Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Yesterday, the auctioneer showed up in Arkansaw, Wisc., — near Durand in Pepin County — and by lunch, 62 cows at Patnode Lane Holsteins were gone. Weston and Jenni Patnode were out of business after four generations on the land. Read more →
There are times when we wish the news given to us was fake, but, sadly, today’s blockbuster from the Washington Post is not. Read more →
It’s not hard to figure out why the Minnesota Department of Transportation desecrated a cemetery when working on Minnesota Highway 23? MnDOT says in five years of planning for the replacement of the Mission Creek Bridge in Duluth, there was no part of the process that called for consulting with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Read more →
Marvin Wright, of Southwest Edgecombe High in Pinetops, N.C., showed why he’s the president of his graduating class when he told school administrators through his actions what they could do with the speech they told him to deliver instead of the one he wrote. Read more →
The Owatonna area is one of the first out-state communities to participate in a push to get people to complete advance directives. But only about 10 percent of people have advance directives, guidelines for dying, in their medical files, according to David Albrecht, president of Owatonna Hospital.
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Is there a language that’s too strong to use when condemning white supremacy?
The Southern Baptists thought so this week until yesterday when they formally condemned ‘”every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as of the devil.’ Read more →
The economy is garbage, except on paper, for many people but Fed Chair Janet Yellen pushed for the rate increase saying the fundamentals of the U.S. economy warrant it. She sees it as a way to keep inflation at bay.
Neel Kashkari sees a different economy, which is interesting because the economy of Minnesota and surrounding states has been better than the rest of the country. Read more →
If it wasn’t for Noah Nathan, we wouldn’t have this video of this morning’s shooting at the Republican softball practice.
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Chris Singleton, the centerfielder for Charleston Southern University batted .276 with four homers this season. Those aren’t exactly eye-popping numbers for an outfielder. But Singleton has other things to focus on, too. He has to care for his younger siblings, Camryn and Caleb, because two years ago tomorrow, Dylan Roof executed their mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and eight others in a church in an effort to start a race war. Read more →
A community group formed to bring TV to the rural area says it decided to stop relying only on Orr property tax assessments to function. It has previously also gotten support from neighboring Leiding, Minn., which stopped contributing in 2012. Read more →
Something unusual happened on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives late this morning.
Democrats and Republicans stood in a show of unity in the aftermath of what increasingly appears to be a politically motivated attack on members of Congress this morning. Read more →
There is only one state in the Union that doesn’t recognize Veterans Day as an official state holiday. It’s you, Wisconsin.
Maybe that’ll change.
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The shooting occurred one day before the annual Congressional Baseball Game, the event, which started in 1909, that always gives us hope that perhaps warring factions can put political differences aside for a greater good. In the past, these sorts of things might make the country step back and perhaps even draw closer.
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‘I do not believe we send our young minds to be victimized to read such immoral drivel,’ Carrol Sarsland wrote in his formal request to ban ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.’
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