Bob Collins
If you buy season tickets to your favorite NFL team, but sell them all, should you still be allowed to buy them again? Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
What’s in a brand? The difference in how you hear something, at least where a violin is concerned. Read more →
The ‘cops rescuing ducklings’ season is officially underway with yesterday’s rescue of a squadron from a storm sewer in St. Louis Park, where the police department reported the details on its Facebook page. Read more →
Sometimes the dramatic moment captured by news photographers isn’t really the actual moment. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today reinstated a hunter’s lawsuit against the owner of property on which he was hunting, whom he says is responsible for his falling from a tree while trying to climb into a deer stand in Pine County.
The hunter’s father owns the property. Read more →
Not surprisingly, last week’s multiple posts about the racists who attend games at Boston’s Fenway Park brought out the commenters who view these sorts of things as assaults on free speech.
They’re probably racist too, a study released last week from the University of Kansas says.
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In Madison Wis., parents have gotten messages from school authorities that if they’re on a limited data plan, their kids might soon be driving up the usage. The schools are shutting down the Wi-Fi to see if student performance improves.
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Here’s a pro tip for a happier life: Stop talking politics in social settings. Nothing good can come of it. Let’s just go back to talking about the weather. Or fishing. Read more →
Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras, a Tim Pawlenty appointee, is heading for the federal bench now that President Donald Trump has nominated him for for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read more →
School officials in Minnesota and around the country have warned parents to talk to their kids about the Netflix series, ’13 Reasons Why.’ A Catholic school in Canada has warned its students not to talk about the series at all.
In Michigan, some students have a better idea.
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When police in Ferguson, Missouri launched tear gas into the crowd protesting the police shooting there in 2014, Edward Crawford, then 25, went for a cannister and threw it back and kept ahold of his bag of chips.
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We’ll cop to swearing as much as the next blogger, but Kraft Macaroni and Cheese’s new campaign to capitalize on America’s most overrated ‘holiday’ is making us blush a bit.
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It’s a shameful feeling you might get when you read the story of Brian Johnson and his friends, who are surrounded by old bikes in the woods along the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wis. Read more →
Souen ‘Posy’ Chheng was put on a flight to Cambodia yesterday, the West Central Tribune reports. He’s never been to Cambodia. He has no family there. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after his family fled the killing fields of Cambodia.
He leaves behind the son who was born five days ago, his wife, his mother, two sisters, and a brother living in the Twin Cities.
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After the uproar this week when a player for the Baltimore Orioles reported he was the target of racist epithets at Boston’s Fenway Park, some fans gave Adam Jones a standing ovation the next night.
Heartwarming stuff. Everything cool now?
Nope. You can’t clap racism away. Read more →