Bob Collins
I suppose this image in the Star Tribune’s Metro section today was supposed to show us the sheer force of the wind during yesterday’s storms.
Instead, it makes me wonder what you people were thinking? Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Et tu, Delta?
The airline has become the latest underwriter of New York’s Shakespeare in the Park to pull its sponsorship over a production of Julius Caesar.
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A case of clear-cutting trees along the Mississippi River in Crow Wing County shows that times are still pretty good for ‘Mac’ Hammond, the megachurch owner and preacher of the prosperity gospel. Read more →
It’s been hard for people to dismiss or turn away from Nick Briner’s story, which his mother began telling just before he got out of prison last year and she was weighing what to do. People pull for her. People pull for her son. And that’s just how it should be. Read more →
Never underestimate the power of kids to understand the world better than adults sometimes do. Read more →
He had no family to attend the graduation and his friend Keyira Nunn, 17, a junior at the school, was shot and killed in a shooting late last Friday afternoon. She died at the scene.
So yesterday afternoon, a day after arresting a suspect in the killing, the two investigators for the the St. Paul Police Department attended the commencement, accompanied St. Paul Police Senior Cmdr. Tina McNamara, who heads the homicide unit. Read more →
Steve Ross, born in Poland, was in Dachau when it was liberated by American troops. He was 14 and near death when an Army lieutenant jumped from his tank, gave him a hug and some of his food.
It was a brief encounter that propelled Ross to become a social worker in Boston, helping troubled youth. Read more →
Of four people who survived offensive actions by issuing an apology, three survived. All were men. The woman was a different story. Coincidence? Read more →
We’re not proud of the fact that we take a certain satisfaction that in the battle between the Stillwater Lift Bridge and pretty nice boat on the St. Croix River, the bridge won. Read more →
Because you didn’t ask for it, MPR News’ John Wanamaker and I are going to do a Facebook Live discussion today at noon. If you have questions you’d like to ask, don’t post them here. Post them there. We’ll probably do this every Friday to figure out the most undercovered, undermentioned, most interesting stories of Read more →
Minnesota has the fifth-largest highway system in the country, and its citizens have historically hated the idea of tolls, even though every few years someone wants to study the idea Read more →
Howard Husock doesn’t have a lot of friends on the CPB board, especially after his March anti-public media op-ed in the Washington Post, which prompted another CPB member to call him ‘an embarrassment.’ Read more →
The dairy industry in these parts is in rough shape. Milk prices are low and there’s too much of it.
What the industry needs is a little more snootiness. Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League’s John Millea calls our attention to this video from Crookston, where the high school tennis team left for the state tournament. Things like this matters in cities around Minnesota. Read more →
NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep had to defend his network’s choice to interview Iowa Rep. Steve King today. King, who has regularly made racist comments that play well in his blood-red district — where his challenger dropped out of the race last week, citing death threats — is possibly the most extreme of the Read more →