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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Let’s consider the goodness and decency that disappeared from the planet the other night when the bomb exploded at the concert in Manchester. Read more →
Thanks to the creeps among us, these are difficult times for adults who just want to do something for kids. Read more →
The Pipestone Area Schools class of 2017 visited the elementary students today before counting down the final seconds of high school. Read more →
Marty O’Connor’s story is a familiar one. He was left a quadriplegic when he fell down the stairs in 2012. Read more →
The school district says students can rip the page out or they’ll provide a sticker to go over the offensive quote.
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Enes Kanter is from Turkey, an American ally that has given a despot — Recep Tayyip Erdogan — free rein after a failed coup. Tens of thousands of political opponents and journalists have been jailed.
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A teacher in Mount Horeb, Wis., near Madison, is back in the classroom today after being removed for showing her students a film that some people claim showed ‘nude and graphic images.’
All of the images in the film, ‘Miss Representation’, came from prime-time television shows and music videos. Read more →
There’s a mistaken impression that today is the 50th anniversary of the first Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS. It’s not. That comes next February 19th (the first version of what would become Mr. Rogers Neighborhood actually was in 1953). But it’s never not a good day to hold on to the goodness of Fred Rogers. Read more →
In the race to alleviate the suffering of the largest taxpayers, politicians have pledged to protect the most vulnerable. It would have been political suicide to do otherwise. That is no longer the case; quite the opposite, actually.
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Researchers at the University of Georgia are painting a picture of a massive migration in the United States because of climate change.
Their study says nine states will lose population as people flee inland. Read more →
The National Transportation Safety Board says an airline pilot’s low experience flying helicopters probably contributed to a crash at Lino Lakes that killed two people last October.
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Seven years ago next week, Garrett Bazany, then 15, performed a double front flip on his family’s trampoline. He landed on his head and woke up in the hospital, paralyzed from the chest down.
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It was your basic turn-down-the-amps noise call for the cops in Mississauga, Ontario on Saturday night where teenage hard rock band Vinyl Ambush was playing at a party. The party was over for the 75 guests at an outdoor birthday party, or so the band thought. Read more →
Glaydon Iverson was never identified — most of the 400 who were killed on his ship weren’t — until a few months ago, though it was clear he was likely dead, the first Freeborn County casualty of World War II.
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