Bob CollinsAn encounter with a University of California Berkeley cop may end up being the best thing that ever happened to a man selling hot dogs illegally before a football game.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The fans of the University of Iowa football team started a wave during their game against Iowa State on Saturday Wyoming last week, and this new tradition should stick. At the end of the first quarter, the fans turned and waved at the building next to the stadium, particularly those assembled on the 12th floor, Read more →
In southwestern Minnesota, a Hills- Beaver Creek High School football player was paralyzed while playing in a game against Mountain Lake on Friday night. Read more →
For our occasional series — The Beauty of Disasters — we give you this before-and-after shot from space of the water surrounding Florida. Read more →
Michelle MacDonald had claimed she was endorsed by the Republican Party’s Judicial Selection Committee in her bid for the Minnesota Supreme Court. She wasn’t,even though she was the party’s only candidate in the race to ask for it. Read more →
The TV coverage of Hurricane Irma has renewed the long debate over whether journalists have a responsibility to lead by example, or whether we need the showbiz aspect of their work to understand the story they’re telling. Read more →
Farhan Abdi, a Muslim who works with Somali youth in St. Cloud, has a coffee shop that needed some help, the St. Cloud Times says.
Enter the Lutherans of Sartell. Read more →
It is near impossible to ask how something like the murder-suicide in Orono could happen and who Gina Summers was when happiness existed in her and her family’s life. Not without being accused of forgiving the murder of a child. We get it.
We ask anyway, Read more →
Here’s a political ad — sort of — that won’t have you throwing things at the TV. Read more →
Typically, a lot of light in the sky isn’t conducive to seeing the Northern Lights, so the full (or nearly so) moon would normally be no friend of fans of the cosmos in Minnesota last evening.
Not that it mattered in Paynesville. Read more →
In Florida, the people who aren’t evacuating are preparing to withstand whatever Hurricane Irma has planned for them.
That includes Pam Brekke, of Sanford, who drove 30 miles to a Lowe’s when she heard the store was getting a shipment of 216 generators. Read more →
We’re going to go out on a limb and predict that Bemidji will not be in Minnesota Monthly’s final list of best Minnesota towns, not after a request to compete has caused a kerfuffle over whether the city is ‘Minnesota nice.’ Read more →
It probably felt good for partisans when Sen. Al Franken took a big step toward killing Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras’ appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Political payback feels awesome.
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What are the odds that there is a long-married couple who share the names of two hurricanes, whose story is every bit as compelling as the ones surrounding their meteorological namesakes? Read more →
Hailey Dawson was born with a rare congenital disease called Poland Syndrome, which affects the use of fingers. She was unable to use her right hand — her pitching hand — so the University of Nevada Las Vegas engineering department made her a 3D-printed device.
It worked. And she got a taste for the first pitch when she threw one out at a Baltimore Orioles game two years ago. Read more →