Bob Collins
The motorcycle company needed a town to use for a promotion showing how easy it is to learn to ride a motorcycle. The town’s water tower needed a coat of paint. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
‘We wanted to bring something cool to amateur soccer that would bring some attention to what we’re doing,’ a player said. It worked. Read more →
Cody Nelson“It’s called the feeling of freedom,” Jesse “The Body” Ventura barks into the mic, atop his motorcycle. “Everyone in the world should experience freedom, and you get it on the open road.” That’s the opening of the trailer for his upcoming program for RT, Russia’s state-sponsored media outlet. It’s called “The World According to Jesse.” Read more →
Mike Oblinski, a Phoenix-based photographer and storm chaser, says he doesn’t usually put out any video of his storm-chasing until the season is over. But he made an exception when he was in North Dakota last Friday evening. Read more →
Over the last several years, General Mills’ Cheerios brand has carved out a nice reputation for itself with marketing that stresses, shall we say, more modern-day values.
Advertisements weren’t afraid of multi-cultural families, for example.
Now a new ad, debuting this week, is getting attention for take the theme deeper with rapid-fire multi-culturalism. Read more →
When Harrison Rund was stopped by a Minnesota state trooper in 2014 who searched his trunk and found marijuana, he made a big mistake.
He went home, started drinking, and then went on Twitter. Read more →
It would appear that in at least one Georgia community, the Constitution isn’t highly regarded, so some of the students at a high school are going to provide a lesson plan.
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Ryan Strnad isn’t limiting his campaign to the Milwaukee stadium; he thinks sports fans everywhere should pay a little more attention to the working stiffs in the stands. Read more →
Cloquet Police Chief Steve Stracek must have done something wrong or he’d probably still have a job. What did he do? Nobody will ever know because state law shields the City Council from revealing the rift between the police chief and his officers.
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If you happen to be having a lot of indifferent feelings right now about people’s disconnection from each other, follow Officer Tommy Norman. Read more →
Packers cornerback Davon House landed at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport and his connecting flight to Green Bay was canceled. He put a call out to local Packer fans. Read more →
It’s not that I don’t honor the unimaginable courage — and acknowledge the unimaginable fear — of those who stormed the beaches, it’s just the feeling that it’s far easier for the nation to recognize the events of World War II than it is to acknowledge Vietnam. Read more →
The Ogden (Utah) Raptors have apparently had second thoughts about its ‘Hourglass Appreciation Night’, a promotion that offended everyone but the knucklehead who conceived it. Read more →
The Duluth News Tribune reports that someone posted a Snapchat message encouraging people to violate the school’s dress code. The crackdown targeted mostly girls whose shorts or dresses didn’t reach mid-thigh or whose bra straps were exposed. Read more →
Mili Hernandez is 8 years old, loves soccer, has short hair and looks like a boy, so she and her team were kicked out of a girls soccer tournament in Nebraska on Sunday.
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