota, the cabins are growing and, in one case, the neighbors are suing. Now, a judge has ordered the destruction of a lake home. Read more →
In putting together his Vietnam War series over a 10-year period, filmmaker Ken Burns said he hopes to start a national conversation on the war. That hasn’t happened yet, although we’re only three episodes in (the entire series is online). Critics have applauded the series but, anecdotally, the buzz hasn’t taken hold.
It’s not because people aren’t watching.
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In happened in the bottom of the fifth inning of the game and the players were so shaken, the game had to be stopped for awhile.
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We’re three episodes in to Ken Burns’ outstanding series, The Vietnam War, and among the more compelling debates to come from its airing is the question of whether there really is no such thing as a ‘single truth’ in war. Read more →
There was a forehead-slapping moment last week when NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed one of its reporters about Facebook’s ad-targeting program which allowed advertisers to target anti-Semitics in the audience. Read more →
Near Nerstrand, Minn., last evening, Sawyer Ruby Rose Hanson, 4, was playing in her front yard when she followed a cat into a field. She disappeared. Read more →
Truthfully, we’re not exactly sure what Appleton, Wis., police officer Jack Taschner was doing when he walked into the stands at the high school football game last Friday night. Read more →
You know who is doing a better job of covering the Cassidy-Graham bill to repeal health care for Americans than many news organizations? Late night comedians. They’re at least paying attention to it. Read more →
It’s what you do when you think no one is watching. But Cass Mundy, of Fargo, was watching the other night in the heavy rain, even though she didn’t get much of a picture.
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Charlotte Bleistein, 102, of Greendale, Wis., has died. Earlier this year she got a little regional fame because she had started taking up yoga, as profiled by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Jim Stingl. She had more time for it once she gave up her career as a lawyer after a traffic accident at age 96. Read more →