Bob CollinsTanitoluwa Adewumi and his family won’t be homeless much longer now that the New York Times has publicized his achievement: At 8, he’s just won his division in the New York State chess championship. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Only 22 percent of eligible households in North Dakota, and just 32 percent of eligible households in Minnesota, take advantage of the program, the Fargo Forum reports today. Read more →
Leaders console us by consoling others. Read more →
Robert Koehler, 56, of Cambria, Wis., is this week’s poster child for the drinking-and-driving habits of the Upper Midwest. Read more →
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Judging by the news of the last few days, it’s clear that — at least for the moment — humans are incapable of providing our daily dose of sweetness, so we’re turning to Kratu, the rescue dog, who was entered in Crufts, billed as the ‘world’s greatest dog show’ in the UK. Read more →
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was short and to the point in ruling this week that giving the finger to a cop is free speech and you can’t be pulled over for doing so. Read more →
Behold the sweetness of a guilty conscience!
Someone crossed the border — apparently from the Minnesota side — into Ontario near the Pigeon River border checkpoint and didn’t declare an item to customs.
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The current field of 15 Democrats is the most diverse in history, it notes — two African-Americans, five women, a Latino, an Asian-American, and a gay man.
But those white guys. Read more →
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Baseball doesn’t quite understand — or isn’t willing to understand — why many people have given up on it. Read more →
Dr. McGreggor Crowley, who once was on the selection battleground at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks a truth that many people don’t want to acknowledge in the wake of the scandal this week that the rich and famous are buying their kids’ way into elite schools: you don’t have to be rich and famous to be overinvested in the college selection process. Read more →
It was a puzzling moment for me a few years ago at Mayo Clinic when I walked into a waiting room, only to see Fox News on the TV. You either love the channel or hate it — just like MSNBC — but it’s inarguable that businesses who insist on a channel for political partisans risk alienating customers who are not of that faith. Businesses taking sides seems bad for business. Read more →
3.14. It’s “Pi Day”. Perhaps you’ve heard. We look forward to this day so much because Vi Hart hates Pi Day, and annually rails about it with a video.
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